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Xu L, Chen Y, Wang Z, Zhang Y, He Y, Zhang A, Chen H, Xue G. Discovering dominant ammonia assimilation: Implication for high-strength nitrogen removal in full scale biological treatment of landfill leachate. CHEMOSPHERE 2023; 312:137256. [PMID: 36395888 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.137256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2022] [Revised: 10/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Landfill leachate containing high-strength nitrogen is generated in domestic waste landfilling. The integration of anoxic and aerobic process (AO) based on nitrification and denitrification, has been a mainstream process of biological nitrogen removal (BNR). But the high-strength organics as well as aerobic effluent reflux might change the biochemical environment designed and operated as AO. In view of the nitrogen balance in a full scale landfill leachate treatment plant with two-stage AO, we found that approximately 90% removal of total nitrogen (TN) and ammonia (NH4+-N) focused on primary anoxic and aerobic stage. Meanwhile, the less nitrate and nitrite in the aerobic effluent were incapable of sustaining denitrification or anaerobic ammonia oxidation (anammox). The high reflux flow from aerobic to anoxic process enabled the similar microbial community and functional genes in anoxic and aerobic process units. However, the functional genes involving ammonia assimilation in all process units showcased the highest abundance compared to those correlated with other BNR pathways, including nitrification and denitrification, assimilatory and dissimilatory nitrate reduction, nitrogen fixation and anammox. The ammonia assimilation dominated the removals of TN and NH4+-N, rather than other BNR mechanism. The insight of dominant ammonia assimilation is favorable for illustrating the authentic BNR mechanism of landfill leachate in AO, thereby guiding the optimization of engineering design and operation.
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- Lei Xu
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, China; Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai, 200000, China.
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Tian Y, Li J, Fan Y, Li J, Meng J. Performance and nitrogen removal mechanism in a novel aerobic-microaerobic combined process treating manure-free piggery wastewater. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2022; 345:126494. [PMID: 34883191 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.126494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2021] [Revised: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 11/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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A novel combined sequencing batch reactor (SBR) - up-flow microaerobic sludge reactor (UMSR) process was developed to treat manure-free piggery wastewater characterized by low COD/TN ratio and high NH4+-N. The front-end SBR was designed to get an effluent with COD/TN ≤ 1 by removing COD, allowing the back-end UMSR to practice anammox for the simultaneous removal of TN and NH4+-N. Fed with the raw piggery wastewater, the combined SBR-UMSR process was started up at 27℃ with a reflux ratio of 15:1 in the UMSR. After 230-days running, the removal of COD, TN, and NH4+-N in the combined SBR-UMSR process reached 78.41%,85.05%, and 92.21%, respectively. 50.22% of COD in the wastewater was removed in the SBR, while 87.11% of NH4+-N and 79.69% of TN were removed in the UMSR. Stoichiometry and bacterial function analysis revealed that the partial nitrification - anammox process was the dominant nitrogen removal approach in the UMSR.
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- Yajie Tian
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China.
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Xu PP, Meng J, Li X, Li J, Sun K, Liu BF, Zheng M. Insights into complete nitrate removal in one-stage nitritation-anammox by coupling heterotrophic denitrification. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2021; 298:113431. [PMID: 34352480 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2021] [Revised: 07/20/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Nitritation-anammox has been considered to be the most promising process for nitrogen (N) removal from wastewater. However, the anammox reaction still produces an amount of nitrate, which cannot be removed further. This study hypothesizes that heterotrophic denitrification can be an appealing option to remove the residual nitrate in the one-stage nitritation-anammox process. Through monitoring N-removal performance and microbial community succession of a laboratory microaerobic reactor, the effect of four different levels of oxygen supply on nitrate removal was investigated. The reactor was continuously fed with real manure-free piggery wastewater containing ~240 mg NH4+-N/L and chemical oxygen demand (COD)/total nitrogen (TN) ratio of less than 1 for 180 days. With a high influent loading rate of 0.7 kg N/(m3·d), efficient total nitrogen removal (>80 %) was achieved during stable operation of dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations between 0.3 and 0.6 mg O2/L, indicating N-removal via the nitritation-anammox pathway in the low-carbon wastewater treatment. At the same time, the effluent nitrate reduced with decreased oxygen supply and completely depleted at DO of 0.3 ± 0.1 mg O2/L. In addition to oxygen, preventing ammonia nitrogen from falling to very low levels (<10 mg/L) could be also useful for the complete nitrate removal and stable nitritation-anammox. 16S rRNA gene-based analyses confirmed a complex microbial community including nitrifiers, denitrifiers and anammox bacteria in the biomass of the reactor. Collectively, this study provides new insights into high-level N-removal of a nitritation-anammox process by complete nitrate depletion.
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- Pian-Pian Xu
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin, 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin, 150090, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin, 150090, PR China
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin, 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin, 150090, PR China
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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Sun Z, Li J, Fan Y, Meng J, Deng K. Efficiency and mechanism of nitrogen removal from piggery wastewater in an improved microaerobic process. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 774:144925. [PMID: 33610988 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2020] [Revised: 12/12/2020] [Accepted: 12/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Characterized by high ammonium (NH4+ - N) and low ratio of chemical oxygen demand (COD) to total nitrogen (COD/TN), discharge of piggery wastewater has been identified as a primary pollution source resulting in water eutrophication. An improved microaerobic reactor, internal aerating microaerobic reactor (IAMR), was constructed to treat manure-free piggery wastewater without effluent recycle at dissolved oxygen of 0.3 mg/L and 32 °C. A removal rate of COD, NH4+ - N and TN averaged 77.9%, 94.6% and 82.6% was obtained in the reactor, with the concentration of 258.5, 235.5 and 335.2 mg/L in influent, respectively. 16S rDNA amplicon sequencing, carbon and nitrogen mass balance and stoichiometry indicated that heterotrophic nitrification-anammox was the dominant approach to nitrogen removal. Microbiome phenotypes showed that aerobic bacteria were the dominant microorganisms, and the microbiome oxidative stress tolerance was intensified along with the continuous operation of the IAMR, resulting in the survival of various facultative and anaerobic bacteria for nutrients removal. With the good nutrients removal, less energy consumption, and high tolerance to influent fluctuation, the improved IAMR was confirmed as a promising process for treating wastewater with high NH4+ - N and low COD/TN.
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- Zhenju Sun
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China
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Burov VE, Li J, Meng J. Nitrogen removal from domestic wastewater in a novel hybrid anoxic-oxic biofilm reactor at different reflux ratios. WATER ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH : A RESEARCH PUBLICATION OF THE WATER ENVIRONMENT FEDERATION 2021; 93:865-874. [PMID: 33155359 DOI: 10.1002/wer.1477] [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: 10/08/2020] [Revised: 10/25/2020] [Accepted: 10/30/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A lab-scale hybrid anoxic-oxic biofilm reactor (HAOBR) with one anoxic compartment and two oxic compartments in sequence was constructed to treat domestic wastewater in this study. Performance of the HAOBR was evaluated at 25°C and hydraulic retention time 12 hr with reflux ratio increased from 100% to 300% by stages. The results showed that COD, NH 4 + - N , and TN removal presented an increasing trend with the increase of reflux ratio by stages. At the optimal reflux ratio of 300%, removal of COD, NH 4 + - N , and TN averaged 83.9%, 99.0%, and 80.8%, respectively. Analysis about pollutant concentration in each compartment of the HAOBR revealed that the excellent pollutant removal was mainly achieved by the cooperation of nitrification in 3rd oxic compartment and denitrification in 1st anoxic compartment. Denitrification in the anoxic zone of 2nd oxic compartment would also contribute to the nitrogen removal. The higher nitrogen removal of the HAOBR at the reflux ratio of 300% is attributed to the presence of the anammox in the 1st anoxic compartment, which is mainly due to the lower COD concentration in the compartment at the higher reflux ratio. PRACTITIONER POINTS: A hybrid anoxic-oxic baffled reactor was built to treat domestic wastewater. Effect of reflux ratio and mechanism of nitrogen removal were investigated. Reflux ratio 300% was favorable for COD, NH 4 + and TN removal. The removal of COD, NH 4 + and TN averaged 84.4%, 99.0% and 80.8%, respectively. Cooperation of nitrification, denitrification and anammox dominated the high nitrogen removal at the higher reflux ratio of 300%.
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- Vladimir E Burov
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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Sun H, Shi W, Cai C, Ge S, Ma B, Li X, Ding J. Responses of microbial structures, functions, metabolic pathways and community interactions to different C/N ratios in aerobic nitrification. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2020; 311:123422. [PMID: 32413636 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.123422] [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: 03/07/2020] [Revised: 04/17/2020] [Accepted: 04/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The responses of microbial structures, functional profiles and metabolic pathways during nitrification to four C/N ratios (0, 5, 10 and 15) were investigated in four parallel SBRs denoted as S0, S5, S10, S15. Results indicated that microbial diversities were affected by C/N ratios, while the same dominant taxa were observed, mainly including Proteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, Rhodocyclales, Rhodocyclaceae, Zoogloea. The unique biomarkers were identified in each sludge sample through LEfSe analysis. Functional genera/enzymes responsible for removing organics and nitrogen coexisted in four SBRs at different abundances, except for that ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) Nitrosomonas (0.33%-0.66%) and ammonia monooxygenase (amo) (9.4 × 10-7-2.8 × 10-6) were only detected in S0. Moreover, PICRUSt analysis indicated similar overall patterns of metabolic pathways in four sludge samples. The network analysis revealed that total nitrogen removal positively correlated with hcp (Spearman's ρ of 0.853), and ammonia oxidizing rate was associated with amo (Spearman's ρ of 0.096).
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- Hongwei Sun
- School of Environmental and Material Engineering, Yantai University, Yantai, Shandong, 264005, China
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- School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Chemical Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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- College of Environment and Ecology, Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
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- School of Environmental and Material Engineering, Yantai University, Yantai, Shandong, 264005, China.
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- School of Environmental and Material Engineering, Yantai University, Yantai, Shandong, 264005, China
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Zhao B, Xie F, Zhang X, Yue X. Enhancing the nitrogen removal from swine wastewater digested liquid in a trickling biofilter with a soil layer. RSC Adv 2020; 10:23782-23791. [PMID: 35517362 PMCID: PMC9054833 DOI: 10.1039/d0ra03333b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2020] [Accepted: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Trickling biofilters (TFs) allow for a simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) process, and offer a favorable solution for the treatment of swine-wastewater digested liquid due to their simple operation and low cost. In this study, a soil trickling biofilter (STF) was developed to enhance nitrogen removal. A gravel trickling filter (GTF) and a woodchip trickling filter (WTF) were also constructed and operated synchronously to demonstrate the advantage of micron-sized media. The results showed that the STF had a higher ammonium nitrogen (NH4 +-N) removal capacity of 21.4%, 24.9%, and 18.3% in comparison to the GTF when the influent NH4 +-N was 192.9 mg L-1, 500.2 mg L-1 and 802.1 mg L-1, respectively. The total nitrogen (TN) removal capacity of the STF was 104.6%, 89.4%, and 37.5% higher than that of the WTF. Thus, the addition of micron-sized soil to TF could increase the systemic nitrogen removal capacity.
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- Bowei Zhao
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology 79 Yingzexi Road Taiyuan 030000 P. R. China +86 0351-3176586
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology 79 Yingzexi Road Taiyuan 030000 P. R. China +86 0351-3176586
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology 79 Yingzexi Road Taiyuan 030000 P. R. China +86 0351-3176586
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology 79 Yingzexi Road Taiyuan 030000 P. R. China +86 0351-3176586
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Meng J, Li J, Li J, Nan J, Zheng M. The effects of influent and operational conditions on nitrogen removal in an upflow microaerobic sludge blanket system: A model-based evaluation. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2020; 295:122225. [PMID: 31629283 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2019] [Revised: 09/29/2019] [Accepted: 10/01/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Recently, upflow microaerobic sludge blanket (UMSB) system has been developed to remove ammonium and organic matter simultaneously. This study aims to establish influent and operational conditions promoting anammox-based nitrogen removal process in the UMSB reactor by using a modified Activated Sludge Model. Experiments were performed on a laboratory-scale UMSB reactor treated piggery wastewater for over two years. With the experimentally determined model parameters, the established model well simulated the UMSB reactor performance. The maximum anammox growth rate was calibrated to be 0.41 d-1 at 35 °C. Further simulations showed that UMSB reactor operated with high influent organics or nitrogen loading rates at temperature above 15 °C can achieve efficient nitrogen removal (>70%). The nitrogen loading over 0.6 kg N/(m3·d)) significantly favors anammox activity. UMSB could also be a promising system for nitrogen removal from low-strength ammonium wastewater with fluctuated COD influence. These results provide support to UMSB design and operational optimization.
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- Jia Meng
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
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Deng K, Tang L, Li J, Meng J, Li J. Practicing anammox in a novel hybrid anaerobic-aerobic baffled reactor for treating high-strength ammonium piggery wastewater with low COD/TN ratio. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 294:122193. [PMID: 31610495 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2019] [Revised: 09/19/2019] [Accepted: 09/23/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A novel hybrid anaerobic-aerobic baffled reactor (HAOBR) with four compartments was constructed to treat manure-free piggery wastewater with an average COD/TN ratio as low as 0.98, without any supplement of external carbon source. Inoculated with aerobic activated sludge and operated at hydraulic retention time 36 h, 32 °C and reflux ratio 2.0, the reactor could perform steadily within 24 days. The removal of COD, NH4+-N and TN within the 21-days steady phase averaged 87.0%, 100% and 91.3%, respectively. Analysis of stoichiometry and results of high-throughput pyrosequencing revealed that the excellent nitrogen removal in the HAOBR was achieved by the cooperation of heterotrophic and autotrophic denitrification with anammox as the dominant approach. Compared with the previously developed microaerobic treatment processes and the recently reported modified A/O process, the HAOBR was more cost-efficient in treating manure-free piggery wastewater because of the less energy consumption, rapid startup process and efficient nutrients removal.
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- Kaiwen Deng
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China.
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Zhang X, Zhao B, Yue X, Li F, Kong X, Ma X, Li H. Effect of the method of falling water aeration-reflux on nitrogen removal and applicability in a novel upflow microaerobic sludge reactor treating low carbon-to-nitrogen ratio wastewater. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 285:121304. [PMID: 31022575 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.03.143] [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: 01/29/2019] [Revised: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 03/29/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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A novel falling water aeration-external reflux upflow microaerobic sludge reactor (UMSR) was designed to treat wastewater with the low chemical oxygen demand (COD) to total nitrogen (TN) ratio. The result showed the concentration of dissolved oxygen (DO) in the reactor could be accurately controlled by adjusting the reflux ratio of oxygenated water. The higher aeration efficiency in pollutant removal could be obtained by the reoxygenation mode of the small height falling water. At the reflux ratio of 5:1, the ammonium, nitrite and nitrate nitrogen concentrations in the effluent of UMSR were 6.0, 0.4 and 6.1 mg/L on average, respectively. The removal efficiency of ammonium nitrogen and total nitrogen reached 90.53% and 80.77%, respectively with the influent COD/TN as being 1.0. The structure of the microbial community confirmed the existence of partial-denitrification/anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria, autotrophic and heterotrophic denitrifiers contributed to nitrogen and carbon removal in UMSR.
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- Xiao Zhang
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, PR China; River Basin Research Center, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, PR China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, PR China.
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- River Basin Research Center, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, PR China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, PR China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, PR China
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Antwi P, Zhang D, Luo W, Xiao LW, Meng J, Kabutey FT, Ayivi F, Li J. Performance, microbial community evolution and neural network modeling of single-stage nitrogen removal by partial-nitritation/anammox process. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 284:359-372. [PMID: 30954904 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2019] [Revised: 03/01/2019] [Accepted: 03/04/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Single-stage nitrogen removal by anammox/partial-nitritation (SNAP) process was proposed and explored in a packed-bed-EGSB reactor to treat nitrogen-rich wastewater. With dissolved oxygen (DO) maintained within 0.2-0.5 mg/L, reactor performance and microbial community dynamics were evaluated and reported. To ascertain whether control/prediction of the SNAP process was feasible with mathematical modeling, a novel 3-layered backpropagation-artificial-neural-network-(BANN) was also developed to model nitrogen removal efficiencies. When NLR of 300 gN/m3·d and DO of <0.3 mg/L was employed, the SNAP-process demonstrated autotrophic nitrogen removal pathways with NH4+-N and TN removal of 91.1% and 81.9%, respectively. Microbial community succession revealed by 16S rRNA high-throughput gene-sequencing indicated that Candidatus-Kuenenia-(33.83%), Nitrosomonas-(3.4%) Armatimonadetes_gp5-(1.39%), Ignavibacterium-(1.80%), Thiobacillus-(1.33%), and Nitrospira-(1.17%) were the most pronounced genera at steady-state. The proposed BANN-model demonstrated high-performance as computational results revealed smaller deviations (±3%) and satisfactory coefficient of determination-(R2 = 0.989), fractional variance-(FV = 0.0107), and index of agreement-(IA = 0.997). Thus, forecasting the efficiency of a SNAP-process with neural-network modeling was highly feasible.
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- Philip Antwi
- Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Jiangxi Province, Ganzhou City 341000, PR China
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- Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Jiangxi Province, Ganzhou City 341000, PR China.
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- Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Jiangxi Province, Ganzhou City 341000, PR China
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- Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Jiangxi Province, Ganzhou City 341000, PR China
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- Harbin Institute of Technology, School of Environmental, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- Harbin Institute of Technology, School of Environmental, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- Fayetteville State University, Department of Geography, 1200 Murchison Road, Fayetteville, NC 28301, USA
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- Harbin Institute of Technology, School of Environmental, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China
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Zheng M, Han Y, Han H, Xu C, Zhang Z, Ma W. Synergistic degradation on phenolic compounds of coal pyrolysis wastewater (CPW) by lignite activated coke-active sludge (LAC-AS) process: Insights into succession of microbial community under selective pressure. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 281:126-134. [PMID: 30818263 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.02.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2019] [Revised: 02/12/2019] [Accepted: 02/15/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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This study illustrated synergistic degradation of phenolic compounds by LAC-AS process via the insight into succession of microbial community under selective pressure. The results demonstrated that high phenols exhibited toxicity pressure to single AS process by eliminating non-tolerate bacteria, inducing vicious circulation by intermediates (catechol, nitrate, etc.) accumulation. However, LAC exerted another selective pressure and facilitated positive bio-community succession of moving biological bed reactor (MBBR). Firstly, it created rich microenvironments for diverse bacteria and promoted resilient adsorption for phenols with the assistance of biodegradation. Secondly, LAC enriched facultative bacteria, which developed multiple degradation paths on phenols and nitrogen based on multifunctional genes, counteracting the toxicity pressure. Specifically, phenols were degraded by the combination of anaerobic hydrolysis and oxidation, while conventional and shortcut nitrification-denitrification (SND) and nitrogen fixation all participated in nitrogen removal, achieving high removal of COD (93.49%), Tph (93.74%), TN (92.20%) and NH4+-N (93.20%) under the highest phenols.
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- Mengqi Zheng
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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- School of Engineering, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China.
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Pichel A, Moreno R, Figueroa M, Campos JL, Mendez R, Mosquera-Corral A, Val del Rio A. How to cope with NOB activity and pig manure inhibition in a partial nitritation-anammox process? Sep Purif Technol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2018.11.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Wang S, Ma X, Wang Y, Du G, Tay JH, Li J. Piggery wastewater treatment by aerobic granular sludge: Granulation process and antibiotics and antibiotic-resistant bacteria removal and transport. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 273:350-357. [PMID: 30448688 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.11.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2018] [Revised: 11/03/2018] [Accepted: 11/05/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The aim of this work was to study the responses of aerobic granulation process to antibiotics and investigate the antibiotics and antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) removal and transport. Results showed that aerobic granular sludge (AGS) was dominant in the bioreactor at day 45, and the relatively high protein content from tightly bound extracellular polymeric substances (TB-EPS) facilitated aerobic granulation and maintained biomass stabilization. The protein contents in EPS and TB-EPS were positively correlated with relative hydrophobicity, thereby improving the adsorption capacity among hydrophobic particles. The chemical oxygen demand (COD), NH3-N, and total N removal efficiencies were 98.0%, 97.0%, and 92.4%, respectively. Five antibiotics, including kanamycin, tetracycline, ciprofloxacin, ampicillin, and erythromycin, were examined in piggery wastewater, with concentrations up to the concentration range of 29.4-44.1 µg/l, and the total antibiotics removal rate reached up to 88.4% ± 4.5%. A total of 5.2% of the total antibiotics were discharged from bioreactor, and 62.5% of the total antibiotics were degraded, and 32.3% of total antibiotics were adsorbed by aerobic granules. The presence of antibiotics rarely exhibited an influence on AGS formation, and the relatively high microbial activity of aerobic granules was beneficial to antibiotics removal. The ARB removal rate increased up to 89.4% ± 3.3%, but a large amount of ARB was enriched in aerobic granules.
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- Shuo Wang
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Anaerobic Biotechnology, School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China; Jiangsu College of Water Treatment Technology and Material Collaborative Innovation Center, Suzhou 215009, China; Department of Civil Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Anaerobic Biotechnology, School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Anaerobic Biotechnology, School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Ministry Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Anaerobic Biotechnology, School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China; Jiangsu College of Water Treatment Technology and Material Collaborative Innovation Center, Suzhou 215009, China.
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Meng J, Li J, Li J, Nan J, Deng K, Antwi P. Effect of temperature on nitrogen removal and biological mechanism in an up-flow microaerobic sludge reactor treating wastewater rich in ammonium and lack in carbon source. CHEMOSPHERE 2019; 216:186-194. [PMID: 30368083 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.10.132] [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: 07/25/2018] [Revised: 09/25/2018] [Accepted: 10/17/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Previous study has demonstrated that microaerobic process is effective in nitrogen removal from the wastewater with high ammonium and low carbon to nitrogen ratio. In the microaerobic system, synergistic action of anammox, ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB), nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB) and denitrifiers was the key issues to remove nitrogen from the wastewater rich in ammonium. Temperature has a significant effect on specific growth rate and activity of various nitrogen removal functional bacteria. In this study, the effect of temperature (35 °C-15 °C) on nitrogen removal were investigated in an up-flow microaerobic sludge reactor (UMSR) at the HRT of 8 h and reflux ratio of 45. Above 71.2% of total nitrogen (TN) and 80.7% of NH4+ removal efficiencies were observed at the temperature no less than 17 °C. With the temperature further decreasing to 15 °C, denitrifiers still dominant the UMSR, but AOB, NOB and Candidatus Brocadia as the predominant anammox bacteria were inhibited revealed by high throughput sequencing, resulting in the decrease of TN and NH4+ removal to 39.7% and 61.8%, respectively. Fortunately, when the temperature rebounded to 20 °C, a higher TN and NH4+ removal of 81.2% and 97.3% were obtained again in the UMSR.
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- Jia Meng
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China; Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China.
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- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou 341000, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, PR China.
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Meng J, Li J, Li J, Astals S, Nan J, Deng K, Antwi P, Xu P. The role of COD/N ratio on the start-up performance and microbial mechanism of an upflow microaerobic reactor treating piggery wastewater. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2018; 217:825-831. [PMID: 29660708 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.04.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2018] [Revised: 03/22/2018] [Accepted: 04/06/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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This study investigated the role of COD/N ratio on the start-up and performance of an upflow microaerobic sludge reactor (UMSR) treating piggery wastewater at 0.5 mgO2/L. At high COD/N ratio (6.24 and 4.52), results showed that the competition for oxygen between ammonia-oxidizing bacteria, nitrite-oxidizing bacteria and heterotrophic bacteria limited the removal of nitrogen. Nitrogen removal efficiency was below 40% in both scenarios. Decreasing the influent COD/N ratio to 0.88 allowed achieving high removal efficiencies for COD (∼75%) and nitrogen (∼85%) due to the lower oxygen consumption for COD mineralization. Molecular biology techniques showed that nitrogen conversion at a COD/N ratio 0.88 was dominated by the anammox pathway and that Candidatus Brocadia sp. was the most important anammox bacteria in the reactor with a relative abundance of 58.5% among the anammox bacteria. Molecular techniques also showed that Nitrosomonas spp. was the major ammonia-oxidiser bacteria (relative abundance of 86.3%) and that denitrification via NO3- and NO2- also contributed to remove nitrogen from the system.
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- Jia Meng
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin, 150090, PR China; Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin, 150090, PR China.
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin, 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin, 150090, PR China
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- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, 341000, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin, 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin, 150090, PR China
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