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Chan-Pacheco CR, Valenzuela EI, Cervantes FJ, Quijano G. Novel biotechnologies for nitrogen removal and their coupling with gas emissions abatement in wastewater treatment facilities. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 797:149228. [PMID: 34346385 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2021] [Revised: 07/16/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Wastewaters contaminated with nitrogenous pollutants, derived from anthropogenic activities, have exacerbated our ecosystems sparking environmental problems, such as eutrophication and acidification of water reservoirs, emission of greenhouse gases, death of aquatic organisms, among others. Wastewater treatment facilities (WWTF) combining nitrification and denitrification, and lately partial nitrification coupled to anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox), have traditionally been applied for the removal of nitrogen from wastewaters. The present work provides a comprehensive review of the recent biotechnologies developed in which nitrogen-removing processes are relevant for the treatment of both wastewaters and gas emissions. These novel processes include the anammox process with alternative electron acceptors, such as sulfate (sulfammox), ferric iron (feammox), and anodes in microbial electrolysis cells (anodic anammox). New technologies that couple nitrate/nitrite reduction with the oxidation of methane, H2S, volatile methyl siloxanes, and other volatile organic compounds are also described. The potential of these processes for (i) minimizing greenhouse gas emissions from WWTF, (ii) biogas purification, and (iii) air pollution control is critically discussed considering the factors that might trigger N2O release during nitrate/nitrite reduction. Moreover, this review provides a discussion on the main challenges to tackle towards the consolidation of these novel biotechnologies.
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- Carlos R Chan-Pacheco
- Laboratory for Research on Advanced Processes for Water Treatment, Engineering Institute, Campus Juriquilla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Blvd. Juriquilla 3001, 76230 Querétaro, Mexico
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- Laboratory for Research on Advanced Processes for Water Treatment, Engineering Institute, Campus Juriquilla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Blvd. Juriquilla 3001, 76230 Querétaro, Mexico
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- Laboratory for Research on Advanced Processes for Water Treatment, Engineering Institute, Campus Juriquilla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Blvd. Juriquilla 3001, 76230 Querétaro, Mexico.
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- Laboratory for Research on Advanced Processes for Water Treatment, Engineering Institute, Campus Juriquilla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Blvd. Juriquilla 3001, 76230 Querétaro, Mexico.
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Muñoz-Palazon B, Rodriguez-Sanchez A, Hurtado-Martinez M, Gonzalez-Lopez J, Vahala R, Gonzalez-Martinez A. Evaluating the nitrogen-contaminated groundwater treatment by a denitrifying granular sludge bioreactor: effect of organic matter loading. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2021; 28:41351-41364. [PMID: 33783701 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-13648-5] [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: 10/26/2020] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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A sequential bed granular bioreactor was adapted to treat nitrate-polluted synthetic groundwater under anaerobic conditions and agitation with denitrification gas, achieving very efficient performance in total nitrogen removal at influent organic carbon concentrations of 1 g L-1 (80-90%) and 0.5 g L-1 (70-80%) sodium acetate, but concentrations below 0.5 g L-1 caused accumulation of nitrite and nitrate and led to system failure (30-40% removal). Biomass size and settling velocity were higher above 0.5 g L-1 sodium acetate. Trichosporonaceae dominated the fungal populations at all times, while a dominance of terrestrial group Thaumarchaeota and Acidovorax at 1 and 0.5 g L-1 passed to a domination of Methanobrevibacter and an unclassified Comamonadaceae clone for NaAc lower than 0.5 g L-1. The results obtained pointed out that the denitrifying granular sludge technology is a feasible solution for the treatment of nitrogen-contaminated groundwater, and that influent organic matter plays an important role on the conformation of microbial communities within it and, therefore, on the overall efficiency of the system.
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- Barbara Muñoz-Palazon
- Institute of Water Research, University of Granada, C/Ramon y Cajal, 4, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Institute of Water Research, University of Granada, C/Ramon y Cajal, 4, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Institute of Water Research, University of Granada, C/Ramon y Cajal, 4, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Built Environment, School of Engineering, Aalto University, P.O. Box 15200, Aalto, FI-00076, Espoo, Finland
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Cai X, Wen P, Yuan Y, Tang J, Yu Z, Zhou S. Identification of nitrogen-incorporating bacteria in a sequencing batch reactor: A combining cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent method. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2020; 316:123964. [PMID: 32795873 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.123964] [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: 07/07/2020] [Revised: 07/30/2020] [Accepted: 08/02/2020] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Nitrogen-incorporating bacteria in activated sludge play important roles in nitrogen removal in sequencing bactch reactor (SBR), but the active microorganisms and their interactions in the complex community are rarely revealed. Herein, a combining cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent methods associated with DNA-stable-isotope probing (SIP) was applied to determine the microbes responsible for nitrogen-incorporating in SBR. Results revealed that Cytophagaceae and Sphingobacteriales were identified to be involved in nitrification, and Anaerolineae, Plasticicumulans and Elusimicrobia were responsible for denitrification. Cultivable nitrobacter and denitrifiers were isolated from the activated sludge, but they did not participate in the nitrogen-incorporating based on the SIP results. Additionally, the molecular ecological network analysis indicated that the SIP-identified nitrogen-incorporating bacteria exhibited more links with the intra-community, which might explain the failure of isolating these active bacteria. These findings add understanding of the removal of nitrogenous compounds drived by nitrogen-incorporating bacteria in actual wastewater treatment process.
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- Xixi Cai
- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China; Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Guangdong Institute of Eco-environmental Science and Technology, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Health Risk Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Guangdong Institute of Eco-environmental Science and Technology, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China.
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Durán F, Robles Á, Giménez JB, Ferrer J, Ribes J, Serralta J. Modeling the anaerobic treatment of sulfate-rich urban wastewater: Application to AnMBR technology. WATER RESEARCH 2020; 184:116133. [PMID: 32721762 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.116133] [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: 03/13/2020] [Revised: 06/25/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Although anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBR) are a core technology in the transition of urban wastewater (UWW) treatment towards a circular economy, the transition is being held back by a number of bottlenecks. The dissolved methane released from the effluent, the need to remove nutrients (ideally by recovery), or the energy lost by the competition between methanogenic and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) for the biodegradable COD have been identified as the main issues to be addressed before AnMBR becomes widespread. Mathematical modeling of this technology can be used to obtain further insights into these bottlenecks plus other valuable information for design, simulation and control purposes. This paper therefore proposes an AnMBR anaerobic digestion model to simulate the crucial SRB-related process since these bacteria degrade more than 40% of the organic matter. The proposed model, which is included in the BNRM2 collection model, has a reduced but all-inclusive structure, including hydrolysis, acidogenesis, acetogenesis, methanogenesis and other SRB-related processes. It was calibrated and validated using data from an AnMBR pilot plant treating sulfate-rich UWW, including parameter values obtained in off-line experiments and optimization methods. Despite the complex operating dynamics and influent composition, it was able to reproduce the process performance. In fact, it was able to simulate the AD of sulfate-rich UWW considering only two groups of SRB: heterotrophic SRB growing on both VFA (propionate) and acetate, and autotrophic SRB growing on hydrogen. Besides the above-mentioned constraints, the model reproduced the dynamics of the mixed liquor solids concentration, which helped to integrate biochemical and filtration models. It also reproduced the alkalinity and pH dynamics in the mixed liquor required for assessing the effect of chemical precipitation on membrane scaling.
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- Freddy Durán
- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022, València, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100, Burjassot, València, Spain.
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022, València, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022, València, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100, Burjassot, València, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022, València, Spain
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Kinetic study and performance evaluation of an integrated two-phase fixed-film baffled bioreactor for bioenergy recovery from wastewater and bio-wasted sludge. RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2019.109674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Cantero D, Jara R, Navarrete A, Pelaz L, Queiroz J, Rodríguez-Rojo S, Cocero MJ. Pretreatment Processes of Biomass for Biorefineries: Current Status and Prospects. Annu Rev Chem Biomol Eng 2019; 10:289-310. [PMID: 30892926 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-060718-030354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
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This article seeks to be a handy document for the academy and the industry to get quickly up to speed on the current status and prospects of biomass pretreatment for biorefineries. It is divided into two biomass sources: vegetal and animal. Vegetal biomass is the material produced by plants on land or in water (algae), consuming sunlight, CO2, water, and soil nutrients. This includes residues or main products from, for example, intensive grass crops, forestry, and industrial and agricultural activities. Animal biomass is the residual biomass generated from the production of food from animals (e.g., manure and whey). This review does not mean to include every technology in the area, but it does evaluate physical pretreatments, microwave-assisted extraction, and water treatments for vegetal biomass. A general review is given for animal biomass based in physical, chemical, and biological pretreatments.
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- D Cantero
- BioEcoUVa, Research Institute on Bioeconomy, Group of High-Pressure Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology, University of Valladolid, Vallodolid 47011, Spain;
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- Department of Forestry, University of West Virginia, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- BETA Technological Center, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Vic, Barcelona 08500, Spain
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- Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos 13565-905, Brazil
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- BioEcoUVa, Research Institute on Bioeconomy, Group of High-Pressure Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology, University of Valladolid, Vallodolid 47011, Spain;
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- BioEcoUVa, Research Institute on Bioeconomy, Group of High-Pressure Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology, University of Valladolid, Vallodolid 47011, Spain;
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Robles Á, Ruano MV, Charfi A, Lesage G, Heran M, Harmand J, Seco A, Steyer JP, Batstone DJ, Kim J, Ferrer J. A review on anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBRs) focused on modelling and control aspects. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2018; 270:612-626. [PMID: 30253898 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.09.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2018] [Revised: 09/07/2018] [Accepted: 09/10/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The use of anaerobic membrane bioreactor technology (AnMBR) is rapidly expanding. However, depending on the application, AnMBR design and operation is not fully mature, and needs further research to optimize process efficiency and enhance applicability. This paper reviews state-of-the-art of AnMBR focusing on modelling and control aspects. Quantitative environmental and economic evaluation has demonstrated substantial advantages in application of AnMBR to domestic wastewater treatment, but detailed modelling is less mature. While anaerobic process modelling is generally mature, more work is needed on integrated models which include coupling between membrane performance (including fouling) and the biological process. This should include microbial factors, which are important to generation of specific foulants such as soluble and particulate inert organics. Mature and well-established control tools, including better feedback control strategies are also required for both the process, and for fouling control.
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- Ángel Robles
- CALAGUA, Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100 Burjassot, València, Spain.
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- CALAGUA, Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100 Burjassot, València, Spain
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- LG-Hitachi Water Solutions, B-1104 Daewoo Technopark, 261, Doyak-ro, Wonmi-gu, Bucheon-si, Gyeonggi-do 14523, South Korea
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- Institut Européen des Membranes, IEM, UMR 5635, ENSCM, CNRS, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Institut Européen des Membranes, IEM, UMR 5635, ENSCM, CNRS, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- LBE, Univ Montpellier, INRA, 102 avenue des Etangs, 11100 Narbonne, France
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- CALAGUA, Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100 Burjassot, València, Spain
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- Advanced Water Management Centre AWMC, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, South Korea
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- CALAGUA, Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient, IAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 València, Spain
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Proof of concept and improvement of a triple chamber biosystem coupling anaerobic digestion, nitrification and mixotrophic endogenous denitrification for organic matter, nitrogen and sulfide removal from domestic sewage. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 2018; 41:1839-1850. [DOI: 10.1007/s00449-018-2006-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2018] [Accepted: 09/05/2018] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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