Preisser, MatthewNewhart, KateCath, Tzahi2017-07-272022-02-032017-07-272022-02-03https://hdl.handle.net/11124/171212http://dx.doi.org/10.25676/11124/171212Decentralized biological wastewater treatment has the potential to help communities conserve water and energy resources by tailoring effluent water quality for reuse closer to the point of generation. Because distributed wastewater treatment plants generally have a lower buffering capacity, pollutants pose a greater threat to the microbial community, which can greatly affect the quality of effluent water. Nitrification and denitrification are essential processes of biological wastewater treatment for the conversion of nitrogen from ammonium to atmospheric N2. This project examines and quantifies the effects of a known nitrification inhibition compound to be better able to develop an early fault detection program that utilizes multivariate statistical analysis to allow a treatment plant to operate at optimal conditions.postersengCopyright of the original work is retained by the author.Text