Phosphate in wastewater effluent is implicated in eutrophication of water reserves. Enhanced biological phosphate removal by activated sludge is attributed to polyphosphate accumulating bacteria, which release phosphate ...

In this study, different carbon source profiles were generated by inoculating Biolog GN microwell plates, with different dilutions of microbial communities from a number of activated sludge systems. This led to the successful ...

The diversity and dynamics of microbial communities of phosphorus-removing and non-phosphorus-removing activated sludge systems have mostly been analysed by culture-dependent methods. A more direct method is the isolation ...