TY - BOOK AU - Abdelsalam Ahmed Mohamed Elawwad AU - Heinz Koeser , AU - Hisham Abdelhalim , AU - Maged Mahmoud Hamed , TI - Effect of start-up and starvation conditions on the nitrification process in aerated submerged fixed bed biofilm reactors SFBBRs / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Abdelsalam Ahmed Mohamed Elawwad , KW - Nitrification KW - SFBBR KW - Wastewater N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Civil Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - This study focuses on the improvement of the operation and understanding of the behavior of submerged fixed-bed biofilm reactors (SFBBRs) as a nitrification process. Two issues were studied in this thesis: the start-up and the starvation of nitrifying biofilms. To achieve the objectives of this thesis, acrated two-stages bench-scale SFBBRs were operated over one year at 20{u00B0}C ER -