title: Monitoring of biofilm reactors using natural fluorescence fingerprints.
abstract: Natural fluorescence as a method to monitor biofilm processes was studied, using the example of an extractive membrane bioreactor for the degradation of 3-chloro-4 methylaniline and 1,2-dichloroethane. Non-invasive, on-line, in-situ 2D fluorometry monitoring was employed to elicit biofilm process status. The fluorescence fingerprints were deconvoluted in a pattern recognition approach using artificial neural networks (ANN) through association with key process performance parameters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry-COFB, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-616 Caparica, Portugal. gwolf@dq.fct.unl.pt
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wolf
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Crespo
authors.forename: M A M
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Reis
mesh_terms: D018441:Biofilms; D019149:Bioreactors; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D005453:Fluorescence; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer