The significance of the biomass subfraction of high-MW organic carbon for the microbial growth and maintenance potential of disinfectant-free drinking water produced from surface water
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Keywords
biological stability, microbial growth potential, microbial biomass, biopolymers, biomass maintenance, surface water treatment
Abbreviations
AOC
Assimilable Organic Carbon
AOC-A3
slowly biodegradable biopolymeric AOC (bioassay) (µg biopolymer mix-C/L)
AOC-P17/NOX
low molecular weight, easily biodegradable AOC (bioassay) (µg acetate-C/L)
ATP
Adenosine tri phosphate
ATP0, ATPmin, ATPmax
initial, minimum and maximum ATP concentration observed during the BPP-incubation (ng/L)
BACF
Biological Activated Carbon Filtration
BPC14
Cumulative Biomass Production in the 14-day BPP-incubation (ng.d/L)
BPP
Biomass Production Potential (bioassay)
Cg
OC consumption by microbial biomass growth during BPP-incubation (µg/L)
Cm
OC consumption by microbial biomass maintenance during BPP-incubation (µg/L)
kDa
kilo Dalton = 1000 Da (g/mol)
LC-OCD
Liquid Chromatography – Organic Carbon Detection
mD
biomass specific daily OC consumption for maintenance (µg nutrient-C/(d.µg biomass-C))
MGP
Microbial Growth Potential
OC
Organic Carbon
R2
Coefficient of determination (–)
RP
Pearson correlation coefficient (–)
RS
Spearman-rho correlation coefficient (–)
S…
Supplementary Information (Figure or Table followed by number)
TOC
Total Organic Carbon (mg/L)
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