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Hu X, Yang H, Fang X, Liu X, Bai Y, Su B, Chang J. High efficiency and stable partial nitration achieved via gel immobilization. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2024; 394:130262. [PMID: 38184090 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.130262] [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: 10/07/2023] [Revised: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/23/2023] [Indexed: 01/08/2024]
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Long-term high efficiency and stable partial nitrification (PN) performance was achieved using gel-immobilized partial nitrifying bacteria. The PN characteristics of the filler under high and low ammonia nitrogen concentrations and low temperature were comprehensively studied and the rapid reactivation was achieved after reactor breakdown or long stagnation period. The results showed that the maximum ammonia oxidation rate was 66.8 mg•(L•h)-1 and the nitrite accumulation rate was above 95 % for the filler. Efficient and stable PN performance depends on the high abundance of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) inside the filler and dynamically microbial community. In addition, the oxygen-limited zone and competition between the microorganisms inside the filler effectively inhibited the growth of nitrite oxidizing bacteria, and the sludge outside the filler assisted in this process, which supported the dominant position of AOB in fillers. This study provides a reliable technology for the practical application of the PN nitrogen removal process.
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- Xin Hu
- Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environmental Recovery Engineering, Faculty of Architecture, Civil and Transportation Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environmental Recovery Engineering, Faculty of Architecture, Civil and Transportation Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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- Beijing General Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd, Beijing 100044, China
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- Hebei GEO University, Shijiazhuang 050031, China
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- Beijing Drainage Group Co. Ltd, Beijing 100022, China
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- Beijing Drainage Group Co. Ltd, Beijing 100022, China
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- Beijing Drainage Group Co. Ltd, Beijing 100022, China
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Wu H, Wang G, Li L, Gao Z, Wang M, Wang J, Zhang Z, Wang A, Tian X, Li J. Partial nitritation and nitrogen removal of vacuum toilet wastewater from high-speed trains in a sequential batch reactor. CHEMOSPHERE 2023; 329:138657. [PMID: 37040837 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138657] [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: 12/22/2022] [Revised: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 04/08/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Owing to the high contents of organics and nitrogen in vacuum toilet wastewater (VTW) generated from high-speed trains, onsite pretreatment is usually required before VTW can be discharged into municipal sewers. In this study, a partial nitritation process was stably established in a sequential batch reactor to efficiently utilize the organics in synthetic and real VTWs for nitrogen removal and to produce an effluent suitable for anaerobic ammonia oxidation. In spite of the high fluctuations of COD and nitrogen in VTW, the organics used for nitrogen removal stabilized at 1.97 ± 0.18 mg COD mg N-1 removed, and the effluent NO2--N/NH4+-N ratios were maintained at 1.26 ± 0.13. The removal efficiencies of nitrogen and COD were 31.8 ± 3.5% and 65.2 ± 5.3% under the volumetric loading rates of 1.14 ± 0.15 kg N m-3 d-1 and 1.03 ± 0.26 kg COD m-3 d-1 for real VTW, respectively. Microbial community analysis revealed that Nitrosomonas (0.95%-1.71%) was the dominant autotrophic ammonium-oxidizing bacterial genus, but nitrite-oxidizing bacteria, Nitrolancea, was severely inhibited, with a relative abundance less than 0.05%. The relative abundance of denitrifying bacteria increased by 7.34% when the influent was switched to real VTW. Functional profile predictions of the biomass showed that the decrease in the COD/N ratio and the switch of reactor influent from synthetic to real VTW increased the relative abundance of enzymes and modules involved in carbon and nitrogen metabolisms.
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- Haoyuan Wu
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Aqueous Typical Pollutants Control and Water Quality Safeguard, School of Environment, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Aqueous Typical Pollutants Control and Water Quality Safeguard, School of Environment, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
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- Institute of Watershed and Ecology, Beijing Water Science and Technology Institute, Beijing, 100048, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Aqueous Typical Pollutants Control and Water Quality Safeguard, School of Environment, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Aqueous Typical Pollutants Control and Water Quality Safeguard, School of Environment, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Aqueous Typical Pollutants Control and Water Quality Safeguard, School of Environment, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
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- Institute of Resources and Environment, Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, Beijing, 100089, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Aqueous Typical Pollutants Control and Water Quality Safeguard, School of Environment, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Aqueous Typical Pollutants Control and Water Quality Safeguard, School of Environment, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Aqueous Typical Pollutants Control and Water Quality Safeguard, School of Environment, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China.
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Wang X, Yang H, Wang J. Gel-immobilized partial nitritation/anammox achieves reliable nitrogen removal at different concentrations of nitrogen and reactivation processes. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2023; 370:128561. [PMID: 36587771 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.128561] [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: 11/03/2022] [Revised: 12/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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A two-stage partial nitritation/anammox process based on microbial encapsulation (PN/A-E) was established. The nitrogen removal characteristics of PN/A-E under high and low ammonia nitrogen and after reactivation following a long-term shutdown were comprehensively investigated and compared with anammox granular sludge (AnGS). The stable PN process did not depend on high ammonia nitrogen, and the nitrite accumulation rate reached 95.2 ± 0.7 %. The overall nitrogen removal rate of encapsulated anammox bacteria was twice that of the AnGS, and it was more tolerant to external interference. Moreover, PN/A-E showed good reactivation performance, and the total nitrogen in the effluent was 10.0 ± 1.4 mg·L-1 when the final hydraulic retention time was 2.18 h. The immobilized fillers support an increase in ammonia-oxidizing bacteria under restricted conditions and were more conducive to the dominance of functional bacteria and the stability of microbial community under low ammonia nitrogen. This study provides a positive method to achieve a reliable PN/A.
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- XiaoTong Wang
- Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environmental Recovery Engineering, College of Architectural Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environmental Recovery Engineering, College of Architectural Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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- Department of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Hebei University of Architecture, Zhangjiakou 075000, China
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Kim J, Direstiyani LC, Jeong S, Kim Y, Park S, Yu J, Lee T. Feeding strategy for single-stage deammonification to treat moderate-strength ammonium under low free ammonia conditions. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 857:159661. [PMID: 36302418 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159661] [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: 05/28/2022] [Revised: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Single-stage deammonification (SSD) processes have been successfully operated using the step-feeding strategy to treat high-strength NH4+ (>300 mg/L), but often failed to treat moderate-strength NH4+ (100-300 mg/L). Because it is hard to maintain the free ammonia (FA) above 1 mg/L, which is a concentration in which the activity of NO2- oxidizing bacteria (NOB) can be selectively suppressed. In this study, to evaluate the effectiveness of the step-feeding strategy on the long-term stability of treating moderate-strength NH4+, two SSD sequential-batch reactors (SBRs) were operated under one-step feeding and multi-step feeding strategies. The one-step feeding SBR achieved a higher nitrogen removal efficiency (86 %), nitrogen removal rate (0.61 kg/m3/d), and COD removal efficiency (95 %) than the multi-step feeding SBR (73 %, 0.39 kg/m3/d, and 95 %, respectively). This means the appropriate FA to selectively suppress NOB activity was successfully maintained in the one-step feeding SBR (FA > 1 mg/L). Therefore, it the necessary to apply a step feed strategy that can be maintained above FA (1 mg/L) from the start-up of operation to treat moderate-strength NH4+.
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- Jeongmi Kim
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Depok 16424, Indonesia
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- Disaster Scientific Investigation Division, National Disaster Management Research Institute, Ulsan 44538, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea; Institute for Environment and Energy, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea.
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Vishnyakova A, Popova N, Artemiev G, Botchkova E, Litti Y, Safonov A. Effect of Mineral Carriers on Biofilm Formation and Nitrogen Removal Activity by an Indigenous Anammox Community from Cold Groundwater Ecosystem Alone and Bioaugmented with Biomass from a “Warm” Anammox Reactor. BIOLOGY 2022; 11:biology11101421. [PMID: 36290325 PMCID: PMC9598201 DOI: 10.3390/biology11101421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2022] [Revised: 09/24/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Simple Summary During more than 50 years of exploitation of the sludge repositories near Chepetsky Mechanical Plant (Glazov, Udmurtia, Russia) containing solid wastes of uranium and processed polymetallic concentrate, the soluble compounds entered the upper aquifer due to infiltration. Nowadays, this has resulted in a high level of pollution of the groundwater with reduced and oxidized nitrogen compounds. In this work, quartz, kaolin, and bentonite clays from various deposits were shown to induce biofilm formation and enhance nitrogen removal by an indigenous microbial community capable of anaerobic ammonium oxidation with nitrite (anammox) at low temperatures. The addition of a “warm” anammox community was also effective in further improving nitrogen removal and expanding the list of mineral carriers most suitable for creating a permeable reactive barrier. It has been suggested that the anammox activity is determined by the presence of essential trace elements in the carrier, the morphology of its surface, and most importantly, competition from rapidly growing microbial groups. Future work was discussed to adapt the “warm” anammox community to cold and provide the anammox community with nitrite through a partial denitrification route within the scope of sustainable anammox-based bioremediation of a nitrogen-polluted cold aquifer. In this unique habitat, novel species of anammox bacteria that are adapted to cold and heavy nitrogen pollution can be discovered. Abstract The complex pollution of aquifers by reduced and oxidized nitrogen compounds is currently considered one of the urgent environmental problems that require non-standard solutions. This work was a laboratory-scale trial to show the feasibility of using various mineral carriers to create a permeable in situ barrier in cold (10 °C) aquifers with extremely high nitrogen pollution and inhabited by the Candidatus Scalindua-dominated indigenous anammox community. It has been established that for the removal of ammonium and nitrite in situ due to the predominant contribution of the anammox process, quartz, kaolin clays of the Kantatsky and Kamalinsky deposits, bentonite clay of the Berezovsky deposit, and zeolite of the Kholinsky deposit can be used as components of the permeable barrier. Biofouling of natural loams from a contaminated aquifer can also occur under favorable conditions. It has been suggested that the anammox activity is determined by a number of factors, including the presence of the essential trace elements in the carrier and the surface morphology. However, one of the most important factors is competition with other microbial groups that can develop on the surface of the carrier at a faster rate. For this reason, carriers with a high specific surface area and containing the necessary microelements were overgrown with the most rapidly growing microorganisms. Bioaugmentation with a “warm” anammox community from a laboratory reactor dominated by Ca. Kuenenia improved nitrogen removal rates and biofilm formation on most of the mineral carriers, including bentonite clay of the Dinozavrovoye deposit, as well as loamy rock and zeolite-containing tripoli, in addition to carriers that perform best with the indigenous anammox community. The feasibility of coupled partial denitrification–anammox and the adaptation of a “warm” anammox community to low temperatures and hazardous components contained in polluted groundwater prior to bioaugmentation should be the scope of future research to enhance the anammox process in cold, nitrate-rich aquifers.
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- Anastasia Vishnyakova
- Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, «Fundamentals of Biotechnology» Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117312 Moscow, Russia
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- Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia
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- Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia
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- Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, «Fundamentals of Biotechnology» Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117312 Moscow, Russia
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- Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, «Fundamentals of Biotechnology» Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117312 Moscow, Russia
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +7-(926)-369-92-43
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- Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia
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Li D, Dang Z, Zhang J. Novel strategy for rapid start-up and stable operation of anammox: Negative pressure coupled with the direct-current electric field. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2022; 315:115167. [PMID: 35500490 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115167] [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: 02/14/2022] [Revised: 04/22/2022] [Accepted: 04/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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An application challenge of anaerobic ammonia oxidation (anammox) is the slow proliferation rate of anaerobic ammonium oxidation bacteria (AnAOB). This study adopted negative pressure coupled with the direct-current electric field (NP-DCEF) to evaluate system nitrogen removal performance. Results showed that the total nitrogen removal rate (TNRR) of the NP-DCEF system was stable at 88.6% after seven days. Compared with that of the ordinary operating system (45.4%), the relative abundance of Candidatus-kuenenia considerably increased from 51.9% to 57.6%. Under transient and long-term influent fluctuation, the NP-DCEF system showed high nitrogen removal performance. The specific activity of AnAOB (SAA) reached 11.0 mg N∙g Vss-1 h-1 under load fluctuation, and it was 8.7 mg N∙g Vss-1 h-1 under ordinary operational conditions. In addition, the specific activities of hydrazine dehydrogenase (HDH) and hydrazine synthetase (HZS) reached 32.66 and 92.95 U∙L-1, which are considerably higher than those under the ordinary operating conditions (18.41 and 63.20 U∙L-1). These results indicated that the novel operation strategy has specific feasibility and potential for the start-up and long-term operation of anammox.
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- Dong Li
- Key Laboratory of Water Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100123, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Water Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100123, China
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- Key Laboratory of Water Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100123, China; State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090, China
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Yang T, Hao Q, Qiao Y, Fu Z. Low-strength influence on nitrogen removal performance and bacterial community structure of the anammox process. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY 2022; 43:2730-2742. [PMID: 33683170 DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2021.1899291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2020] [Accepted: 02/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The effect of low strength on anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) was investigated in an anaerobic moving bed biofilm reactor (AMBBR) treating artificial wastewater. Influent NH4+-N concentration with 10.74 ± 2.73 mg L-1 adversely impacted nitrogen removal permanence, the total nitrogen removal efficiency was significantly increased from 61.4% to 80.0%, when influent nitrogen increased to 22.36 ± 5.83 mg·L-1. NH4+-N removal efficiency decreased obviously while that of NO2--N was basically unaffected by the influent nitrogen concentration decrease. Illumina high-throughput sequencing results revealed that the predominant bacterial (64.71%) phylum was Proteobacteria and the dominant functional microorganisms were Nitrosospira, Nitrospira, and Candidatus Brocadia. Simple model simulation results showed that the inhibition effect of the low substrate was most likely due to the increase of bulk DO, which comes from influent and gas-liquid transfer. The reversible inhibition effect of low strength on nitrogen removal performance in an anammox reactor was demonstrated, and strictly regulation of the bulk DO was presumed to be critical to achieve a successful and stable operating performance under low strength.
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- Ting Yang
- School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, People's Republic of China
- Inner Mongolia Coal Chemical Industry Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Engineering Technology Research Center, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, People's Republic of China
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- School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, People's Republic of China
- Inner Mongolia Coal Chemical Industry Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Engineering Technology Research Center, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, People's Republic of China
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- School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, People's Republic of China
- Inner Mongolia Coal Chemical Industry Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Engineering Technology Research Center, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, People's Republic of China
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- School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, People's Republic of China
- Inner Mongolia Coal Chemical Industry Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Engineering Technology Research Center, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, People's Republic of China
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Cao S, Du R, Zhou Y. Integrated thermal hydrolysis pretreated anaerobic digestion centrate and municipal wastewater treatment via partial nitritation/anammox process: A promising approach to alleviate inhibitory effects and enhance nitrogen removal. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2022; 356:127310. [PMID: 35569714 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Revised: 05/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Two-stage Partial nitritation/Anammox (PN/A) was firstly performed for recalcitrant organics (RO)-rich thermal hydrolysis pretreated anaerobic digestion (THP-AD) centrate treatment with municipal wastewater (MW) as co-substrate. Results indicated the inhibitory effects of RO was alleviated and high nitrate issue in PN/A effluent was addressed by cotreatment strategy. Stable PN with nitrite accumulation ratio of 95% and N removal efficiency of 97.1% were well maintained at MW of 80%. Nevertheless, nitrate accumulation and anammox activity loss were observed with lowering MW proportion owing to the weakened denitrification activity and aggravated inhibitory effect. Microbial analysis revealed Nitrosomonas was the major ammonium oxidizing bacteria and the ideal PN performance was due to the effective out-selection of nitrite oxidizing bacteria. Candidatus Kuenenia was identified as the primary bacteria for nitrogen removal (82.7%), and the controlled abundance of heterotrophic denitrifiers in anammox system ensured the enhanced nitrogen removal regardless of high COD loading from THP-AD centrate.
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- Shenbin Cao
- Advanced Environmental Biotechnology Centre, Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, 1 Cleantech Loop, Singapore 637141, Singapore; Chair of Urban Water Systems Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Am Coulombwall 3, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China; Water Chemistry and Water Technology, Engler-Bunte-Institut, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Advanced Environmental Biotechnology Centre, Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, 1 Cleantech Loop, Singapore 637141, Singapore; School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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Pimenov NV, Nikolaev YA, Dorofeev AG, Grachev VA, Kallistova AY, Mironov VV, Vanteeva AV, Grigor’eva NV, Berestovskaya YY, Gruzdev EV, Begmatov SA, Ravin NV, Mardanov AV. Bioaugmentation of Anammox Activated Sludge with a Nitrifying Bacterial Community as a Way to Increase the Nitrogen Removal Efficiency. Microbiology (Reading) 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026261722020102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Bioaugmentation, i.e., increasing the abundance of certain microorganisms in the community by adding appropriate cells or establishing the conditions promoting their growth, is widely used in environmental technologies. Its application for launching of the anammox reactors is usually limited to introduction of anammox bacteria. We expected addition of nitrifiers during anammox bioreactor launching to stimulate the anammox process due to rapid production of nitrite, which anammox bacteria use for ammonium oxidation. The present work investigated the effect of introduction of a nitrifying community on the composition and activity of the microbial community in an anammox reactor. At the time of inoculation of a laboratory SBR reactor, an active nitrifying community (5 days old) (ASB) (bioaugmenting activated sludge, ASB) containing group I nitrifiers, primarily Nitrosospira, was added (1 : 100 by biomass) to anammox activated sludge (ASA) stored for 1 month at 4°C and exhibiting low metabolic activity. The use of ASB resulted in increased efficiency of nitrogen removal. While noticeable nitrogen removal in the control (7%) was observed since day 11 of incubation, nitrogen removal in the experimental reactor began on day 4 at the level of 20%. Nitrogen removal after 30 days of incubation was ~60% in the experiment and 20% in the control. The rate of ammonium oxidation in the presence of ASB increased due to activity of nitrifying bacteria (during the first 10 days of operation) and anammox bacteria of the genus Brоcadia, which were already present in ASA (throughout all period of operation). Activity of group II nitrifiers (genera Nitrobacter and Nitrococcus), which were present in ASB, prevented accumulation of nitrite, which in high concentrations is toxic to both nitrifiers and anammox bacteria. High activity of the Nitrosospira nitrifiers introduced with ASB probably provided the anammox bacteria with one of the substrates (nitrite), promoting their rapid growth. During subsequent operation of the reactor, nitrifiers of the genus Nitrosomonas from the initial ASA community were mainly responsible for growth of the anammox bacteria. Thus, ASA bioaugmentation at the loading of the anammox reactor by active nitrifiers resulted in significantly improved efficiency of ammonium removal via the anammox process and accelerated transition of the reactor to the working mode.
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Clagnan E, Brusetti L, Pioli S, Visigalli S, Turolla A, Jia M, Bargna M, Ficara E, Bergna G, Canziani R, Bellucci M. Microbial community and performance of a partial nitritation/anammox sequencing batch reactor treating textile wastewater. Heliyon 2021; 7:e08445. [PMID: 34901500 PMCID: PMC8637490 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2021] [Revised: 10/25/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Implementation of onsite bioremediation technologies is essential for textile industries due to rising concerns in terms of water resources and quality. Partial nitritation-anaerobic ammonium oxidation (PN/A) processes emerged as a valid, but unexplored, solution. In this study, the performance of a PN/A pilot-scale (9 m3) sequencing batch reactor treating digital textile printing wastewater (10-40 m3 d-1) was monitored by computing nitrogen (N) removal rate and efficiencies. Moreover, the structure of the bacterial community was assessed by next generation sequencing and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) analyses of several genes, which are involved in the N cycle. Although anaerobic ammonium oxidation activity was inhibited and denitrification occurred, N removal rate increased from 16 to 61 mg N g VSS-1 d-1 reaching satisfactory removal efficiency (up to 70%). Ammonium (18-70 mg L-1) and nitrite (16-82 mg L-1) were detected in the effluent demonstrating an unbalance between the aerobic and anaerobic ammonia oxidation activity, while constant organic N was attributed to recalcitrant azo dyes. Ratio between nitrification and anammox genes remained stable reflecting a constant ammonia oxidation activity. A prevalence of ammonium oxidizing bacteria and denitrifiers suggested the presence of alternative pathways. PN/A resulted a promising cost-effective alternative for textile wastewater N treatment as shown by the technical-economic assessment. However, operational conditions and design need further tailoring to promote the activity of the anammox bacteria.
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- Elisa Clagnan
- Free University of Bolzano, Faculty of Science and Technology, Piazza Università 1, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
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- Free University of Bolzano, Faculty of Science and Technology, Piazza Università 1, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
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- Free University of Bolzano, Faculty of Science and Technology, Piazza Università 1, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
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- Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA), Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA), Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA), Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Lariana Depur Spa, Via Laghetto 1, 22073 Fino Mornasco, Italy
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- Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA), Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Lariana Depur Spa, Via Laghetto 1, 22073 Fino Mornasco, Italy
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- Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA), Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA), Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Development of Strategies for AOB and NOB Competition Supported by Mathematical Modeling in Terms of Successful Deammonification Implementation for Energy-Efficient WWTPs. Processes (Basel) 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/pr9030562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Novel technologies such as partial nitritation (PN) and partial denitritation (PDN) could be combined with the anammox-based process in order to alleviate energy input. The former combination, also noted as deammonification, has been intensively studied in a frame of lab and full-scale wastewater treatment in order to optimize operational costs and process efficiency. For the deammonification process, key functional microbes include ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and anaerobic ammonia oxidation bacteria (AnAOB), which coexisting and interact with heterotrophs and nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB). The aim of the presented review was to summarize current knowledge about deammonification process principles, related to microbial interactions responsible for the process maintenance under varying operational conditions. Particular attention was paid to the factors influencing the targeted selection of AOB/AnAOB over the NOB and application of the mathematical modeling as a powerful tool enabling accelerated process optimization and characterization. Another reviewed aspect was the potential energetic and resources savings connected with deammonification application in relation to the technologies based on the conventional nitrification/denitrification processes.
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Jung M, Oh T, Rhu D, Liberzon J, Kang SJ, Daigger GT, Kim S. A high-rate and stable nitrogen removal from reject water in a full-scale two-stage AMX ® system. WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY : A JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ON WATER POLLUTION RESEARCH 2021; 83:652-663. [PMID: 33600369 DOI: 10.2166/wst.2021.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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This paper reports long-term performance of a two-stage AMX® system with a capacity of 70 m3/d treating actual reject water. An air-lift granulation reactor performed partial nitritation (PN-AGR) at an average nitrogen loading rate (NLR) of 3.1 kgN/m3-d, producing an average effluent NO2--N/NH4+-N ratio of 1.04. The average nitrogen removal rate of the system was 3.91 kgN/m3-d following an anaerobic ammonium oxidation (Anammox) stage moving bed biofilm reactor (A-MBBR). Although the total nitrogen concentrations in the reject water fluctuated seasonally, overall nitrogen removal efficiency (NRE) of the two-stage AMX® system was very stable at over 87%. The two-stage AMX® system, consisting of a PN-AGR followed by an A-MBBR, operated at a stable NLR of 1.86 kgN/m3-d (1.64 kgN/m3-d including the intermediate tank), which is 1.8 times higher (1.6 times including the intermediate tank) than other commercialized single-stage partial nitritation/Anammox (PN/A) processes (which operate at a NLR of about 1 kgN/m3-d). The PN-AGR was affected by high influent total suspended solids (TSS) loads, but was able to recover within a short period of 4 days, which confirmed that the two-stage PN/A process is resilient to TSS load fluctuations.
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- Minki Jung
- BKT Co. Ltd., 25 Yuseong-daero 1184 beon-gil, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34109, Korea; Department of Environmental System Engineering, Korea University, Sejong 30019, Korea E-mail:
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- BKT Co. Ltd., 25 Yuseong-daero 1184 beon-gil, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34109, Korea
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- Tomorrow Water (BKT), 1225 N. Patt St., Anaheim, CA 92801, USA
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- Tomorrow Water (BKT), 1225 N. Patt St., Anaheim, CA 92801, USA
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- Water & Energy Advisors. Llc., 3418 Mills Ct, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Environmental System Engineering, Korea University, Sejong 30019, Korea E-mail:
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Drewnowski J, Shourjeh MS, Kowal P, Cel W. Modelling AOB-NOB competition in shortcut nitrification compared with conventional nitrification-denitrification process. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2021. [DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1736/1/012046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Zhang D, Wang G, Dai X. Operation of pilot-scale nitrification-anammox reactors for the treatment of reject-water produced from the anaerobic digestion of thermal hydrolysis-treated sludge. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2020; 314:123717. [PMID: 32645571 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.123717] [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: 04/01/2020] [Revised: 06/16/2020] [Accepted: 06/18/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Two-stage pilot-scale partial nitrification (PN)-anammox reactors were successfully operated for the treatment of reject-water (record as TRW) produced from the anaerobic digestion of thermal hydrolysis-treated sludge (THPAD). The PN reactor was operated stalely and Nitrosomonas was the major ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. In the anammox reactor, anammox activity doubled from day 3 to day 53 demonstrating that anammox adapted to the PN effluent. After acid shock at pH 4 for approximately 1 h, anammox was seriously inhibited and required approximately 60 days for recovery. This provided a reference for handling similar accidents. In the next 166 days, the load reached 0.40-0.51 kg N/(m3·d) in the presence of high concentration COD (798-1313 mg/L), suggesting anammox can be used in high concentration organic wastewater. Under the combined action of anammox and denitrification, 94.7% nitrogen was removed. These results demonstrated TRW can be treated using PN-anammox technology which was conducive to the popularization of THPAD.
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- Dong Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, China; Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai 200092, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, China; Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai 200092, China
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Yuan C, Wang B, Peng Y, Hu T, Zhang Q, Li X. Nutrient removal and microbial community in a two-stage process: Simultaneous enhanced biological phosphorus removal and semi-nitritation (EBPR-SN) followed by anammox. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2020; 310:123471. [PMID: 32388357 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.123471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2019] [Revised: 04/26/2020] [Accepted: 04/29/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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This study developed a two-stage process, including simultaneous enhanced biological phosphorus-removal and semi-nitritation (EBPR-SN) sequencing batch reactor (SBR), followed by Anammox SBR, to achieve advanced nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) removal from real sewage with low carbon/nitrogen (2.82). The long-term operation suggested that removal efficiencies for TIN (86.2 ± 3.5%) and P (95.0 ± 5.5%) were stably obtained, with nitrite accumulation ratio of 98.7% in EBPR-SN SBR. Mechanism analysis indicated contribution of anammox to N-removal being 57.3%-73.7% and superior P-removal due to the majority of removed organics (~74.5%) being stored by polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs). In EBPR-SN SBR, high-throughput sequencing showed ammonium-oxidizing bacteria was 0.03% while nitrite-oxidizing bacteria was not detected, and PAOs accounted for 30.07%. In Anammox SBR, Candidatus Brocadia (9.75%) was the only anammox bacteria. Remarkably, short aerobic hydraulic retention time (4.29 h) with low DO (0.3-1.2 mg/L) during the whole process provided desirable energy-saving.
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- Chuansheng Yuan
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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Carucci A, Bortolussi A, Cappai G, Erby G, Tocco G, Milia S. Application of anammox within an integrated approach to sustainable food waste management and valorization. N Biotechnol 2020; 58:1-9. [PMID: 32361011 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2020.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2019] [Revised: 02/25/2020] [Accepted: 03/07/2020] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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In this study, the anammox process was applied for the first time to the treatment of ammonium-rich liquid residues produced by the two-stage anaerobic digestion of food waste (2sAD-FW); such residues may represent a significant environmental issue if not properly managed. A granular anammox reactor was fed with a progressively increasing share of partially nitritated 2sAD-FW wastewater. An alternative operating strategy based on partial by-pass of the partial nitritation unit was tested, in order to regulate the influent NO2/NH4 molar ratio without chemical addition. High nitrogen removal efficiency (89 ± 1%) and negligible nitrite discharge rates were achieved, together with high nitrogen removal rate/nitrogen loading rate (NRR/NLR, 97 ± 1%) and stable specific anammox activity (0.42 ± 0.03 gN2-N/gVSS d). The observed NH4-removed/NO2-removed/NO3-produced molar ratio was in agreement with anammox stoichiometry, as confirmed by the low contribution (<5%) of denitrification to nitrogen removal. Moreover, the possibility of using digital color characterization of granular biomass as a novel, simple tool for the monitoring of anammox biomass enrichment and process performance was investigated under dynamic conditions, using real wastewater: changes in granule color correlated well with the increasing share of 2sAD-FW wastewater in the influent (R2 = 83%), as well as with the decrease of anammox biomass abundance in the reactor (R2 = 68%). The results suggest that anammox may be successfully integrated into a 2sAD-FW system, thus enhancing its environmental sustainability.
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- Alessandra Carucci
- University of Cagliari, Department of Civil-Environmental Engineering and Architecture (DICAAR), Via Marengo 2, Cagliari 09123, Italy; National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering (CNR-IGAG), Area della Ricerca Roma 1, Montelibretti, Rome 00015, Italy.
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- National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering (CNR-IGAG), Area della Ricerca Roma 1, Montelibretti, Rome 00015, Italy.
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- University of Cagliari, Department of Civil-Environmental Engineering and Architecture (DICAAR), Via Marengo 2, Cagliari 09123, Italy; National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering (CNR-IGAG), Area della Ricerca Roma 1, Montelibretti, Rome 00015, Italy.
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- University of Cagliari, Department of Civil-Environmental Engineering and Architecture (DICAAR), Via Marengo 2, Cagliari 09123, Italy.
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- University of Cagliari, Department of Civil-Environmental Engineering and Architecture (DICAAR), Via Marengo 2, Cagliari 09123, Italy.
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- National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering (CNR-IGAG), Area della Ricerca Roma 1, Montelibretti, Rome 00015, Italy.
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Guo Y, Chen Y, Webeck E, Li YY. Towards more efficient nitrogen removal and phosphorus recovery from digestion effluent: Latest developments in the anammox-based process from the application perspective. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2020; 299:122560. [PMID: 31882199 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2019] [Revised: 11/30/2019] [Accepted: 12/02/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Over the past forty years, anammox-based processes have been extensively researched and applied to some extent. However, some of the long-standing problems present serious impediments to wide application of these processes, and knowledge gap between lab-scale research and full-scale operations is still considerable. In recent years, anammox-based research has developed rapidly and some emerging concepts have been proposed. The focus of this review is on the critical problems facing actual application of anammox processes. The latest developments in anammox-based processes are summarized, and particular consideration is given to the following aspects: (1) the evolution of the chemical stoichiometry of anammox reaction; (2) the status of several main anammox-based processes; (3) the critical problems and countermeasures; (4) the emerging anammox-based processes; and (5) the suggested optimal process integrating partial nitritation, anammox, hydroxyapatite crystallization and denitratation for digestion effluent treatment towards more efficient nitrogen removal and phosphorus recovery in the future.
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- Yan Guo
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-06 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-06 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan
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- Department of Metallurgy, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-06 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan; Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, 6-6-06 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980 8579, Japan.
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Choi M, Chaudhary R, Lee M, Kim J, Cho K, Chung YC, Bae H, Park J. Enhanced selective enrichment of partial nitritation and anammox bacteria in a novel two-stage continuous flow system using flat-type poly (vinylalcohol) cryogel films. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2020; 300:122546. [PMID: 31918295 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2019] [Revised: 11/29/2019] [Accepted: 12/01/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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To improve stability of nitrogen removal in partial nitritation (PN)-anammox process, flat-type cryogel films using poly (vinylalcohol) named as FT-CPVAF were applied in continuous reactors. Stable PN operation was maintained with short acclimation of 8 days and ammonium oxidation rate of 1.68 ± 0.12 kg N m-3 d-1 comparatively higher than previous studies. The nitrogen removal, initially inhibited by an oxygen shock, was immediately reactivated with short lag-period by immobilization of anammox bacteria in FT-CPVAF. A novel two-stage PN-anammox process was operated in a continuous flow using FT-CPVAF for treatment of ammonium-rich synthetic wastewater (influent 315 mg NH4+-N L-1) showing 89.6 ± 0.76% of nitrogen removal at short hydraulic retention time (7.7 h). The use of FT-CPVAF enhanced selective enrichment of AOB and anammox bacter ia confirmed by high-throughput sequencing of i.e., relative abundances of Nitrosomonas europaea C-31 (37.14% in PN reactor) and 'Candidatus Jettenia caeni' (34.36% in anammox reactor).
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- Minkyu Choi
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Water Resource Cycle Research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), 5 Hwarang-ro 14-gil, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Water Resource Cycle Research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), 5 Hwarang-ro 14-gil, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University, 63 Busandeahak-ro, Geumjeong-Gu, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea.
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Pedrouso A, Trela J, Val Del Rio A, Mosquera-Corral A, Plaza E. Performance of partial nitritation-anammox processes at mainstream conditions in an IFAS system. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2019; 250:109538. [PMID: 31703243 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109538] [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: 05/07/2019] [Revised: 08/23/2019] [Accepted: 09/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The partial nitritation-anammox processes implementation in the main line of wastewater treatment plants would lead them closer to the energy autarky. With this purpose, an integrated fixed film activated sludge (IFAS) reactor was operated at pilot scale. Efficient nitrogen removal (72 ± 11%) was achieved for anaerobically pre-treated municipal wastewater at low temperature (21 - 15 °C), with a nitrogen removal rate of 37 ± 3 g N/(m3·d) at 15 °C. The ammonium oxidizing bacteria were more abundant in the activated sludge, while anammox bacteria were primarily located in biofilm attached onto the carriers surface. Nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB) activity was similar between both fractions and its specific activity decreased more than that of other populations when the operating temperature was reduced. Furthermore, the IFAS operational strategy (aerobic/anoxic periods) allowed an efficient NOB activity suppression inside the reactor, which accounted only for the 10 - 20% of the maximum potential activity.
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- Alba Pedrouso
- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Rúa de Lope Gómez de Marzoa s/n, E-15782, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
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- Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Teknikringen 10B, SE-10044, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Rúa de Lope Gómez de Marzoa s/n, E-15782, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Rúa de Lope Gómez de Marzoa s/n, E-15782, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
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- Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Teknikringen 10B, SE-10044, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Mardanov AV, Beletsky AV, Ravin NV, Botchkova EA, Litti YV, Nozhevnikova AN. Genome of a Novel Bacterium " Candidatus Jettenia ecosi" Reconstructed From the Metagenome of an Anammox Bioreactor. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2442. [PMID: 31736891 PMCID: PMC6828613 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2019] [Accepted: 10/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The microbial community of a laboratory-scale bioreactor based on the anammox process was investigated by using metagenomic approaches and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH). The bioreactor was initially inoculated with activated sludge from the denitrifying bioreactor of a municipal wastewater treatment station. By constantly increasing the ammonium and nitrite load, a microbial community containing the novel species of anammox bacteria "Candidatus Jettenia ecosi" developed in the bioreactor after 5 years when the maximal daily nitrogen removal rate reached 8.5 g/L. Sequencing of the metagenome of anammox granules and the binning of the contigs obtained, allowed a high quality draft genome of the dominant anammox bacterium, "Candidatus Jettenia ecosi" to be assembled. Annotation of the 3.9 Mbp long genome revealed 3970 putative protein-coding genes, 45 tRNA genes, and genes for 16S/23S rRNAs. Analysis of the genome of "Candidatus Jettenia ecosi" revealed genes involved in anammox metabolism, including nitrite and ammonium transporters, copper-containing nitrite reductase, a nitrate reductase complex, hydrazine synthase, and hydrazine dehydrogenase. Autotrophic carbon fixation could be accomplished through the Wood Ljungdahl pathway. The composition of the community was investigated through a search of 16S rRNA sequences in the metagenome and FISH analysis of the anammox granules. The presence of the members of Ignavibacteriae, Betaproteobacteria, Chloroflexi and other microbial lineages reflected the complexity of the microbial processes in the studied bioreactor performed by anammox Planctomycetes, fermentative bacteria, and denitrifiers.
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- Andrey V. Mardanov
- Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Research Center of Biotechnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Research Center of Biotechnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Research Center of Biotechnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Ismail S, Elsamadony M, Elreedy A, Fujii M, Tawfik A. Physico-chemical and microbial characterization of compartment-wise profiles in an anammox baffled reactor. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2019; 232:875-886. [PMID: 30530278 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.11.134] [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: 07/12/2018] [Revised: 09/08/2018] [Accepted: 11/27/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In this study, compartment-wise investigation of an anammox baffled reactor (AnBR) was performed. The AnBR achieved steady-state conditions after a start-up period of ∼50 days and achieved NH4 and NO2 conversion percentages of 88.5 and 99.3%, respectively. Examination of the nitrogen mass balance revealed that an AnBR with a two-compartment configuration was sufficient for nitrogen loading rates (NLRs) ranging from 0.125 to 1.975 kg N/m3/d and resulted in a nitrogen removal efficiency (NRE) of 86.7-93.7%. Higher NLRs (4.04-5.05 kg N/m3/d) required four compartments to achieve an NRE of 82.2-87.1%. Further, an overall NLR increase of up to 5.93 ± 0.23 kg N/m3/d resulted in complete AnBR failure. The maximum nitrogen removal rate was consistently recorded in the 1st compartment for all NLRs examined; as a result, this compartment exhibited the highest bacterial activity. Biomass concentration, specific anammox activity, extracellular polymeric substances, and average granule diameter in the 1st compartment with an overall NLR of 0.05 kg N/m3/d were estimated to be 11.2 gVSS/L, 0.03 mg N/gVSS/h, 84.3 mg/gVSS, and 0.65 mm, respectively. These values increased to 26.1 gVSS/L, 11.80 mg N/gVSS/h, 242.1 mg/gVSS, and 2.31 mm, respectively, when the overall NLR was incremented to 4.04 kg N/m3/d. However, a gradual reduction in bacterial activity was observed from the 1st to the 5th compartment. The microbial community analysis indicated that the dominant phyla in the 1st compartment (NLR of 0.252 kg N/m3/d) with the highest nitrogen removal were Chloroflexi (38.13%), Planctomycetes (22.62%), and Proteobacteria (14.75%).
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- Sherif Ismail
- Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), Environmental Engineering Department, P.O. Box 179, New Borg Al Arab City, Alexandria, 21934, Egypt; Tokyo Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8552, Japan; Zagazig University, Environmental Engineering Department, Zagazig, 44519, Egypt.
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- Tanta University, Faculty of Engineering, Public Works Engineering Department, 31521, Tanta City, Egypt.
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- Tokyo Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8552, Japan; Alexandria University, Faculty of Engineering, Sanitary Engineering Department, Alexandria, 21544, Egypt.
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- Tokyo Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8552, Japan.
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- National Research Centre, Water Pollution Research Department, Giza, 12622, Egypt.
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Wang H, Kim M, Li K, Shao Y, Zhu J, Nakhla G. Effective partial nitrification of ammonia in a fluidized bed bioreactor. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY 2019; 40:94-101. [PMID: 28911270 DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2017.1380710] [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: 02/06/2017] [Accepted: 09/09/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A lab-scale fluidized bed bioreactor with high-density polyethylene as biofilm carrier media was operated to study partial nitrification (PN) performance with high ammonia concentrations. The system was run at nitrogen loading rates (NLRs) from 1.2 to 4.8 kg N/(m3 d) with empty bed contact time of 2.0 and 2.7 h and four different influent ammonia concentrations of 100, 200, 300 and 400 mg/L. Dissolved oxygen concentration and temperature were maintained around 1.3 mg/L and 35°C, respectively. Stable PN was successfully achieved during the whole period with low effluent NO3-N concentration at less than 15 mg/L, due to effective suppression of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria activity at high concentrations of free ammonia (5.3-27.3 mg N/L) and low alkalinity-to-ammonia ratio. At the NLR of 3.6 kg N/(m3 d), NH4-N conversion and NO2-N accumulation ratios were 57.8% and 53.9%, respectively, which could be further used in the anaerobic ammonium oxidation process (ANAMMOX) as the effluent NO2-N/NH4-N ratio was 1.27.
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- Haolong Wang
- a School of Chemical Engineering and Technology , Tianjin University , Tianjin , People's Republic of China
- b Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering , The University of Western Ontario , London , ON , Canada
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- b Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering , The University of Western Ontario , London , ON , Canada
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- b Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering , The University of Western Ontario , London , ON , Canada
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- a School of Chemical Engineering and Technology , Tianjin University , Tianjin , People's Republic of China
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- a School of Chemical Engineering and Technology , Tianjin University , Tianjin , People's Republic of China
- b Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering , The University of Western Ontario , London , ON , Canada
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- b Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering , The University of Western Ontario , London , ON , Canada
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Çelen-Erdem I, Kurt ES, Bozçelik B, Çallı B. Upflow packed bed Anammox reactor used in two-stage deammonification of sludge digester effluent. WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY : A JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ON WATER POLLUTION RESEARCH 2018; 78:1843-1851. [PMID: 30566088 DOI: 10.2166/wst.2018.322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The sludge digester effluent taken from a full scale municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Istanbul, Turkey, was successfully deammonified using a laboratory scale two-stage partial nitritation (PN)/Anammox (A) process and a maximum nitrogen removal rate of 1.02 kg N/m3/d was achieved. In the PN reactor, 56.8 ± 4% of the influent NH4-N was oxidized to NO2-N and the effluent nitrate concentration was kept below 1 mg/L with 0.5-0.7 mg/L of dissolved oxygen and pH of 7.12 ± 12 at 24 ± 4°C. The effluent of the PN reactor was fed to an upflow packed bed Anammox reactor where high removal efficiency was achieved with NO2-N:NH4-N and NO3-N:NH4-N ratios of 1.32 ± 0.19:1 and 0.22 ± 0.10:1, respectively. The results show that NH4-N removal efficiency up to 98.7 ± 2.4% and total nitrogen removal of 87.7 ± 6.5% were achieved.
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- I Çelen-Erdem
- Environment and Cleaner Production Institute, The Marmara Research Center TUBITAK, Kocaeli, Turkey E-mail:
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- Environmental Engineering Department, Yildiz Technical University Istanbul, Turkey
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- Environment and Cleaner Production Institute, The Marmara Research Center TUBITAK, Kocaeli, Turkey E-mail:
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- Environmental Engineering Department, Marmara University, Kadikoy, Istanbul, Turkey
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Huang Q, Du WL, Miao LL, Liu Y, Liu ZP. Microbial community dynamics in an ANAMMOX reactor for piggery wastewater treatment with startup, raising nitrogen load, and stable performance. AMB Express 2018; 8:156. [PMID: 30276499 PMCID: PMC6167272 DOI: 10.1186/s13568-018-0686-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2018] [Accepted: 09/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Bacterial community dynamics of the ANAMMOX reactor of an integrated “UASB + SHARON + ANAMMOX” system for treating piggery wastewater were investigated using the Illumina MiSeq method with samples obtained at ~ 2-week intervals during a 314-day period. With aerobic activated sludge as seeds and low content artificial wastewater (NH4+–N 50 mg/L; NO2−–N 55 mg/L) as influent for the ANAMMOX reactor, nitrogen removal was initially observed on day 38 with a removal rate 1.3 mg N L−1 day−1, and increased to 90.4 mg N L−1 day−1 on day 55 with almost complete removal of ammonia and nitrite, indicating a successful startup of the reactor. Increasing influent load stepwise to NH4+–N 272.7 mg/L/NO2−–N 300 mg/L, nitrogen removal rate increased gradually to 470 mg N L−1 day−1 on day 228, and maintained a stable level (~ 420 mg N L−1 day−1) following introduction of SHARON effluent since day 229. Correlation between microbial community dynamics and nitrogen removal capability was significant (r = 0.489, p < 0.001). Microbial community composition was determined by influent ammonia, influent nitrite, effluent nitrate and some undefined factors. Anammox bacteria, accounting for ~ 98.7% of Planctomycetes, became detectable (0.03% relative abundance) since day 38 and increased to 0.9% on day 58, well consistent with nitrogen removal performance of the reactor. Relative abundance of anammox bacteria gradually increased to 38.4% on day 140 with stepwise increased influent load; decreased to 0.4% on day 169 because of nitrite inhibition; increased to 19.24% on day 233 when the influent load was dropped; kept at ~ 9.0% with SHARON effluent used as influent and dropped to 3.3% finally. Anammox bacteria, only Candidatus Brocadia and Ca. Kuenenia detected, were the most abundant at genus level. Ca. Brocadia related taxa were enriched firstly under low load and detectable during the entire experimental period. Three main groups represented by Ca. Brocadia related OTUs were enriched or eliminated at different loads, but Ca. Kuenenia related taxa were enriched only under high load (NO2−–N > 300 mg/L), suggesting their different niches and application for different loads. These findings improve the understanding of relationships among microbial community/functional taxa, running parameters and reactor performance, and will be useful in optimizing running parameters for rapid startup and high, stable efficiency.
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Zhang Q, Wang C, Jiang L, Qi J, Wang J, He X. Impact of dissolved oxygen on the microbial community structure of an intermittent biological aerated filter (IBAF) and the removal efficiency of gasification wastewater. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2018; 255:198-204. [PMID: 29414167 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.01.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2017] [Revised: 01/15/2018] [Accepted: 01/22/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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A novel IBAF system (altered conventional biological aerated filter (BAF) for intermittent aeration) was used to treat BDD anodes electrochemical oxidation gasification wastewater effluent, after which 454 pyrosequencing was applied to investigate the bacterial community of IBAF and demonstrate the relationship between dissolved oxygen (DO) and the bacterial community. The results showed that the concentration of COD, NH4+-N and NO3--N reached 55.08, 7.64 and 7.76 mg/L, respectively, in IBAF effluent because of changes in the DO concentration at 30 days after system start-up. The bacterial community results revealed that the 40 cm sample had the highest bacterial diversity. The bacterial species were approximate in total samples at phylum and family level, but the relative abundance was significantly different because of change in DO concentration. In addition, sample distance analysis indicated that the similarity of different samples was related to the DO concentration at different heights.
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- Qi Zhang
- School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, PR China
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- School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, PR China.
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- School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, PR China
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- School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, PR China
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- School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, PR China
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- School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, PR China
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Qian F, Gebreyesus AT, Wang J, Shen Y, Liu W, Xie L. Single-stage autotrophic nitrogen removal process at high loading rate: granular reactor performance, kinetics, and microbial characterization. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2018; 102:2379-2389. [PMID: 29353308 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-018-8768-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2017] [Revised: 12/26/2017] [Accepted: 01/05/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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For the possible highest performance of single-stage combined partial nitritation/anammox (PNA) process, a continuous complete-mix granular reactor was operated at progressively higher nitrogen loading rate. The variations in bacterial community structure of granules were also characterized using high-throughput pyrosequencing, to give a detail insight to the relationship between reactor performance and functional organism abundance within completely autotrophic nitrogen removal system. In 172 days of operation, a superior total nitrogen (TN) removal rate over 3.9 kg N/(m3/day) was stable implemented at a fixed dissolved oxygen concentration of 1.9 mg/L, corresponding to the maximum specific substrate utilization rate of 0.36/day for TN based on the related kinetics modeling. Pyrosequencing results revealed that the genus Nitrosomonas responsible for aerobic ammonium oxidation was dominated on the granule surface, which was essential to offer the required niche for the selective enrichment of anammox bacteria (genus Candidatus Kuenenia) in the inner layer. And the present of various heterotrophic organisms with general functions, known as fermentation and denitrification, could not be overlooked. In addition, it was believed that an adequate excess of ammonium in the bulk liquid played a key role in maintaining process stability, by suppressing the growth of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria through dual-substrate competitions.
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- Feiyue Qian
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, No. 1 Kerui Road, 215009, Suzhou, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, No. 1 Kerui Road, 215009, Suzhou, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, No. 1 Kerui Road, 215009, Suzhou, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, No. 1 Kerui Road, 215009, Suzhou, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, No. 1 Kerui Road, 215009, Suzhou, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, No. 1 Kerui Road, 215009, Suzhou, People's Republic of China
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Zhang J, Zhang Q, Li X, Miao Y, Sun Y, Zhang M, Peng Y. Rapid start-up of partial nitritation and simultaneously phosphorus removal (PNSPR) granular sludge reactor treating low-strength domestic sewage. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2017; 243:660-666. [PMID: 28709071 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.06.129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2017] [Revised: 06/20/2017] [Accepted: 06/22/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Obtaining desirable partial nitritation (PN) is crucial for successful application of the combined PN and anammox process. In this study, the partial nitritation and simultaneously phosphorus removal (PNSPR)1 granular sludge reactor treating low-strength domestic sewage was rapidly started up in 67days through seeding denitrifying phosphorus removal (DPR)2 sludge. The nitrite/ammonium ratio in effluent was approximately 1 and the nitrite accumulation rate (NAR) was more than 95%, about 93% of orthophosphate was removed. The DPR sludge rich in phosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) with few nitrifying bacteria could promote the achievement of PNSPR. Quantitative microbial analysis showed that the ammonium oxidizing bacteria (AOB) gene ratio in sludge increased from 0.21% to 3.43%, while nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB) gradually decreased to 0.07%. The average particle size of sludge increased from 114 to 421μm, indicating the formation of PNSPR granules. The high phosphorus content in sludge and phosphorus removal facilitated rapid granulation.
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- Jianhua Zhang
- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China.
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Zhao J, Feng L, Yang G, Dai J, Mu J. Development of simultaneous nitrification-denitrification (SND) in biofilm reactors with partially coupled a novel biodegradable carrier for nitrogen-rich water purification. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2017; 243:800-809. [PMID: 28715697 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.06.127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2017] [Revised: 06/18/2017] [Accepted: 06/22/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Development of simultaneous nitrification-denitrification (SND) is a promising approach for nitrogen-rich water purification. Coupling biofilm reactors with novel biodegradable carrier of Pumelo Peel (PP) and various conventional plastic fillers (polyurethane filler, SPR-1 suspension filler, TA-II elastic filler and sphere filler) were examined to achieve SND in this study. Results represented that partially coupled with PP could achieve highly efficient SND. Optimal performance appealed in a bioreactor of coupling PP and SPR-1filler with ammonia and total nitrogen removal efficiencies of 96.8±4.0% and 78.9±9.5%, respectively, as well as low effluent CODMn of 1.85±0.86mgL-1. Notably, PP and conventional plastic filler played obviously different roles in combined bioreactor system. Microbial analysis suggested that dominant genera were Thiothrix, Gemmata, unclassified comanonadaceae, unclassified Rhizobiales, Salipiger, Chloronema and Klebsiella in optimal combined bioreactor, which indicated novel co-existence of heterotrophic nitrification, solid-phase, non-solid-phase heterotrophic and sulfur-based autotrophic denitrification for achieving efficient SND.
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- Jing Zhao
- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Ocean University, No. 1 Haida South Road, Zhoushan, Zhejiang 316022, China
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Ocean University, No. 1 Haida South Road, Zhoushan, Zhejiang 316022, China.
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Ocean University, No. 1 Haida South Road, Zhoushan, Zhejiang 316022, China
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Ocean University, No. 1 Haida South Road, Zhoushan, Zhejiang 316022, China
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Ocean University, No. 1 Haida South Road, Zhoushan, Zhejiang 316022, China
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Qin Y, Han B, Cao Y, Wang T. Impact of substrate concentration on anammox-UBF reactors start-up. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2017; 239:422-429. [PMID: 28535492 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.04.126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2017] [Revised: 04/27/2017] [Accepted: 04/28/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Two up-flow blanket filter (UBF) reactors were employed to treat synthetic wastewater with different substrate concentrations and nitrogen load rates (NLR) for 178days. During days 0-60, higher influent NLR of R2 (0.21-0.58kg·m3·d) slowed down the formation of anammox sludge compared with the lower NLR of R1 (0.18-0.31kg·m3·d). Difference in sludge color and nitrogen conversion rate indicated greater anammox activity of R2 than R1. During days 61-178, R1 and R2 achieved the maximum nitrogen removal rates (NRR) of 1.213 and 1.684kg/(m3·d) under the NLRs of 1.924 and 2.502kg/(m3·d), respectively. Furthermore, high-throughput sequencing showed that R2 (43.5%) had a higher proportion of anammox bacteria than R1 (37.8%) and less species. These results showed that after going through a higher NLR acclimation process during start-up period, stronger resistant capability against high impact nitrogen load and greater anammox activity were obtained by R2.
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- Yujie Qin
- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre, Guangzhou 510006, PR China; The Key Lab of Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, Ministry of Education, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre, Guangzhou 510006, PR China; Guangdong Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Centre for Environmental Risk Prevention and Emergency Disposal, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre, Guangzhou 510006, PR China.
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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Pereira AD, Cabezas A, Etchebehere C, Chernicharo CADL, de Araújo JC. Microbial communities in anammox reactors: a review. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/21622515.2017.1304457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Alyne Duarte Pereira
- Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Microbial Biochemistry and Genomics Department, Biological Research Institute ‘Clemente Estable’, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Microbial Biochemistry and Genomics Department, Biological Research Institute ‘Clemente Estable’, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Chen W, Dai X, Cao D, Wang S, Hu X, Liu W, Yang D. Performance and microbial ecology of a nitritation sequencing batch reactor treating high-strength ammonia wastewater. Sci Rep 2016; 6:35693. [PMID: 27762325 PMCID: PMC5071840 DOI: 10.1038/srep35693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2016] [Accepted: 10/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The partial nitrification (PN) performance and the microbial community variations were evaluated in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) for 172 days, with the stepwise elevation of ammonium concentration. Free ammonia (FA) and low dissolved oxygen inhibition of nitrite-oxidized bacteria (NOB) were used to achieve nitritation in the SBR. During the 172 days operation, the nitrogen loading rate of the SBR was finally raised to 3.6 kg N/m3/d corresponding the influent ammonium of 1500 mg/L, with the ammonium removal efficiency and nitrite accumulation rate were 94.12% and 83.54%, respectively, indicating that the syntrophic inhibition of FA and low dissolved oxygen contributed substantially to the stable nitrite accumulation. The results of the 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing revealed that Nitrospira, the only nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in the system, were successively inhibited and eliminated, and the SBR reactor was dominated finally by Nitrosomonas, the ammonium-oxidizing bacteria, which had a relative abundance of 83%, indicating that the Nitrosomonas played the primary roles on the establishment and maintaining of nitritation. Followed by Nitrosomonas, Anaerolineae (7.02%) and Saprospira (1.86%) were the other mainly genera in the biomass.
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- Wenjing Chen
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
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