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Advances in Microbial Ecology pp 169–200Cite as

Ecological Aspects of Biological Phosphorus Removal in Activated Sludge Systems

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Abstract

Inorganic polyphosphate (poly-P) is a linear polymer of many tens or hundreds of inorganic phosphate (Pi) residues linked by high-energy phosphoanhydride bonds (Fig. 1) and usually consists of mixtures of different molecular sizes. Thermodynamically the standard free energy of hydrolysis of the anhydride linkage yields about 38 kJ per phosphate bond at pH 5. The energy storage function of poly-P depends on the ability of the bond cleavage reaction to effect phosphorylation and thereby conserve the energy associated with the hydrolytic action (Dawes, 1990).

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    Cornelus F. C. Bonting, Ed W. J. van Niel & Hendrik J. Van Veen

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Kortstee, G.J.J., Appeldoorn, K.J., Bonting, C.F.C., van Niel, E.W.J., Van Veen, H.J. (2000). Ecological Aspects of Biological Phosphorus Removal in Activated Sludge Systems. In: Schink, B. (eds) Advances in Microbial Ecology. Advances in Microbial Ecology, vol 16. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4187-5_5

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