A bioreactor which is used to treat wastewater that utterly lacks dissolved oxygen; in it, faculatively anaerobic microbes are able to oxidize the sewage because they use nitrate ions as their oxygen source.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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