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Liu J, Huang X, Jiang X, Qing C, Li Y, Xia P. Loss of submerged macrophytes in shallow lakes alters bacterial and archaeal community structures, and reduces their co-occurrence networks connectivity and complexity. Front Microbiol 2024; 15:1380805. [PMID: 38601927 PMCID: PMC11004660 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1380805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2024] [Accepted: 03/12/2024] [Indexed: 04/12/2024] Open
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Introduction Bacteria and archaea are important components in shallow lake ecosystems and are crucial for biogeochemical cycling. While the submerged macrophyte loss is widespread in shallow lakes, the effect on the bacteria and archaea in the sediment and water is not yet widely understood. Methods In this study, 16S rRNA gene sequencing was used to explore the bacteria and archaea in samples taken from the sediment and water in the submerged macrophyte abundant (MA) and submerged macrophyte loss (ML) areas of Caohai Lake, Guizhou, China. Results The results showed that the dominant bacterial phyla were Proteobacteria and Chloroflexi in the sediment; the dominant phyla were Proteobacteria, Actinobacteriota, and Bacteroidota in the water. The dominant archaea in sediment and water were the same, in the order of Crenarchaeota, Thermoplasmatota, and Halobacterota. Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) analyses showed that bacterial and archaeal community structures in the water were significantly affected by the loss of submerged macrophytes, but not by significant changes in the sediment. This suggests that the loss of submerged macrophytes has a stronger effect on the bacterial and archaeal community structures in water than in sediment. Furthermore, plant biomass (PB) was the key factor significantly influencing the bacterial community structure in water, while total nitrogen (TN) was the main factor significantly influencing the archaeal community structure in water. The loss of submerged macrophytes did not significantly affect the alpha diversity of the bacterial and archaeal communities in either the sediment or water. Based on network analyses, we found that the loss of submerged macrophytes reduced the connectivity and complexity of bacterial patterns in sediment and water. For archaea, network associations were stronger for MA network than for ML network in sediment, but network complexity for archaea in water was not significantly different between the two areas. Discussion This study assesses the impacts of submerged macrophyte loss on bacteria and archaea in lakes from microbial perspective, which can help to provide further theoretical basis for microbiological research and submerged macrophytes restoration in shallow lakes.
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- Jiahui Liu
- Guizhou Province Key Laboratory for Information System of Mountainous Areas and Protection of Ecological Environment, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China
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- Guizhou Province Key Laboratory for Information System of Mountainous Areas and Protection of Ecological Environment, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China
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- Guizhou Province Key Laboratory for Information System of Mountainous Areas and Protection of Ecological Environment, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China
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- Guizhou Province Key Laboratory for Information System of Mountainous Areas and Protection of Ecological Environment, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China
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- Guizhou Caohai National Nature Reserve Management Committee, Bijie, Guizhou, China
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- Guizhou Province Key Laboratory for Information System of Mountainous Areas and Protection of Ecological Environment, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China
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Jiao G, Huang Y, Dai H, Gou H, Li Z, Shi H, Yang J, Ni S. Responses of rhizosphere microbial community structure and metabolic function to heavy metal coinhibition. ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH 2023; 45:6177-6198. [PMID: 37269417 DOI: 10.1007/s10653-023-01626-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2022] [Accepted: 05/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Metal mineral mining results in releases of large amounts of heavy metals into the environment, and it is necessary to better understand the response of rhizosphere microbial communities to simultaneous stress from multiple heavy metals (HMs), which directly impacts plant growth and human health. In this study, by adding different concentrations of cadmium (Cd) to a soil with high background concentrations of vanadium (V) and chromium (Cr), the growth of maize during the jointing stage was explored under limiting conditions. High-throughput sequencing was used to explore the response and survival strategies of rhizosphere soil microbial communities to complex HM stress. The results showed that complex HMs inhibited the growth of maize at the jointing stage, and the diversity and abundance of maize rhizosphere soil microorganisms were significantly different at different metal enrichment levels. In addition, according to the different stress levels, the maize rhizosphere attracted many tolerant colonizing bacteria, and cooccurrence network analysis showed that these bacteria interacted very closely. The effects of residual heavy metals on beneficial microorganisms (such as Xanthomonas, Sphingomonas, and lysozyme) were significantly stronger than those of bioavailable metals and soil physical and chemical properties. PICRUSt analysis revealed that the different forms of V and Cd had significantly greater effects on microbial metabolic pathways than all forms of Cr. Cr mainly affected the two major metabolic pathways: microbial cell growth and division and environmental information transmission. In addition, significant differences in rhizosphere microbial metabolism under different concentrations were found, and this can serve as a reference for subsequent metagenomic analysis. This study is helpful for exploring the threshold for the growth of crops in toxic HM soils in mining areas and achieving further biological remediation.
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- Ganghui Jiao
- College of Geosciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Sichuan, 610059, China
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- College of Geosciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Sichuan, 610059, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection, College of Ecology and Environment, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection, College of Ecology and Environment, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China
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- College of Geosciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Sichuan, 610059, China
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- College of Geosciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Sichuan, 610059, China
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- College of Geosciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Sichuan, 610059, China
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- College of Architecture and Environment, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China
- Yibin Institute of Industrial Technology, Sichuan University Yibin Park, Yibin, 644000, China
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- College of Geosciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Sichuan, 610059, China
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Mondal T, Choudhury M, Kundu D, Dutta D, Samanta P. Landfill: An eclectic review on structure, reactions and remediation approach. WASTE MANAGEMENT (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2023; 164:127-142. [PMID: 37054538 DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2023.03.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2022] [Revised: 02/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Since the enactment of the Clean Water Act (1972), which was supplemented by increased accountability under Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Subtitle D (1991) and the Clean Air Act Amendments (1996), landfills have indeed been widely used all around the world for treating various wastes. The landfill's biological and biogeochemical processes are believed to be originated about 2 to 4 decades ago. Scopus and web of Science based bibliometric study reveals that there are few papers available in scientific domain. Further, till today not a single paper demonstrated the detailed landfills heterogenicity, chemistry and microbiological processes and their associated dynamics in a combined approach. Accordingly, the paper addresses the recent applications of cutting-edge biogeochemical and biological methods adopted by different countries to sketch an emerging perspective of landfill biological and biogeochemical reactions and dynamics. Additionally, the significance of several regulatory factors controlling the landfill's biogeochemical and biological processes is highlighted. Finally, this article emphasizes the future opportunities for integrating advanced techniques to explain landfill chemistry explicitly. In conclusion, this paper will provide a comprehensive vision of the diverse dimensions of landfill biological and biogeochemical reactions and dynamics to the scientific world and policymakers.
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- Tridib Mondal
- Department of Chemistry, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, University of North Bengal, Dhupguri 735210, West Bengal, India
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- Environmental Research and Management Division, Voice of Environment (VoE), Guwahati - 781034, Assam, India.
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- Waste Re-processing Division, CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur 440 020, India
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, SRM University-AP, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh 522 240, India
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- Department of Environmental Science, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, University of North Bengal, Dhupguri 735210, West Bengal, India.
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Xu R, Zhang W, Fu Y, Fan F, Zhou Z, Chen J, Liu W, Meng F. The positive roles of influent species immigration in mitigating membrane fouling in membrane bioreactors treating municipal wastewater. WATER RESEARCH 2023; 235:119907. [PMID: 37001232 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.119907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2022] [Revised: 03/18/2023] [Accepted: 03/21/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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The influence of influent species immigration (ISI) on membrane fouling behaviors of membrane bioreactors (MBRs) treating municipal wastewater remains elusive, leading to an incomprehensive understanding of fouling ecology in MBRs. To address this issue, two anoxic/aerobic MBRs, which were fed with raw (named MBR-C) and sterilized (MBR-E) municipal wastewater, were operated. Compared with the MBR-E, the average fouling rate of the MBR-C was lowered by 30% over the long-term operation. In addition, the MBR-E sludge had significantly higher unified membrane fouling index and biofilm formation potential than the MBR-C sludge. Considerably larger flocs size and lower soluble microbial products (SMP) concentrations were observed in the MBR-C than in the MBR-E. Moreover, the 16S rRNA gene sequencing results showed that highly diverse and abundant populations responsible for floc-forming, hydrolysis/fermentation and SMP degradation readily inhabited the influent, shaping a unique microbial niche. Based on species mass balance-based assessment, most of these populations were nongrowing and their relative abundances were higher in the MBR-C than in the MBR-E. This suggested an important contribution of the ISI on the assemblage of these bacteria, thus supporting the increased flocs size and lowered SMP concentrations in the MBR-C. Moreover, the SMP-degrading related bacteria and functional pathways played a more crucial role in the MBR-C ecosystem as revealed by the bacterial co-occurrence network and Picrust2 analysis. Taken together, this study reveals the positive role of ISI in fouling mitigation and highlights the necessity for incorporating influent wastewater communities for fouling control in MBR plants.
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- Ronghua Xu
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology (Sun Yat-sen University), Guangzhou, 510275, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology (Sun Yat-sen University), Guangzhou, 510275, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology (Sun Yat-sen University), Guangzhou, 510275, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China; Advanced Institute of Natural Sciences, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, Zhuhai, 519087, China.
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- Zhuhai Urban Drainage Co., Ltd., Zhuhai, 519000, China
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- Zhuhai Urban Drainage Co., Ltd., Zhuhai, 519000, China
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- Zhuhai Water Environment Holdings Group Ltd., Zhuhai, 519000, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology (Sun Yat-sen University), Guangzhou, 510275, China.
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Jiang M, Ji S, Wu R, Yang H, Li YY, Liu J. Exploiting refractory organic matter for advanced nitrogen removal from mature landfill leachate via anammox in an expanded granular sludge bed reactor. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2023; 371:128594. [PMID: 36634882 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.128594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2022] [Revised: 12/31/2022] [Accepted: 01/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Anammox is an efficient low-carbon nitrogen removal technology for mature landfill leachate (MLL). However, it produces 11 % nitrate theoretically, which needs further removal. In this study, the mechanisms of exploiting refractory organic matter (ROM) from an MLL as an inner carbon source for advanced nitrogen removal via anammox were systematically analyzed, and the effects of hydraulic retention time on nitrogen and ROM removal/utilization were investigated. Without any external carbon source, a total nitrogen and organic carbon removal efficiency of 94.50 % and 27.12 %, respectively, were achieved, with a nitrogen loading rate of 2.4 kg N/(m3·d). The abundances of norank_f_norank_o_SBR1031, OLB13, and norank_f_A4b, which had the capacity to degrade ROM, increased from 21.63 % to 49.21 %. This study reveals that the ROM in an MLL can be exploited for synchronous advanced nitrogen and organic matter removal.
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- Mengting Jiang
- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, 333 Nanchen Road, Shanghai 200444, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, 333 Nanchen Road, Shanghai 200444, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, 333 Nanchen Road, Shanghai 200444, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, 333 Nanchen Road, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-06 Aza, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, 333 Nanchen Road, Shanghai 200444, China.
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Li J, Liu X, Zhu C, Song T, Chen Z, Jin S, Geng B. Bacterial dynamics and functions driven by biomass wastes to promote rural toilet blackwater absorption and recycling in an ectopic fermentation system. CHEMOSPHERE 2023; 316:137804. [PMID: 36632956 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.137804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2022] [Revised: 11/06/2022] [Accepted: 01/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Due to high concentration of organic matter and the ease of disease transmission, blackwater pose a serious threat to both the environment and human health, especially in rural areas where wastewater treatment is dispersed. The reuse of biomass waste is also a difficult issue to be addressed urgently. In this study, an ectopic fermentation system (EFS) was used to treat toilet blackwater, and the effects of different biomass waste combinations on bacterial communities and functions during aerobic fermentation of blackwater were compared. The results showed that adding bran powder prolonged the high temperature period of 11 d, improved blackwater absorption capacity by 7.5% and was beneficial to microbial metabolic activities to enhance organic degradation. By contrast, the combination of corn straw and rice husk obtained abundant bacterial OTUs and diversity. Bacillus, Thermobifida and Thermopolyspora were the main microorganisms involved in the degradation of organic matter in EFS, and their abundance varied in different filler combinations. Bacterial communities were directly affected by environmental factors such as temperature, NH4+-N and organic carbon as well as biomass materials during fermentation. This study revealed the role of corn straw, rice husk and bran powder in EFSs, provided new technical support for blackwater treatment and a new direction for the resource utilization of agricultural biomass waste.
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- Jiabin Li
- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China; Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, School of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, PR China
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- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China
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- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China
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- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China
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- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China
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- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China
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- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China.
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Bai F, Tian H, Wang C, Ma J. Treatment of nanofiltration concentrate of landfill leachate using advanced oxidation processes incorporated with bioaugmentation. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2023; 318:120827. [PMID: 36509353 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2022] [Revised: 11/20/2022] [Accepted: 12/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Advanced oxidation processes have been broadly applied in wastewater treatment, but few studies have focused on its degradative effect on refractory organic contaminants in membrane concentrates of landfill leachate. In this study, the treatment effects of advanced oxidation processes including electrocoagulation (EC), ozone (OZ), anodic oxidation (AO) and electro-Fenton (EF) incorporated with genetically engineered nitrifying bacteria Rhodococcus erythropolis expressing Nirs and AMO (rRho-NM) on nanofiltration concentrate (NFC) of old landfill leachate were investigated in a lab-scale experiment. The results showed that advanced oxidation processes degraded the refractory organic contaminants including coagulation-resistant substances (CRS), humic acid (HA), fulvic acid (FvA), macro molecular organics (MMOs) and benzene ring compounds (BRCs) and increased the biodegradability in NFC of old landfill leachate. Compared to activated sludge (AS), rRho-NM exhibited an excellent removal performance for total organic carbon (TOC), ammonia nitrogen (NH4-N), total nitrogen (TN), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) for advanced oxidation processes-treated NFC of old landfill leachate. Advanced oxidation processes incorporated with bioaugmentation demonstrated an outstanding degradation performance for removing refractory organic contaminants, TOC, NH4-N, TN, BOD, COD and heavy metal in NFC of old landfill leachate. In addition, OZ incorporated with rRho-NM (OZ-rRho-NM) showed the optimal removal efficacy in reduction of refractory organic contaminants, TOC, NH4-N, TN, BOD and COD, the shortest hydraulic retention time (HRT) and the minimum energy consumption in NFC of landfill leachate. Furthermore, the cheapest treatment cost for NFC could be achieved by EC incorporated with rRho-NM (EC-rRho-NM). More impressively, rRho-NM remained stable in expressing Nirs and AMO genes, increased nitrification and denitrification rate, and improved MBR effluent quality in the treatment of NFC. In conclusion, this work provides new insights into the application of advanced oxidation processes incorporated with bioaugmentation using rRho-NM for the treatment of NFC of old landfill leachate.
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- Fuliang Bai
- Department of Resources and Environmental Sciences, School of Geographical Science, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, 150025, China; State Key Laboratory of Urban Water and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150096, China.
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- School of Life Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090, China.
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- Department of Geographical Sciences, School of Geographical Science, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, 150025, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150096, China
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Cao Q, Li X, Chen Y, Li X, Xie Z, Li D. Nitrification resistance and functional redundancy maintain the system stability of partial nitrification in high-strength ammonium wastewater system. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2022; 365:128157. [PMID: 36272680 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.128157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2022] [Revised: 10/11/2022] [Accepted: 10/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The sudden change of ammonia loading in high-strength ammonium wastewater treatment can directly affect the system stability by altering microbial community dynamics. To maintain the system stability, the effects of ammonia shock loading on microbial community dynamics must be studied. Two sets of sequencing batch reactors were operated with 6 shock cycles (maximum volumetric loading rate of 1928 mg N/(L·d)). CN system contained both organic carbon and ammonia and N system contained only ammonia. Comparing with N system, CN system operated more stably and had higher nitrite accumulation rate. Free ammonia (FA) was the select stress for the turnover of CN microbial communities, while the N communities didn t shift much. The increase of Nitrosomonas and the appearance of heterotrophic nitrification-aerobic denitrification bacteria in CN system presented its resistance and redundancy against FA impact, while the increase of functional genes exhibited functional genes redundancy which maintained the system stability.
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- Qin Cao
- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Soil Remediation of Fujian Province University, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China.
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Li J, Liu X, Li L, Zhu C, Luo L, Qi Y, Tian L, Chen Z, Qi J, Geng B. Performance exploration and microbial dynamics of urine diverting composting toilets in rural China. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2022; 321:115964. [PMID: 36007385 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2022] [Revised: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The ongoing "toilet revolution" in China provides new opportunities to improve the rural living environment and sanitation, and the introduction of new sanitation facilities such as urine diverting composting toilets (UDCTs) is conducive to the effective treatment and resource utilization of feces. This study revealed the degradation performance and microbial community dynamics of UDCTs and clarified the influence mechanism of fecal volume in aerobic composting treatment. The results showed that UDCTs could effectively decompose human feces, with an organic matter degradation rate of 25%⁓30%. The temperature, water content, NH4+-N and nutrient accumulation were higher in the high fecal volume treatment than in the low fecal volume treatment. Bacterial community composition and structure in UDCTs varied with composting stage and fecal volume. The diversity and richness of bacterial community in compost were changed with different fecal volumes, but the dominant groups were similar. Redundancy analysis (RDA) showed that nitrogen and organic carbon were the main drivers of bacterial community changes during composting. Highly nutritious and non-phytotoxic compost products were suitable for agronomic uses. Based on these results, UDCTs can be an effective way to solve the problem of fecal pollution in rural areas, and fecal dosage is a potential influencing factor in the operation and maintenance of composting systems.
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- Jiabin Li
- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China
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- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China
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- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China
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- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China
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- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China
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- Zhangye Lanbiao Biotechnology Co., Ltd, Zhangye, Gansu, 734000, PR China
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- Zhangye Lanbiao Biotechnology Co., Ltd, Zhangye, Gansu, 734000, PR China
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- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China
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- Zhangye Lanbiao Biotechnology Co., Ltd, Zhangye, Gansu, 734000, PR China
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- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China.
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Venturin B, Rodrigues HC, Bonassa G, Hollas CE, Bolsan AC, Antes FG, De Prá MC, Fongaro G, Treichel H, Kunz A. Key enzymes involved in anammox-based processes for wastewater treatment: An applied overview. WATER ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH : A RESEARCH PUBLICATION OF THE WATER ENVIRONMENT FEDERATION 2022; 94:e10780. [PMID: 36058650 DOI: 10.1002/wer.10780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2022] [Revised: 07/29/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) process has attracted significant attention as an economic, robustness, and sustainable method for the treatment of nitrogen (N)-rich wastewater. Anammox bacteria (AnAOB) coexist with other microorganisms, and particularly with ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and/or heterotrophic bacteria (HB), in symbiosis in favor of the substrate requirement (ammonium and nitrite) of the AnAOB being supplied by these other organisms. The dynamics of these microbial communities have a significant effect on the N-removal performance, but the corresponding metabolic pathways are still not fully understood. These processes involve many common metabolites that may act as key factors to control the symbiotic interactions between these organisms, to maximize N-removal efficiency from wastewater. Therefore, this work overviews the current state of knowledge about the metabolism of these microorganisms including key enzymes and intermediate metabolites and summarizes already reported experiences based on the employment of certain metabolites for the improvement of N-removal using anammox-based processes. PRACTITIONER POINTS: Approaches knowledge about the biochemistry and metabolic pathways involved in anammox-based processes. Some molecular tools can be used to determine enzymatic activity, serving as an optimization in nitrogen removal processes. Enzymatic evaluation allied to the physical-chemical and biomolecular analysis of the nitrogen removal processes expands the application in different effluents.
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- Bruno Venturin
- Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Cascavel, Paraná, Brazil
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- Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Cascavel, Paraná, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Cascavel, Paraná, Brazil
- Embrapa Suínos e Aves, Concórdia, Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Mao W, Yang R, Shi H, Feng H, Chen S, Wang X. Identification of key water parameters and microbiological compositions triggering intensive N 2O emissions during landfill leachate treatment process. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 833:155135. [PMID: 35405234 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Revised: 03/16/2022] [Accepted: 04/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Landfill leachate treatment processes tend to emit more N2O compared to domestic wastewater treatment. This discrepancy may be ascribed to leachate water characteristics such as high refractory COD, ammonium (NH4+) content, and salinity. In this work, the leachate influent was varied to examine the N2O emission scenarios. NH4+-N, COD, and Cl- concentrations ranged between 1000-2500, 1000-10,000, and 500-3000 mg L-1, respectively. Simultaneously, we attempted to combine statistical analysis with high-throughput sequencing to understand the microbial mechanism with regards to N2O emission. Results show that the strong N2O emissions occur in the nitrifying tank due to the intensive aeration. The system receiving the lowest COD shows the maximum N2O emission factor of 42.7% of the removed nitrogen. Both redundancy analysis and a structural equation model verify that insufficient degradable organics are the key water parameter triggering intensive N2O emission within the designed influent limits. Furthermore, two essential but non-abundant functional bacteria, Flavobacterium (acting as a denitrifier) and Nitrosomonas (acting as a nitrifier), are identified as the core functional species that dramatically influence N2O emissions. An increase in influent COD promotes the proliferation of Flavobacterium and inhibits Nitrosomonas, which in turn reduce N2O release. Meanwhile, two keystone species of Castellaniella and Saprospiraceae unclassified are recognized. They may supply a suitable niche and integrity of the microbial community for N-cycle functional bacteria. These findings reveal the essential role of non-abundant species in microbial community, and expand the current understanding of microbial interactions underlying N2O dynamics in leachate treatment systems.
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- Wenlong Mao
- Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China.
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Remmas N, Manfe N, Raga R, Akratos C. Activated sludge microbial communities and hydrolytic potential in a full-scale SBR system treating landfill leachate. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH. PART A, TOXIC/HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 2022; 57:764-772. [PMID: 35946503 DOI: 10.1080/10934529.2022.2110478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2022] [Revised: 07/28/2022] [Accepted: 07/31/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Landfill leachate, due to its recalcitrant nature and toxicity, poses a serious environmental threat, which requires the implementation of effective treatment processes. In this work, a full-scale treatment system consisting of two Sequencing Batch Reactors (SBRs) was used for the processing of landfill leachate of intermediate to mature age (BOD/COD ratio of 0.16). Biosystem operation resulted in BOD5, COD and TKN removal efficiencies of 81%, 39% and 76%, respectively, whereas the low residual NO3--N concentration in the effluent (4.01 ± 0.10 mg/L) was indicative of the efficient denitrification process. Assessment of hydrolytic potential of activated sludge revealed high endocellular and extracellular lipase activities, which reached values up to 206 and 141 U/g protein respectively, possibly as the consequence of plastics degradation during maturation process. Implementation of Illumina sequencing indicated the predominance of Alphaproteobacteria, accompanied by members of Bacteroidetes, Betaproteobacteria and Chloroflexi. Paracoccus was the predominant genus identified, followed by representatives of the genera Bellilinea, Flavobacterium, Thauera and Truepera. Nitrosomonas was the major ammonia-oxidizing bacterium (AOB), while nitrite oxidation was mainly achieved by the uncultured nitrite-oxidizing bacterium (NOB) Candidatus Nitrotoga.
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- Nikolaos Remmas
- Laboratory of Wastewater Management and Treatment Technologies, Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
- Laboratory of Ecological Engineering and Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
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- Laboratory of Wastewater Management and Treatment Technologies, Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
- Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Laboratory of Ecological Engineering and Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
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Chen Y, Wang H, Gao X, Li X, Dong S, Zhou H, Tan Z. COD/TN ratios shift the microbial community assembly of a pilot-scale shortcut nitrification-denitrification process for biogas slurry treatment. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2022; 29:49335-49345. [PMID: 35220533 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-19285-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2021] [Accepted: 02/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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In this study, effects of carbon to nitrogen (COD/TN) ratios of biogas slurry on shortcut nitrification-denitrification in a pilot-scale integrated fixed film activated sludge (IFAS) system were investigated. Lowering the COD/TN ratio from 11.7 to 6.2 exerted a negative impact on shortcut nitrification-denitrification performance. Accordingly, the NH3-N and TN removal rates decreased from 94.4 to 91.2% and 92.3 to 85.9%, respectively. The dynamics of microbial assembly was analyzed by MiSeq sequencing, and the denitrifying functional genes were quantified by qPCR. The results showed that ammonia oxidizing bacteria and amoA gene were more abundant on the biofilm of oxic tank, indicating they play a key role in NH3-N removal. Autotrophic, endogenous, and fast heterotrophic kinetics denitrifiers were coexisted and enriched in the IFAS system with a decreasing of COD/TN ratio. TN removal was mainly affected by denitrifiers (including Arenimonas, Acidovorax, and Thaurea) harboring narG and nirS genes. Canonical correspondence analysis proved that COD/TN ratio was the most critical factor driving the succession of microbial community. Dissolved oxygen (DO) and pH were found positively correlated with denitrifiers at low COD/TN ratio conditions. As a result, NH3-N and TN removal were effectively enhanced when the DO level in the oxic tank of IFAS system was increased to 1.0-3.0 mg/L.
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- Yangwu Chen
- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China
- Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Chengdu University, Chengdu, 610106, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China
- Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China
- Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China
- Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China
- Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China.
- Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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Purposely Development of the Adaptive Potential of Activated Sludge from Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant Focused on the Treatment of Landfill Leachate. Processes (Basel) 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/pr10030460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/10/2022] Open
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Biological treatment is a key technology in landfill leachate treatment However, often its efficiency is not high enough due to the pollutants in concentrations above the critical ones. The present study aimed to investigate the adaptive responses that occur in activated sludge (AS) during landfill leachate purification. A model process with AS from a municipal wastewater treatment plant and landfill leachate in increasing concentrations was constructed. The data showed that when dilutions 25 and 50 times had been applied the structure of the AS was preserved, but the COD cannot be reduced below 209 mg O2/L. The feed of undiluted leachate destroyed the AS structure as SVI was reduced to 1 mL/g, biotic index to 1, floc size was greatly reduced and COD remained high (2526 mg O2/L). The dominant group of protozoa was changed from attached to free-swimming ciliates. An increase of the bacterial groups responsible for the xenobiotics elimination (aerobic heterotrophs, genera Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter, Azoarcus, Thauera, Alcaligenes) was registered. This was accompanied by a significant increase in free bacteria. The obtained data showed that for optimal treatment of this type of water it is necessary to include a combination of biological treatment with another non-biological method (membrane filtration, reverse osmosis, etc.).
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Fang D, Wang J, Cui D, Dong X, Tang C, Zhang L, Yue D. Recent Advances of Landfill Leachate Treatment. J Indian Inst Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s41745-021-00262-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Jiang H, Wang Z, Ren S, Qiu J, Li X, Peng Y. Culturing sludge fermentation liquid-driven partial denitrification in two-stage Anammox process to realize advanced nitrogen removal from mature landfill leachate. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2021; 415:125568. [PMID: 33773256 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2021] [Revised: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 02/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The two-stage partial nitrification (PN)-Anammox process, during long term treatment of high-ammonia nitrogen leachate, faces challenges such as the adaptation of nitrite oxidation bacteria (NOB) and failure of real-time control of pH. Resultant instabilities including NH4+-N and NO3--N accumulation were overcome by culturing sludge fermentation liquid (SFL)-driven partial denitrification (PD) in situ in the Anammox process. Biodegradation of slowly biodegradable organics (SBO) in SFL created organics restriction condition, which limited the activity of denitrification bacteria and achieved its balance with Anammox bacteria. Produced NO3--N is reduced to NO2--N through PD, which further improved the removal of NH4+-N through Anammox. NO2--N was utilized timely by Anammox bacteria, which avoid further reduction of NO2--N to N2, and result in a high nitrate to nitrite transformation ratio (NTR) of 93.3%. Satisfactory nitrogen removal efficiency (NRE) and nitrogen removal rate (NRR) of 99.6% and 822.0 ± 9.0 g N/(m3∙d) were obtained, respectively. Key genera related to degradation of SBO, PD and Anammox were enriched. The value of narG/(nirK+nirS) increased from 0.05 on day 1-0.15 on day 250. Combining SFL-driven PD with two-stage Anammox process provided a novel insight for applying this process to realize advanced nitrogen removal in practical engineering.
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- Hao Jiang
- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China.
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With the development of economy and the improvement of people’s living standard, landfill leachate has been increasing year by year with the increase in municipal solid waste output. How to treat landfill leachate with high efficiency and low consumption has become a major problem, because of its high ammonia nitrogen and organic matter content, low carbon to nitrogen ratio and difficult degradation. In order to provide reference for future engineering application of landfill leachate treatment, this paper mainly reviews the biological treatment methods of landfill leachate, which focuses on the comparison of nitrogen removal processes combined with microorganisms, the biological nitrogen removal methods combined with ecology and the technology of direct application of microorganisms. In addition, the mechanism of biological nitrogen removal of landfill leachate and the factors affecting the microbial activity during the nitrogen removal process are also described. It is concluded that the treatment processes combined with microorganisms have higher nitrogen removal efficiency compared with the direct application of microorganisms. For example, the nitrogen removal efficiency of the combined process based on anaerobic ammonium oxidation (ANAMMOX) technology can reach more than 99%. Therefore, the treatment processes combined with microorganisms in the future engineering application of nitrogen removal in landfill leachate should be paid more attention to, and the efficiency of nitrogen removal should be improved from the aspects of microorganisms by considering factors affecting its activity.
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Lei Z, Wang L, Wang J, Yang S, Hou Z, Wang XC, Chen R. Partial-nitritation of low-strength anaerobic effluent: A moderate-high dissolved oxygen concentration facilitates ammonia-oxidizing bacteria disinhibition and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria suppression. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 770:145337. [PMID: 33736393 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2020] [Revised: 01/13/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Integrating anaerobic treatment with partial nitritation (PN)/anammox is a promising technology to achieve energy-efficient wastewater treatment, while partial nitritation of the mainstream anaerobic effluent (Aneff) was rarely reported. A PN reactor fed with low-strength Aneff was employed in this study to investigate the performance and technology bottleneck of this process. When operated at low dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration (0.30-0.43 mg/L), gene coding hydroxylamine oxidation (hao) was severely suppressed by bio-refractory organics, which results in a decreased ammonia-oxidizing bacteria activity and nitrite accumulation rate. The ammonium conversion and nitrite accumulation were recovered by increasing the DO concentration to a moderate-high level (1.10 ± 0.20 mg/L) and achieved long-term stable operation. At this condition, hao showed a dramatic increase while gene encoding nitrite oxidoreductase was appropriately suppressed; the effluent NO2-/NH4+ ratio reached 1.17, and a low NO3-/NOx- ratio of 0.38 was achieved simultaneously. The findings in this study revealed the adverse effects of Aneff on PN and supported a practical operating strategy for efficient PN of Aneff.
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- Zhen Lei
- Key Lab of Environmental Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, No.13 Yanta Road, Xi'an 710055, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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- Key Lab of Environmental Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, No.13 Yanta Road, Xi'an 710055, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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- Key Lab of Environmental Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, No.13 Yanta Road, Xi'an 710055, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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- Key Lab of Environmental Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, No.13 Yanta Road, Xi'an 710055, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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- Key Lab of Environmental Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, No.13 Yanta Road, Xi'an 710055, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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- International S&T Cooperation Center for Urban Alternative Water Resources Development, Key Laboratory of Northwest Water Resource, Environment and Ecology, MOE, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, No.13 Yanta Road, Xi'an 710055, PR China
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- Key Lab of Environmental Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, No.13 Yanta Road, Xi'an 710055, Shaanxi Province, PR China; International S&T Cooperation Center for Urban Alternative Water Resources Development, Key Laboratory of Northwest Water Resource, Environment and Ecology, MOE, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, No.13 Yanta Road, Xi'an 710055, PR China.
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Solbach MD, Bonkowski M, Dumack K. Novel Endosymbionts in Rhizarian Amoebae Imply Universal Infection of Unrelated Free-Living Amoebae by Legionellales. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2021; 11:642216. [PMID: 33763389 PMCID: PMC7982676 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.642216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2020] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Legionellales-infected water is a frequent cause of local outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease and Pontiac fever. Decontaminations are difficult because Legionellales reproduce in eukaryotic microorganisms (protists). Most often, Legionellales have been isolated from amoebae; however, the culture-based sampling methods are taxonomically biased. Sequencing studies show that amoebae in the cercozoan class Thecofilosea are dominant in soils and wastewater treatment plants, prompting us to screen their capability to serve as potential hosts of endosymbiotic bacteria. Environmental isolates of Thecofilosea contained a surprising richness of endosymbiotic Legionellales, including Legionella. Considering the widespread dispersal of Legionellales in apparently unrelated amoeboid protist taxa, it appears that the morphotype and not the evolutionary origin of amoebae determines their suitability as hosts for Legionellales. We further provide a protocol for gnotobiotic cultivation of Legionellales and their respective hosts, facilitating future genomic and transcriptomic research of host–symbiont relationships.
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- Marcel Dominik Solbach
- Terrestrial Ecology Group, Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Terrestrial Ecology Group, Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Terrestrial Ecology Group, Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Wu H, Hao B, Cai Y, Liu G, Xing W. Effects of submerged vegetation on sediment nitrogen-cycling bacterial communities in Honghu Lake (China). THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 755:142541. [PMID: 33039889 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Revised: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 09/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Sediment nitrogen (N) cycling is an important biological removal process for N permanently and driven by N-cycling microbial community. There is a growing interest in interactions between submerged vegetation (SV) and sediment N-cycling bacterial community, because of the close link between rooted aquatic plants and the sediment microbes. However, the effects of SV on the sediment N-cycling bacterial community are still controversial. Furthermore, the discrimination of direct and indirect effects of SV on the N-cycling bacterial community remains unclear. Here, we investigated the biomass and species richness of SV and determined the corresponding environment factors (water quality and sediment properties) in Honghu Lake (China). We also used functional genes as markers to unveil the bacterial diversity and community composition and abundance in lake sediments. Our results showed that biomass and species richness of SV affected the composition, diversity and abundance of sediment N-cycling bacterial communities through improving lake water quality and sediment properties. With the increasing richness and abundance of SV, the diversity of most N-cycling bacterial assemblages including nitrifying, denitrifying and DNRA bacteria decreased, while the abundance increased. However, the anammox bacterial assemblage in sediments showed inverse trends. Sediment carbon vs. nitrogen (C:N) ratio negatively affected the abundance of amoA and nirS + nirK + nosZ bacterial assemblages. Additionally, due to the presence of SV, positive interactions among N-cycling bacterial assemblages were found, such as amoA and nrfA bacterial assemblages. Overall, our findings confirmed the significant effects of SV on the N-cycling bacterial community structure and abundance. Moreover, the direct effects of SV on the N-cycling bacterial community and the indirect effects through altering the sediment C were clarified in our study. Our results casted a new light on the negative effects of high C:N ratio. From the study, we made a conclusion that the better SV develops, the greater nitrogen removal occurs in lake sediments.
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- Haoping Wu
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Water Quality Improvement and Ecological Restoration for Watersheds, Institute of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Water Quality Improvement and Ecological Restoration for Watersheds, Institute of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Water Quality Improvement and Ecological Restoration for Watersheds, Institute of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China; Center for Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China; Center for Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China.
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Zhu XL, Bai YH, Wu J, Xu LZJ, Cheng YF, Fan NS, Jin RC. Whether glycine betaine improves the thermotolerance of mesophilic anammox consortia. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY 2020; 41:3309-3317. [PMID: 30999824 DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2019.1606856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2019] [Accepted: 04/06/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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While the application of mesophilic anammox process is currently the state of the art, the feasibility of a thermophilic anammox bioprocess is still unclear. In this study, we investigate whether glycine betaine (GB) addition can enhance the thermotolerance of mesophilic anammox biomass in the upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors fed with synthetic wastewater at a nitrogen loading of approximately 4 kg N m-3 d-1. The results showed that during a long-term operation at 45°C with GB (0, 0.1, 1, 2 mM) addition, anammox performance became worse with the final effluent concentrations of NO2 -N of 145 ± 11.6 mg L-1 and nitrogen removal efficiency decreased from 92.3-6.9%. Specific anammox activity decreased from 392.1 ± 12.1-6.0 ± 0.8 mg N g-1 VSS d-1, which were not significantly higher than those in the control reactor. The content of heme c showed a stronger downward trend in T1 (with GB addition) than in the control reactor T0. The qPCR results showed that the relative abundance of Candidatus Kuenenia decreased in both the experimental (from 53.5-28.8%) and control reactors (from 54.1-35.1%). Overall, continuous addition of exogenous GB did not improve the thermotolerance of mesophilic anammox consortia at 45°C.
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- Xiao-Ling Zhu
- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Hangzhou City for Ecosystem Protection and Restoration, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Hangzhou City for Ecosystem Protection and Restoration, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Hangzhou City for Ecosystem Protection and Restoration, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Hangzhou City for Ecosystem Protection and Restoration, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Hangzhou City for Ecosystem Protection and Restoration, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Hangzhou City for Ecosystem Protection and Restoration, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Hangzhou City for Ecosystem Protection and Restoration, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
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Bai F, Tian H, Ma J. Landfill leachate treatment through the combination of genetically engineered bacteria Rhodococcus erythropolis expressing Nirs and AMO and membrane filtration processes. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2020; 263:114061. [PMID: 32268229 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2019] [Revised: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/22/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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This study developed a process of genetically engineered bacteria Rhodococcus erythropolis expressing Nirs and AMO combined with membrane bioreactor (MBR), nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) membrane (pRho-NA-MNR) for advanced treatment of landfill leachate. Results demonstrated that pRho-NA-MNR presented higher removal rate of chemical oxygen demand (COD), biological oxygen demand (BOD), ammonia nitrogen (N-NH4), total nitrogen (TN) and total organic carbon (TOC) than activated sludge (AS-MNR) system. Administration of pRho-NA increased nitrification by converting N-NH4 to nitrite (N-NO2) and Nitrate (N-NO3), and promoting denitrification by converting N-NO2 to nitrogen (N2) in the landfill leachate treatment, promoted the pH control, increased sludge activity and effluent yield, shortened phase length adaptation under alternating aerobic-anoxic conditions. pRho-NA increased the nitration and denitrifying rate in the aerobic and anaerobic stage in the system by increasing Cyt cd1 and Cyt c expression in the activated sludge. Nitrogen removal by nitrification and denitrification was positively correlated to the concentration of Nirs and AMO expression. Treatment with pRho-NA promoted pollutant removal efficiency of membrane bioreactor, nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membrane processes in landfill leachate. In conclusion, data suggest that pRho-NA-MNR facilitates the formation of granular sludge and enhances comparable removal of nitrogen and organic compounds, indicating the practice of this process should be considered in landfill leachate treatment system.
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- Fuliang Bai
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150090, PR China; Lubin Environmental Protection Equipment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd, Shanghai, PR China
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- School of Life Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150090, PR China.
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Huang W, Gong B, He L, Wang Y, Zhou J. Intensified nutrients removal in a modified sequencing batch reactor at low temperature: Metagenomic approach reveals the microbial community structure and mechanisms. CHEMOSPHERE 2020; 244:125513. [PMID: 32050330 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Revised: 11/08/2019] [Accepted: 11/28/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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To achieve efficient biological nutrients removal at low temperature, a modified sequencing batch reactor (SBR) was developed at 10 °C by extending sludge retention time (SRT), shortening aerobic stage and compensating anoxic stage. The average removal rates of ammonium (NH4+-N), total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) were 98.82%, 94.12% and 96.04%, respectively. Variation of carbon source in a typical cycle demonstrated the maximum synthesis of poly-β-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) (60 mg/L) occurred after feast period. Furthermore, the TP in sludge reached 50.4 mg/g mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS) (78.4% was inorganic phosphorus and 21.6% was organic phosphorus) after 120 days of operation, indicating an excellent P-accumulating capacity was achieved in this system. Ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) activity inhibition test verified both AOB and ammonia oxidizing archaea (AOA) were involved in ammonia-oxidizing process and the latter accounted for 17%-19%. Metagenomic-based taxonomy revealed the dominant genera were Candidatus Accumulibacter (12.18%), Dechloromonas (7.54%), Haliangium (6.69%) and Candidatus Contendobacter (3.40%). As described from the denitrifying genes perspective, with the exception of nitrite reduction (performed by denitrifiers), denitrifying phosphorus-accumulating organisms (DPAOs) played a leading role in denitrification pathway, showing that poly-β-hydroxyalkanoates (PHA)-driven nutrients removal was the dominate process.
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- Wei Huang
- Key Laboratory of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region's Eco-Environment, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400045, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region's Eco-Environment, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400045, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region's Eco-Environment, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400045, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region's Eco-Environment, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400045, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region's Eco-Environment, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400045, PR China.
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Roy D, Lemay JF, Drogui P, Tyagi RD, Landry D, Rahni M. Identifying the link between MBRs' key operating parameters and bacterial community: A step towards optimized leachate treatment. WATER RESEARCH 2020; 172:115509. [PMID: 31986399 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.115509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2019] [Revised: 01/07/2020] [Accepted: 01/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A MBR treating compost leachate was studied in order to link the operating parameters (solid and hydraulic retention time) to contaminant's specific bacterial catabolic activity. In this context, a lab-scale aerobic membrane bioreactor was operated for 200 days, at solid retention times (SRT) of 30 and 45 days and four different contaminant load rates. Results showed that increasing the food to microorganism ratio (F/M) by increasing the contaminant load rates lessened the selectivity pressure, which allowed the proliferation of subdominant operational taxonomic units (OTU) (relative abundance >3%) that were otherwise inhibited by highly adapted dominant OTUs (relative abundance >10%). Subsequently, increasing the SRT resulted in a lower species richness and the selection of two dominant types of bacteria: 1) genera with low growth rates that feed on non-limiting substrates or substrates with few competitors, and 2) genera with metabolisms that are highly specific to the available substrates and that can outcompete the other genera by using the substrate more efficiently. The bacterial population evolution observed during this study suggests that the mixed liquor population diversity and structure can be modulated with the operating conditions for the bioenhancement of contaminant specific catabolic activity. Identified dominant and subdominant genera were linked to the MBR's NH4+ and COD removal performances. Interestingly, nitrification performances were unaffected by the organic load rate and the Nitrosomonas relative abundance.
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- Dany Roy
- INRS, 490, Rue de la Couronne, Québec, Qc, G1K 9A9, Canada
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- INRS, 490, Rue de la Couronne, Québec, Qc, G1K 9A9, Canada.
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- Englobe Corp., 505 Boul. de Parc Technologique, Québec, Qc, G1P 4S7, Canada
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Profiling population-level diversity and dynamics of Accumulibacter via high throughput sequencing of ppk1. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2019; 103:9711-9722. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-019-10183-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2019] [Revised: 09/09/2019] [Accepted: 10/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Wu L, Shen M, Li J, Huang S, Li Z, Yan Z, Peng Y. Cooperation between partial-nitrification, complete ammonia oxidation (comammox), and anaerobic ammonia oxidation (anammox) in sludge digestion liquid for nitrogen removal. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2019; 254:112965. [PMID: 31401520 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2019.112965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2019] [Revised: 07/20/2019] [Accepted: 07/25/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The challenge of sludge digester liquor treatment is its high ammonium nitrogen (NH4+-N) concentration. Early reports found that complete ammonia oxidation (comammox) was not present and anaerobic ammonia oxidation (anammox) was difficult to achieve in most sludge digester liquor treatments. In this study, NH4+-N removal by cooperation between partial-nitrification, comammox, and anammox processes was achieved in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) for sludge digester liquor treatment. The results showed that 2100-2200 mg/L of NH4+-N was removed in the SBR with 98.82% removal efficiency. In addition, 55.11% of NH4+-N was converted to nitrite nitrogen (NO2--N) by partial-nitrification, 25.43% of NH4+-N was converted to nitrate nitrogen (NO3--N) by comammox, and 18.28% of NH4+-N was removed by anammox. During the operation, in the SBR, the relative abundance of the dominant ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (Chitinophagaceae) was 18.89%, that of the dominant anammox bacteria (Candidatus Kuenenia) was 0.10%, and that of the dominant comammox bacteria (Nitrospira) was 0.20%. Therefore, the high nitrogen removal efficiency in this system was considered the result of the combination of the three processes. These results showed that comammox and anammox could play very important roles in nitrogen transformation and energy-saving in nitrogen removal systems.
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- Lina Wu
- Key Laboratory of Urban Stormwater System and Water Environment (Ministry of Education), Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Stormwater System and Water Environment (Ministry of Education), Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Stormwater System and Water Environment (Ministry of Education), Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton 08544, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Stormwater System and Water Environment (Ministry of Education), Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Stormwater System and Water Environment (Ministry of Education), Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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Wang W, Pang C, Sierra JM, Hu Z, Ren X. Performance and recovery of a completely separated partial nitritation and anammox process treating phenol-containing wastewater. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2019; 26:33917-33926. [PMID: 29982943 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-018-2701-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2018] [Accepted: 07/03/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Anammox process is considered as a promising technology for removing total nitrogen from low-strength ammonium and phenol-containing wastewater. However, it is still a challenge for the anammox process to treat high-strength ammonium and phenol-containing wastewater. A completely separated partial nitritation and anammox (CSPN/A) process was developed to remove total nitrogen from high-strength phenol-containing wastewater. About 92% of COD, 100% of phenol, and 82.4% of total nitrogen were successfully removed at a NH4+-N concentration of 200 mg L-1 with a phenol/NH4+-N mass ratio of 0.5 in the CSPN/A process. Furthermore, a shock loading of 300 mg phenol L-1 with a phenol/NH4+-N mass ratio of 1.5 led to a complete failure of partial nitritation, but the performance was rapidly recovered by the increase of NH4+-N concentration. Although the activities of ammonium-oxidizing bacteria and anammox bacteria were severely inhibited at a phenol/NH4+-N mass ratio of 1.5, the enrichment of efficient phenol degraders in the CSPN stage could strengthen the performance robustness of partial nitritation and anammox process. Therefore, this study presented a new insight on the feasibility of the anammox process for treating high-strength ammonium and phenol-containing wastewater.
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- Wei Wang
- Department of Municipal Engineering, School of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China.
- Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230009, China.
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- Department of Municipal Engineering, School of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China
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- Section Sanitary Engineering, Department of Water Management, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628CN, Delft, The Netherlands
- KWR Watercycle Research Institute, Groningenhaven 7, 3430BB, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
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- Department of Municipal Engineering, School of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China
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- Department of Municipal Engineering, School of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China
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Lv B, Zhang D, Chen Q, Cui Y. Effects of earthworms on nitrogen transformation and the correspond genes (amoA and nirS) in vermicomposting of sewage sludge and rice straw. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 287:121428. [PMID: 31096104 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.121428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2019] [Revised: 05/03/2019] [Accepted: 05/04/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The effects of earthworms on nitrogen transformation and the responsible functional genes during disposal of sewage sludge and rice straw were investigated in this study. Vermicomposting resulted in the lower pH and total organic carbon (TOC) compared to the control treatment without earthworms. Moreover, the presence of earthworms could promote the nitrogen mineralization and nitrification process in vermicomposting. Earthworms increased the activity of ammonia monooxygenase and abundance of amoA-nitrifier and reduced its diversity, whereas they reduced the density of nirS-denitrifying bacteria but enhanced its diversity. Nitrosospira was the dominant amoA-nitrifier and earthworms stimulated its growth in the vermicomposting. The presence of earthworms could also affect the community composition of nirS-denitrifying bacteria despite most of the nirS-denitrifier was not be classified at the genus level. In conclusion, the presence of earthworms had significant influence on the diversity and abundances of amoA and nirS genes and affect the nitrogen bio-transformation in vermicomposting.
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- Baoyi Lv
- College of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China; International Joint Research Center for Persistent Toxic Substances (IJRC-PTS), Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China.
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- College of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China
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- College of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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Bai F, Tian H, Ma J. Advanced treatment of sewage by membrane bioreactor associate with genetically engineered autotrophic nitrifying bacteria. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 288:121341. [PMID: 31129517 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.121341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2019] [Revised: 04/06/2019] [Accepted: 04/10/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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This study introduced a process of MBR combing with genetically engineered bacteria of expressing nirs and ppk genes (GEB-Nirs/PPK) for advanced treatment of sewage in scenic area. An industrial scale application was staged anaerobic digestion, aerobic digestion. Over more than 150 days of continuous operation, TMP in this system was less than 0.18 bar. With a membrane flux of 6.48 m3/h, TMP remained below 0.2 bar and effluent remained above 70 m3 during continuous operation. Average COD and BOD removals averaged 94.2% and 93.6%, and were obtained with average effluent COD and BOD below 10.4 mg/L and 4.2 mg/L, respectively. The TN and TP removals averaged 98.8% and 94.3%, and never higher than 3.2 mg/L and 0.2 mg/L, respectively, in the processing system. In conclusion, these results indicate that the process of MBR associate with genetically engineered autotrophic nitrifying bacteria is of high-efficiency for advanced treatment of sewage.
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- Fuliang Bai
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China; Lubin Environmental Protection Equipment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- School of Life Science, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150090, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China.
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Yang X, Song Z, Zhou S, Guo H, Geng B, Peng X, Zhao G, Xie Y. Insights into functional microbial succession during nitrogen transformation in an ectopic fermentation system. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 284:266-275. [PMID: 30952054 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.03.135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2019] [Revised: 03/26/2019] [Accepted: 03/27/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The ectopic fermentation system (EFS) is an advanced technology for treating farm wastewater, and it reduces ammonia nitrogen emission and nitrogen loss of fermentation products. This study observed the functional bacteria succession related to nitrogen metabolism in EFS by high throughput sequencing, and evaluated their associations with environmental factors. Results revealed that with the changes of temperature, pH, moisture content, and nitrogen content during fermentation, the species richness and diversity of ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) with amoA increased, but those of denitrifying bacteria carrying nirK and nosZ decreased. During the fermentation process, the dominant bacterial populations of AOB and denitrifying bacteria changed significantly, and different bacterial populations showed different positive/negative correlations with the environmental factors. This study revealed the role of functional bacteria in ammonia removal and nitrogen conservation of EFS, and provided a theoretical basis for the improvement of microbial agents and EFS application.
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- Xiaotong Yang
- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IEDA, CAAS), Beijing, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.
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- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IEDA, CAAS), Beijing, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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Wu L, Li Z, Huang S, Shen M, Yan Z, Li J, Peng Y. Low energy treatment of landfill leachate using simultaneous partial nitrification and partial denitrification with anaerobic ammonia oxidation. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 2019; 127:452-461. [PMID: 30974371 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.02.071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2018] [Revised: 02/09/2019] [Accepted: 02/28/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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An up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor (UASB), anoxic/oxic (A/O)-anaerobic ammonia oxidation reactor (ANAOR or anammox reactor), and anaerobic sequencing batch reactor (ASBR) were employed in the treatment of landfill leachate with partial nitrification-anammox and half-denitrification-anammox. The Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) concentration, ammonium nitrogen (NH4+-N) concentration, and total nitrogen (TN) concentration of the basal leachate was 2200-2500 mg/L, 1200-1300 mg/L, and 1300-1400 mg/L, respectively. After a 1:2 dilution using domestic sewage, the COD, NH4+-N, and TN concentrations in the influent were 800-1000 mg/L, 400-430 mg/L, and 420-440 mg/L, respectively. After treatment, the final COD, NH4+-N, and TN were decreased to 90-100 mg/L, 13-14 mg/L, and 35-38 mg/L, respectively. In the ASBR, organic carbon sources in sewage-diluted landfill leachate were introduced for the conversion of nitrate nitrogen (NO3--N) into nitrite nitrogen (NO2--N). This enabled the continued reaction of NO2--N with NH4+-N from the newly introduced sewage-diluted landfill leachate via anammox. As a result, complete TN removal was achieved in the system. Microbial diversity analysis indicated that the relative abundance of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) was four to five times greater than nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) in the A/O reactor, showing that partial nitrification was prevalent. The relative abundance of the anammox bacterium Candidatus Kuenenia gradually increased in each reactor, reaching a maximum of 1.17%-1.39%. Using this set-up, we achieved advanced, efficient, and economical, COD reduction and nitrogen removal. Taken together, the findings provide important insights into the optimal operation of landfill leachate treatments.
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- Lina Wu
- Key Laboratory of Urban Stormwater System and Water Environment (Ministry of Education), Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Stormwater System and Water Environment (Ministry of Education), Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton 08544, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Stormwater System and Water Environment (Ministry of Education), Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Stormwater System and Water Environment (Ministry of Education), Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Stormwater System and Water Environment (Ministry of Education), Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Engineering Research Centre of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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Miao L, Yang G, Tao T, Peng Y. Recent advances in nitrogen removal from landfill leachate using biological treatments - A review. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2019; 235:178-185. [PMID: 30682670 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.01.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2018] [Revised: 01/07/2019] [Accepted: 01/17/2019] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Landfill leachate, generated from the wastes in a landfill, is a type of wastewater with high concentrations of ammonia and organics, causing a serious environmental pollution. Because of its complex and changing characteristics, it is difficult to remove nitrogen from landfill leachate economically and effectively. Hence, nitrogen removal is a significant research priority of landfill leachate treatment in recent years. Biological processes are known to be effective in nitrogen removal. In this work, the biological nitrogen removal treatments were divided into the following processes: conventional nitrification-denitrification process, nitritation-denitritation process, endogenous denitritation process, and anaerobic ammonium oxidation (Anammox) process. This manuscript summarized the theories and applications of these approaches in detail, and concluded that appropriate processes should be selected in accordance with different characteristics of landfill leachate, in order to effectively remove nitrogen from all stages of landfill leachate and reduce disposal costs. Finally, perspective on the challenges and opportunities of biological nitrogen removal from landfill leachate was also presented.
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- Lei Miao
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, PR China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, PR China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, PR China.
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Xu P, Xiao E, Wu J, He F, Zhang Y, Wu Z. Enhanced nitrate reduction in water by a combined bio-electrochemical system of microbial fuel cells and submerged aquatic plant Ceratophyllum demersum. J Environ Sci (China) 2019; 78:338-351. [PMID: 30665653 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2018.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2018] [Revised: 09/29/2018] [Accepted: 11/13/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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High nitrate (NO3-) loading in water bodies is a crucial factor inducing the eutrophication of lakes. We tried to enhance NO3- reduction in overlying water by coupling sediment microbial fuel cells (SMFCs) with submerged aquatic plant Ceratophyllum demersum. A comparative study was conducted by setting four treatments: open-circuit SMFC (Control), closed-circuit SMFC (SMFC-c), open-circuit SMFC with C. demersum (Plant), and closed-circuit SMFC with C. demersum (P-SMFC-c). The electrochemical parameters were documented to illustrate the bio-electrochemical characteristics of SMFC-c and P-SMFC-c. Removal pathways of NO3- in different treatments were studied by adding quantitative 15NO3- to water column. The results showed that the cathodic reaction in SMFC-c was mainly catalyzed by aerobic organisms attached on the cathode, including algae, Pseudomonas, Bacillus, and Albidiferax. The oxygen secreted by plants significantly improved the power generation of SMFC-c. Both electrogenesis and plants enhanced the complete removal of NO3- from the sediment-water system. The complete removal rates of added 15N increased by 17.6% and 10.2% for SMFC-c and plant, respectively, when compared with control at the end of experiment. The electrochemical/heterotrophic and aerobic denitrification on cathodes mainly drove the higher reduction of NO3- in SMFC-c and plant, respectively. The coexistence of electrogenesis and plants further increased the complete removal of NO3- with a rate of 23.1%. The heterotrophic and aerobic denitrifications were simultaneously promoted with a highest abundance of Flavobacterium, Bacillus, Geobacter, Pseudomonas, Rhodobacter, and Arenimonas on the cathode.
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- Peng Xu
- College of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
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Yin Y, Sun J, Liu F, Wang L. Effect of nitrogen deficiency on the stability of aerobic granular sludge. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 275:307-313. [PMID: 30594841 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.12.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2018] [Revised: 12/16/2018] [Accepted: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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To assess the stability of aerobic granular sludge (AGS) under nitrogen deficiency conditions, three sequence batch reactors were operated with chemical oxygen demand (COD) to nitrogen (N) ratios of 100/5, 100/2.5, and 100/2, while COD concentration was kept consistent. AGS variations in its physicochemical characteristics, microbial community, and treatment performance were investigated. The results indicated that good treatment performance and stable AGS were achieved under nitrogen deficiency. Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) regulating mechanism preserved AGS stability under nitrogen deficiency, especially through increased secretion of polysaccharide. In addition, members of the Anaerolineaceae were the major filamentous bacteria, which are strictly anaerobic organism, providing a possible explanation to the lack of filamentous bacteria outgrowth under N deficient condition. Insights from this study could help lower chemical costs in AGS applications for specific industrial wastewater treatments.
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- Yunjun Yin
- School of Environment, MOE Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences/State Key Lab of Water Environment Simulation, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
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- School of Civil and Architecture Engineering, Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an 710021, China
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- School of Environment, MOE Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences/State Key Lab of Water Environment Simulation, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Development Research Center of the Ministry of Water Resources of P.R. China, Beijing 100038, China
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Huang Z, Wei Z, Xiao X, Tang M, Li B, Zhang X. Nitrification/denitrification shaped the mercury-oxidizing microbial community for simultaneous Hg 0 and NO removal. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 274:18-24. [PMID: 30500759 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.11.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2018] [Revised: 11/15/2018] [Accepted: 11/18/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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A denitrifying/nitrifying membrane biofilm reactor for simultaneous removal of Hg0 and NO was investigated. Hg0 and NO removal efficiency attained 94.5% and 86%, respectively. The mercury-oxidizing microbial community was significantly shaped by nitrification/denitrification after the supply of gaseous Hg0and NO continuously. Dominant genera Rhodanobacter and Nitrosomonas participated in Hg0 oxidation, nitrification and denitrification simultaneously. Hg0 oxidizing bacteria (Gallionella, Rhodanobacter, Ottowia, Nitrosomonas and etc.), nitrifying bacteria (Nitrosomonas, Rhodanobacter, Diaphorobacte and etc.) and denitrifying bacteria (Nitrosomonas, Rhodanobacter, Castellaniella and etc.) co-existed in the MBfR, as shown by metagenomic sequencing. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and high performance liquid chromatography-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (HPLC-ICP-MS) confirmed the formation of a mercuric species (Hg2+) from mercury bio-oxidation. Mechanism of mercury oxidation can be described as the bacterial oxidation of Hg0 in which Hg0 serves as electron donor, NO serves as electron donor in nitrification and electron acceptor in denitrification, oxygen serves as electron acceptor.
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- Zhenshan Huang
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Guangzhou 510275, China.
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Guangzhou 510275, China
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Saleem M, Lavagnolo MC, Campanaro S, Squartini A. Dynamic membrane bioreactor (DMBR) for the treatment of landfill leachate; bioreactor's performance and metagenomic insights into microbial community evolution. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2018; 243:326-335. [PMID: 30195162 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.08.090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2018] [Revised: 08/06/2018] [Accepted: 08/27/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The use of dynamic membranes as a low-cost alternative for conventional membrane for the treatment of landfill leachate (LFL) was investigated in this study. For this purpose a lab-scale, submerged pre-anoxic and post-aerobic bioreactor configuration was used with nylon mesh as dynamic membrane support. The study was conducted at ambient temperature and LFL was fed to the bioreactor in gradually increasing concentration mixed with tap water (from 20% to 100%). The results of this study demonstrated that lower mesh pore size of 52 μm achieved better results in terms of solid-liquid separation performance (turbidity <10 NTU) of the formed dynamic membrane layer as compared to 200 and 85 μm meshes while treating LFL. Consistently high NH4+-N conversion efficiency of more than 98% was achieved under all nitrogen loading conditions, showing effectiveness of the formed dynamic membrane in retaining slow growing nitrifying species. Total nitrogen removal reached more than 90% however, the denitrification activity showed a fluctuating profile and found to be inhibited by elevated concentrations of free nitrous acid and NO2--N at low pH values inside the anoxic bioreactor. A detailed metagenomic analysis allowed a taxonomic investigation over time and revealed the potential biochemical pathways involved in NH4+-N conversion. This study led to the identification of a dynamic system in which nitrite concentration is determined by the contribution of NH4+ oxidizers (Nitrosomonas), and by a competition between nitrite oxidizers (Nitrospira and Nitrobacter) and reducers (Thauera).
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- Mubbshir Saleem
- Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova, via Marzolo 9, 35131, Padova, Italy.
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova, via Marzolo 9, 35131, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via U. Bassi 58/b, 35121, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), Legnaro, Padova, Italy
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Zhang Z, Yu Z, Dong J, Wang Z, Ma K, Xu X, Alvarezc PJJ, Zhu L. Stability of aerobic granular sludge under condition of low influent C/N ratio: Correlation of sludge property and functional microorganism. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2018; 270:391-399. [PMID: 30243247 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.09.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2018] [Revised: 09/07/2018] [Accepted: 09/09/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Aerobic granular sludge process treating domestic wastewater with low C/N ratio is necessary to be studied for rapid urbanization in China and other countries. In this study, two parallel reactors with different influent C/N ratio (15 in R1, 5 in R2) were established. Compared to the disintegrated granule in R1 with high influent C/N ratio, granules with large size (650 μm) and compact structure (integrity coefficient <0.1) were stable in R2 along with influent C/N ratio decreased to 5. High-through sequencing illustrated the functional microbes like Thauera and Paracoccus enriched under low influent C/N ratio, and principal component analysis further showed these microbes were positive correlation with tryptophan and protein-like substances in extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and granular strength. It was indicated that under low influent C/N ratio, several resistant microbes like Thauera (19.5%) enriched and then secreted tryptophan and protein-like substances, and stable granules with multi-functional microbes could be formed finally.
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- Zhiming Zhang
- Institute of Environmental Pollution Control and Treatment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Environmental Pollution Control and Treatment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Environmental Pollution Control and Treatment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Environmental Pollution Control and Treatment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Environmental Pollution Control and Treatment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Environmental Pollution Control and Treatment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory for Water Pollution Control and Environmental Safety, Hangzhou 310058, China; Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Water Pollution Control, 388 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005, USA
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- Institute of Environmental Pollution Control and Treatment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory for Water Pollution Control and Environmental Safety, Hangzhou 310058, China; Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Water Pollution Control, 388 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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Zhang Y, Li M, Zhang Q, Sang W, Jiang Y. Start-up performance of anaerobic/aerobic/anoxic-sequencing batch reactor (SBR) augmented with denitrifying polyphosphate-accumulating organism (DPAO) and their gene analysis. WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY : A JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ON WATER POLLUTION RESEARCH 2018; 78:523-533. [PMID: 30207994 DOI: 10.2166/wst.2018.317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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This paper was aimed at investigating the bio-augmentation performance of anaerobic/aerobic/anoxic-type sequencing batch reactor (SBR) during its start-up period by introducing a strain of denitrifying polyphosphate-accumulating organism (DPAO). Two SBR reactors were inoculated to study the start-up performance, with one for DPAO introduction and the other as the control specimen. A comparison, of microbial community diversity based on the reactor which obtained a better performance, was made between polymerase chain reaction-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR-DGGE) analyses encoded by 16S rRNA and functional genes (nirS, nirK). The results indicated that the introduction of DPAO had a positive effect on the biological system, including a reduction of the start-up period, the improvement of sludge characteristics and the removal efficiency of nutrients, especially for phosphorus. By comparing the phylogenetic relationship of 16S rRNA and functional genes (nirS, nirK) of the reactor augmented with DPAO, it could be found that the phylogenetic relationship of these genes were remarkably inconsistent with each other. Therefore, 16SrRNA should not be used to determine the microbial community diversity of functional bacteria which could accomplish denitrification, and gene nirK should not be neglected when determining functional bacteria.
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- Yifang Zhang
- School of Civil Engineering & Architecture, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China E-mail:
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- School of Civil Engineering & Architecture, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China E-mail:
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- School of Civil Engineering & Architecture, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China E-mail:
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- School of Civil Engineering & Architecture, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China E-mail:
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- School of Civil Engineering & Architecture, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China E-mail:
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Remmas N, Ntougias S, Chatzopoulou M, Melidis P. Optimization aspects of the biological nitrogen removal process in a full-scale twin sequencing batch reactor (SBR) system in series treating landfill leachate. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH. PART A, TOXIC/HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 2018; 53:847-853. [PMID: 29596027 DOI: 10.1080/10934529.2018.1455375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Despite the fact that biological nitrogen removal (BNR) process has been studied in detail in laboratory- and pilot-scale sequencing batch reactor (SBR) systems treating landfill leachate, a limited number of research works have been performed in full-scale SBR plants regarding nitrification and denitrification. In the current study, a full-scale twin SBR system in series of 700 m3 (350 m3 each) treating medium-age landfill leachate was evaluated in terms of its carbon and nitrogen removal efficiency in the absence and presence of external carbon source, i.e., glycerol from biodiesel production. Both biodegradable organic carbon and ammonia were highly oxidized [biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) and total Kjehldahl nitrogen (TKN) removal efficiencies above 90%], whereas chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiency was slightly above 40%, which is within the range reported in the literature for pilot-scale SBRs. As the consequence of the high recalcitrant organic fraction of the landfill leachate, dissimilatory nitrate reduction was restricted in the absence of crude glycerol, although denitrification was improved by electron donor addition, resulting in TN removal efficiencies above 70%. Experimental data revealed that the second SBR negligibly contributed to BNR process, since carbon and ammonia oxidation completion was achieved in the first SBR. On the other hand, the low VSS/SS ratio, due to the lack of primary sedimentation, highly improved sludge settleability, resulting in sludge volume indices (SVI) below 30 mL g-1.
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- Nikolaos Remmas
- a Laboratory of Wastewater Management and Treatment Technologies, Department of Environmental Engineering , Democritus University of Thrace , Xanthi , Greece
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- a Laboratory of Wastewater Management and Treatment Technologies, Department of Environmental Engineering , Democritus University of Thrace , Xanthi , Greece
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- a Laboratory of Wastewater Management and Treatment Technologies, Department of Environmental Engineering , Democritus University of Thrace , Xanthi , Greece
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- a Laboratory of Wastewater Management and Treatment Technologies, Department of Environmental Engineering , Democritus University of Thrace , Xanthi , Greece
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Saleem M, Spagni A, Alibardi L, Bertucco A, Lavagnolo MC. Assessment of dynamic membrane filtration for biological treatment of old landfill leachate. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2018; 213:27-35. [PMID: 29477848 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.02.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2017] [Revised: 01/24/2018] [Accepted: 02/14/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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This study investigated the behaviour of dynamic membrane (DM) filtration for the treatment of stabilised landfill leachate in a bench-scale pre-anoxic and aerobic submerged dynamic membrane bioreactor (DMBR). Four meshes with different openings (10, 52, 85 and 200 μm) were tested to support the development of DM. Differences were observed among the meshes in supporting the development of the cake layer constituting the DM. The treatment of landfill leachate had an impact on sludge characteristics resulting in deteriorated filtration performance of the DM. Effluent turbidity was often higher than 100 NTU for larger mesh pore size (85 and 200 μm). Low effluent turbidity was achieved with meshes with 10 and 52 μm (13 ± 2 and 26 ± 4 NTU, respectively) although at membrane fluxes lower than 10 L m- 2 h-1. The bioreactor exhibited a moderate organics removal of 50-60% and an ammonia oxidation between 80 and 90%. Incomplete nitrification was observed due to increased concentrations of free ammonia and free nitrous acid, with nitrite effluent concentrations up to 1062 mgNO2--N L-1. Due to the large presence of refractory organic matter in landfill leachate, denitrification was limited resulting in a total nitrogen removal of approximately 20%.
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- Mubbshir Saleem
- Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova, via Marzolo 9, 35131, Padova, Italy
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- Laboratory of Technologies for Waste, Wastewater and Raw Materials Management, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), via M.M. Sole 4, 40129, Bologna, Italy.
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- Cranfield Water Science Institute, Cranfield University, Bedford, MK43 0AL, UK
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, via Marzolo 9, 35131, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova, via Marzolo 9, 35131, Padova, Italy
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Zhou X, Wang Z, Jia H, Li L, Wu F. Continuously Monocropped Jerusalem Artichoke Changed Soil Bacterial Community Composition and Ammonia-Oxidizing and Denitrifying Bacteria Abundances. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:705. [PMID: 29692769 PMCID: PMC5902710 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2018] [Accepted: 03/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Soil microbial communities have profound effects on the growth, nutrition and health of plants in agroecosystems. Understanding soil microbial dynamics in cropping systems can assist in determining how agricultural practices influence soil processes mediated by microorganisms. In this study, soil bacterial communities were monitored in a continuously monocropped Jerusalem artichoke (JA) system, in which JA was successively monocropped for 3 years in a wheat field. Soil bacterial community compositions were estimated by amplicon sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. Abundances of ammonia-oxidizing and denitrifying bacteria were estimated by quantitative PCR analysis of the amoA, nirS, and nirK genes. Results showed that 1-2 years of monocropping of JA did not significantly impact the microbial alpha diversity, and the third cropping of JA decreased the microbial alpha diversity (P < 0.05). Principal coordinates analysis and permutational multivariate analysis of variance analyses revealed that continuous monocropping of JA changed soil bacterial community structure and function profile (P < 0.001). At the phylum level, the wheat field was characterized with higher relative abundances of Latescibacteria, Planctomycetes, and Cyanobacteria, the first cropping of JA with Actinobacteria, the second cropping of JA with Acidobacteria, Armatimonadetes, Gemmatimonadetes, and Proteobacteria. At the genus level, the first cropping of JA was enriched with bacterial species with pathogen-antagonistic and/or plant growth promoting potentials, while members of genera that included potential denitrifiers increased in the second and third cropping of JA. The first cropping of JA had higher relative abundances of KO terms related to lignocellulose degradation and phosphorus cycling, the second cropping of JA had higher relative abundances of KO terms nitrous-oxide reductase and nitric-oxide reductase, and the third cropping of JA had higher relative abundances of KO terms nitrate reductase and nitrite reductase. The abundances of amoA genes decreased while nirK increased in the third cropping of JA, nirS continuously increased in the second and third cropping of JA (P < 0.05). Redundancy analysis and Mantel test found that soil organic carbon and Olsen phosphorus contents played important roles in shaping soil bacterial communities. Overall, our results revealed that continuous monocropping of JA changed soil bacterial community composition and its functional potentials.
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- Xingang Zhou
- Department of Horticulture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Northeast Region, Ministry of Agriculture, Harbin, China
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- Department of Horticulture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Horticulture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- Institute of Horticulture, Qinghai Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Xining, China
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- Department of Horticulture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Northeast Region, Ministry of Agriculture, Harbin, China
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Zeng G, Zhang L, Dong H, Chen Y, Zhang J, Zhu Y, Yuan Y, Xie Y, Fang W. Pathway and mechanism of nitrogen transformation during composting: Functional enzymes and genes under different concentrations of PVP-AgNPs. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2018; 253:112-120. [PMID: 29331826 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.12.095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2017] [Revised: 12/25/2017] [Accepted: 12/27/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Polyvinylpyrrolidone coated silver nanoparticles (PVP-AgNPs) were applied at different concentrations to reduce total nitrogen (TN) losses and the mechanisms of nitrogen bio-transformation were investigated in terms of the nitrogen functional enzymes and genes. Results showed that mineral N in pile 3 which was treated with AgNPs at a concentration of 10 mg/kg compost was the highest (6.58 g/kg dry weight (DW) compost) and the TN loss (47.07%) was the lowest at the end of composting. Correlation analysis indicated that TN loss was significantly correlated with amoA abundance. High throughput sequencing showed that the dominant family of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) was Nitrosomonadaceae, and the number of Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) reduced after the beginning of composting when compared with day 1. In summary, treatment with AgNPs at a concentration of 10 mg/kg compost was considerable to reduce TN losses and reserve more mineral N during composting.
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- Guangming Zeng
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control, Hunan University, Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, PR China.
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control, Hunan University, Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, PR China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control, Hunan University, Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, PR China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control, Hunan University, Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, PR China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, PR China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control, Hunan University, Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, PR China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control, Hunan University, Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, PR China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control, Hunan University, Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, PR China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control, Hunan University, Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, PR China
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Zhou X, Wu F. Vanillic acid changed cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) seedling rhizosphere total bacterial, Pseudomonas and Bacillus spp. communities. Sci Rep 2018; 8:4929. [PMID: 29563548 PMCID: PMC5862977 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-23406-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2017] [Accepted: 03/12/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Soil microorganisms are key drivers of plant productivity in terrestrial ecosystems, yet controls on their diversities and abundances are not fully elucidated. Phenolic acids, released through plant root exudation and residues decomposition, are usually referred as autotoxins of several crops, including cucumber. In this study, effects of vanillic acid (VA) on cucumber rhizosphere microbial communities were investigated by treating cucumber seedlings with VA every two days for five times. Amplicon sequencing, PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and quantitative PCR were used to analyzed the 16S rRNA genes of total bacterial, Pseudomonas and Bacillus spp. communities. Results showed that VA at 0.05 μmol g−1 soil changed total bacterial community diversity and composition. In particular, VA inhibited the relative abundances of genera with plant-beneficial potentials, such as Bacillus and Lysobacter spp. Moreover, VA changed Pseudomonas and Bacillus spp. community compositions by altering the number and/or relative abundances of their OTUs; and decreased Bacillus spp. community abundance at 0.02 to 0.2 μmol g−1 soil and Pseudomonas spp. community abundance at 0.2 μmol g−1 soil. Overall, VA changed cucumber seedling rhizosphere total bacterial, Pseudomonas and Bacillus spp. communities, which maybe be associated with the adverse effects of VA on cucumber growth under soil conditions.
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- Xingang Zhou
- Department of Horticulture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China.,Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (Northeast Region), Ministry of Agriculture, Harbin, China
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- Department of Horticulture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China. .,Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (Northeast Region), Ministry of Agriculture, Harbin, China.
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El-Fadel M, Sleem F, Hashisho J, Saikaly PE, Alameddine I, Ghanimeh S. Impact of SRT on the performance of MBRs for the treatment of high strength landfill leachate. WASTE MANAGEMENT (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2018; 73:165-180. [PMID: 29249308 DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2017.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2017] [Revised: 11/24/2017] [Accepted: 12/05/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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This study examines the performance and fouling potential of flat sheet (FS) and hollow fiber (HF) membrane bioreactors (MBRs) during the treatment of high strength landfill leachate under varying solid retention times (SRT = 5-20 days). Mixed-liquor bacterial communities were examined over time using 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis in an attempt to define linkages between the system performance and the microbial community composition. Similarly, biofilm samples were collected at the end of each SRT to characterize the microbial communities that evolved on the surface of the FS and HF membranes. In general, both systems exhibited comparable removal efficiencies that dropped significantly as SRT was decreased down to 5 days. Noticeably, ammonia and nitrite oxidizing bacteria were not detected at the tested SRTs. This suggests that the nitrifiers were not enriched, possibly due to the high organic and ammonium content of the leachate that led to low TN and NH3 removal efficiency. The steady-state fouling rate of both membranes increased linearly with the decrease in SRT at an estimated factor of 1.1 and 1.2 for the FS- and HF-MBR, respectively, when the SRT was reduced from 15 to 10 days and from 10 to 5 days. Similar dominant genera were detected in both MBRs, including Pseudomonas, Aequorivita, Ulvibacter, Taibaiella, and Thermus. Aequorivita, Taibaiella; Thermus were the dominant genera in the biofilms. Hierarchical clustering and non-metric multidimensional scaling revealed that while the mixed liquor communities in the FS-MBR and HF-MBRs were dynamic, they clustered separately. Similarly, biofilm communities on the FS and HF membranes differed in the dynamic bacterial community structure, especially for the FS-MBR; however this was less dynamic than the mixed liquor community.
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- M El-Fadel
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
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- Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, Water Desalination and Reuse Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Notre Dame University-Louaize, Lebanon
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Han X, Zhou Z, Mei X, Ma Y, Xie Z. Influence of fermentation liquid from waste activated sludge on anoxic/oxic- membrane bioreactor performance: Nitrogen removal, membrane fouling and microbial community. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2018; 250:699-707. [PMID: 29220815 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.11.090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2017] [Revised: 11/25/2017] [Accepted: 11/27/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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In order to investigate effects of waste activated sludge (WAS) fermentation liquid on anoxic/oxic- membrane bioreactor (A/O-MBR), two A/O-MBRs with and without WAS fermentation liquid addition were operated in parallel. Results show that addition of WAS fermentation liquid clearly improved denitrification efficiency without deterioration of nitrification, while severe membrane fouling occurred. WAS fermentation liquid resulted in an elevated production of proteins and humic acids in bound extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) and release of organic matter with high MW fractions in soluble microbial product (SMP) and loosely bound EPS (LB-EPS). Measurement of deposition rate and fluid structure confirmed increased fouling potential of SMP and LB-EPS. γ-Proteobacteria and Ferruginibacter, which can secrete and export EPS, were also found to be abundant in the MBR with WAS fermentation liquid. It is implied that when WAS fermentation liquid was applied, some operational steps to control membrane fouling should be employed.
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- Xiaomeng Han
- Shanghai Urban Water Resources Development and Utilization National Engineering Center Co. Ltd., Shanghai 200082, China; State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, China
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- College of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 200090, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, China
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- Shanghai Urban Water Resources Development and Utilization National Engineering Center Co. Ltd., Shanghai 200082, China
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- Shanghai Urban Water Resources Development and Utilization National Engineering Center Co. Ltd., Shanghai 200082, China
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Microbiome analysis and -omics studies of microbial denitrification processes in wastewater treatment: recent advances. SCIENCE CHINA-LIFE SCIENCES 2018; 61:753-761. [DOI: 10.1007/s11427-017-9228-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2017] [Accepted: 11/22/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Liu X, Yin H, Tang S, Feng M, Peng H, Lu G, Liu Z, Dang Z. Effects of single and combined copper/perfluorooctane sulfonate on sequencing batch reactor process and microbial community in activated sludge. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2017; 238:407-415. [PMID: 28458174 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.04.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2017] [Revised: 04/10/2017] [Accepted: 04/12/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Long-term exposure experiments with single and combined pollutants of copper (Cu)/perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) were conducted to explore the influence on activated sludge in SBRs. Compared with the control, the removal of organics, nitrogen and phosphorus in the presence of PFOS exhibited no apparent difference, but reduced in different degrees when Cu and Cu/PFOS existed. PFOS exposure deteriorated the settling performance of activated sludge with SVI value and amount of extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) increasing, but posed little impacts on microbial activity (dehydrogenase, protease) and antioxidant activity (SOD, CAT). Under Cu and Cu/PFOS loading, dehydrogenase and protease activity were observed to decrease as well as SOD and CAT activity. The sequencing results revealed that bacterial richness and community diversity reduced under Cu and Cu/PFOS exposure. Overall, adverse effect of combined pollution was lower than that of single Cu in long-time due to antagonistic effect existed between Cu and PFOS.
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- Xintong Liu
- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education on Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, Guangdong Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center for Environmental Risk Prevention and Emergency Disposal, School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education on Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, Guangdong Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center for Environmental Risk Prevention and Emergency Disposal, School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education on Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, Guangdong Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center for Environmental Risk Prevention and Emergency Disposal, School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education on Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, Guangdong Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center for Environmental Risk Prevention and Emergency Disposal, School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, Guangdong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education on Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, Guangdong Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center for Environmental Risk Prevention and Emergency Disposal, School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education on Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, Guangdong Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center for Environmental Risk Prevention and Emergency Disposal, School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education on Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, Guangdong Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center for Environmental Risk Prevention and Emergency Disposal, School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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Jurczyk Ł, Koc-Jurczyk J. Quantitative dynamics of ammonia-oxidizers during biological stabilization of municipal landfill leachate pretreated by Fenton's reagent at neutral pH. WASTE MANAGEMENT (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2017; 63:310-326. [PMID: 28159310 DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2017.01.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2016] [Revised: 01/04/2017] [Accepted: 01/17/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The application of multi-stage systems including biological step, for the treatment of leachate from municipal landfills, is economically and technologically justified. When microbial activity is utilized as 2nd stage of treatment, the task of 1st stage is to increase the bioavailability of organic matter. In this work, the effect of advanced oxidation process by Fenton's reagent for treatment efficiency of landfill leachate in the sequencing batch reactor was assessed. The quantitative dynamics of bacteria taking a part in ammonia removal process was evaluated by determination of number of DNA copies of 16S rRNA and amoA. Products of neutral pH chemical oxidation, had a definite positive impact on the quantity of β-proteobacteria 16S rRNA, whereas the same gene specified for Nitrospira sp. as well as amoA did not show a significant increase during the process of biological treatment, regardless of whether the reactor was fed with raw leachate or chemically pre-treated.
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- Łukasz Jurczyk
- University of Rzeszow, Department of Biology and Agriculture, Cwiklinskiej 1b Str., 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland.
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- University of Rzeszow, Department of Biology and Agriculture, Cwiklinskiej 1b Str., 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland
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