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Measuring Microbial Activity in Wastewater

by Erik Rumbaugh | Aug 1, 2024 | Wastewater Monitoring, Wastewater Procedure, Wastewater Testing

Wastewater MLSS or MLVSS is often call the โ€œmicrobesโ€ or amount of working biomass in a treatment system. However, MLVSS is just the weight of volatile solids in the system rather than any direct measure of living/working biomass. MLVSS consists of living and dead...

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