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Y. C. Fu
Researcher at University of Cincinnati
Publications - 5
Citations - 244
Y. C. Fu is an academic researcher from University of Cincinnati. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biofilm & Respiration rate. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications receiving 232 citations.
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Competition in biofilms
TL;DR: Experiments showed that competition in biofilms resulted in non-uniform spatial distributions of bacterial populations and metabolically active bacteria, which affected the substrate transfer and substrate competition within the biofilm.
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Transport and biodegradation of toxic organics in biofilms
Tian C. Zhang,Y. C. Fu,Paul L. Bishop,Margaret J. Kupferle,Sean W. FitzGerald,Henry Hongshen Jiang,Christopher Harmer +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, three lab-scale rotating drum biofilm reactors (RDBRs) were used to culture the biofilms, and microelectrodes and a microslicing technique have been used to elucidate changes in the structure of bio-films with depth and to determine the influence of these changes on mass transport and transformation processes.
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Determination of effective oxygen diffusivity in biofilms grown in a completely mixed biodrum reactor
TL;DR: In this paper, the diffusivity of each layer was estimated using an explicit finite-difference method, and the results showed that the distribution of the biofilm effective oxygen diffusivities varies from 25% D w at the substrate of a biofilm to 90% D W at the surface of a single layer.
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An Inhibition Study of the Effect of Azo Dyes on Bioactivity of Biofilms
TL;DR: An inhibition study showed that toxic compounds caused two responses when present at low concentration; one is stimulation of the biomass by simply serving as an energy source; this caused an increase in the total respiration rate.
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The evaluation of respiration rate in fixed-film systems under various organic loading rates
Y. C. Fu,Paul L. Bishop +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between organic loading and respiration rate was evaluated using oxygen microprofiles, and it was shown that an increase in oxygen supplied increased only the respiratory rate and did not affect the overall COD use rate.