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Record W88025181 · doi:10.2175/106143009x442943

Effect of Aging, Time, and Temperature on Fecal Coliform Counts during Centrifugal Dewatering and Role of Centrate in Growth Inhibition

2009· article· en· W88025181 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueWater Environment Research · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicCoagulation and Flocculation Studies
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaU.S. Environmental Protection Agency
KeywordsDewateringFecal coliformFecesBacteriaBacterial growthChemistryFood scienceMicrobiologyPulp and paper industryBiologyEnvironmental chemistryEcologyWater quality

Abstract

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Recent studies have reported significant increases in fecal coliform counts in anaerobically digested sludge soon after centrifuge dewatering. The reasons behind these increases are not yet understood. This study investigated the role of inhibitor substances on the reactivation and regrowth of sludge bacteria and the effect of storage time and temperature on their growth behavior. The study consisted of full- and laboratory-scale testing, and quantified the microbiological and chemical characteristics of sludge, cake, and centrate samples under different temperatures and aging times. Significant reactivation was not observed at the treatment plants tested. Results showed that the regrowth phenomenon is not observed for all sludges, and differences in sludge characteristics and treatment processes may play a role in determining the regrowth behavior of sludge. Centrate collected from one of the treatment plants had an inhibitory effect on the growth of fecal coliform and was four times more toxic than cake to the bacteria. Chemical analyses of the centrate identified sulfide as one of the possible inhibitory compounds. The results also showed that fecal coliform have different growth and survival behavior compared to other sludge bacteria.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.357
Threshold uncertainty score0.325

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.247
Teacher spread0.241 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it