screens and grit traps, followed by a biological treatment in a UASB reactor and a sub-surface horizontal flow phytodepuration … step. The use of a UASB reactor equipped with a top cover, as well as of the phytodepuration process employing a porous … efficiencies of 98.8% for fecal coliforms and 97.9% for fecal <i>enterococci</i> were achieved. The UASB reactor showed an …

and an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor. The two-stage system was efficient for the digestion of blue … mussels was easily solubilised in the leach bed reactor and the soluble organic materials were rapidly converted in the UASB … reactor from which 68% of the methane was produced. However, the digestion of mussels including shells gave low production …

cultivated in an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis demonstrates … granules were formed, the microbial community structure in the UASB reactor tends to stabilize. The dominant bacterium in the …