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863
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2008.04.005
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procbio.2011.09.007
Lin Y, de Kreuk M, Van Loosdrecht M, Adin A (2010) Characterization of alginate-like
exopolysaccharides isolated from aerobic granular sludge in pilot-plant. Water Res 44
(11):3355–3364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2010.03.019
Liu Y, Liu Q-S (2006) Causes and control of filamentous growth in aerobic granular sludge
sequencing batch reactors. Biotechnol Adv 24(1):115–127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.
biotechadv.2005.08.001
Liu Y, Tay J-H (2002) The essential role of hydrodynamic shear force in the formation of biofilm
and granular sludge. Water Res 36(7):1653–1665. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0043-1354(01)
00379-7
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dye on the performance of an aerobic granular sludge sequencing batch reactor treating a
simulated textile wastewater. Water Res 85:327–336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2015.
08.043
Gao D, Liu L, Liang H, Wu W-M (2011) Aerobic granular sludge: characterization, mechanism of
granulation and application to wastewater treatment. Crit Rev Biotechnol 31(2):137–152.
https://doi.org/10.3109/07388551.2010.497961
Ghangrekar M, Asolekar S, Joshi S (2005) Characteristics of sludge developed under different
loading conditions during UASB reactor start-up and granulation. Water Res 39(6):1123–1133.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2004.12.018
Ghosh S, Chakraborty S (2019) Influence of inoculum variation on formation and stability of
aerobic granules in oily wastewater treatment. J Environ Manag 248:109239. https://doi.org/10.
1016/j.jenvman.2019.07.010
Ghosh S, Chakraborty S (2020) Impacts of hydraulic retention time on granule behaviour and
reactor activity during hydrocarbon degradation in aerobic granular reactors (AGRs) with
phytotoxicity analysis. Int Biodeterior Biodegradation 151:104963
Gobi K, Mashitah M, Vadivelu V (2011) Development and utilization of aerobic granules for the
palm oil mill (POM) wastewater treatment. Chem Eng J 174(1):213–220. https://doi.org/10.
1016/j.cej.2011.09.002
Hailei W, Guangli Y, Guosheng L, Feng P (2006) A new way to cultivate aerobic granules in the
process of papermaking wastewater treatment. Biochem Eng J 28(1):99–103. https://doi.org/10.
1016/j.bej.2005.10.002
Jang A, Yoon Y-H, Kim IS, Kim K-S, Bishop PL (2003) Characterization and evaluation of aerobic
granules in sequencing batch reactor. J Biotechnol 105(1–2):71–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/
S0168-1656(03)00142-1
Jiang H-L, Tay J-H, Liu Y, Tay ST-L (2003) Ca
2+ augmentation for enhancement of aerobically
grown microbial granules in sludge blanket reactors. Biotechnol Lett 25(2):95–99. https://doi.
org/10.1023/A:1021967914544
Kent TR, Bott CB, Wang ZW (2018) State of the art of aerobic granulation in continuous flow
bioreactors. Biotechnol Adv 36(4):1139–1166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2018.03.
015
Khan F, Zain Khan M, Qamar Usmani S, Sabir S (2009) Biodegradation of phenol by aerobic
granulation technology. Water Sci Technol 59(2):273–278. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2009.
863
Kong Y, Liu Y-Q, Tay J-H, Wong F-S, Zhu J (2009) Aerobic granulation in sequencing batch
reactors with different reactor height/diameter ratios. Enzym Microb Technol 45(5):379–383.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enzmictec.2009.06.014
Lemaire R, Webb RI, Yuan Z (2008) Micro-scale observations of the structure of aerobic microbial
granules used for the treatment of nutrient-rich industrial wastewater. ISME J 2(5):528–541
Li Y, Liu Y, Shen L, Chen F (2008) DO diffusion profile in aerobic granule and its microbiological
implications. Enzym Microb Technol 43(4–5):349–354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enzmictec.
2008.04.005
Li A-j, Li X-y, H-q Y (2011) Effect of the food-to-microorganism (F/M) ratio on the formation and
size of aerobic sludge granules. Process Biochem 46(12):2269–2276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.
procbio.2011.09.007
Lin Y, de Kreuk M, Van Loosdrecht M, Adin A (2010) Characterization of alginate-like
exopolysaccharides isolated from aerobic granular sludge in pilot-plant. Water Res 44
(11):3355–3364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2010.03.019
Liu Y, Liu Q-S (2006) Causes and control of filamentous growth in aerobic granular sludge
sequencing batch reactors. Biotechnol Adv 24(1):115–127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.
biotechadv.2005.08.001
Liu Y, Tay J-H (2002) The essential role of hydrodynamic shear force in the formation of biofilm
and granular sludge. Water Res 36(7):1653–1665. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0043-1354(01)
00379-7
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