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Wimalaweera IP, Wei Y, Zuo F, Tang Q, Ritigala T, Wang Y, Zhong H, Weerasooriya R, Jinadasa S, Weragoda S. Enhancing Rubber Industry Wastewater Treatment through an Integrated AnMBR and A/O MBR System: Performance, Membrane Fouling Analysis, and Microbial Community Evolution. MEMBRANES 2024; 14:130. [PMID: 38921497 PMCID: PMC11205297 DOI: 10.3390/membranes14060130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2024] [Revised: 05/28/2024] [Accepted: 05/28/2024] [Indexed: 06/27/2024]
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This study explores the effectiveness of an integrated anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) coupled with an anoxic/oxic membrane bioreactor (A/O MBR) for the treatment of natural rubber industry wastewater with high sulfate, ammonia, and complex organic contents. This study was conducted at the lab-scale over a duration of 225 days to thoroughly investigate the efficiency and sustainability of the proposed treatment method. With a hydraulic retention time of 6 days for the total system, COD reductions were over 98%, which reduced the influent from 22,158 ± 2859 mg/L to 118 ± 74 mg/L of the effluent. The system demonstrates average NH3-N, TN, and total phosphorus (TP) removal efficiencies of 72.9 ± 5.7, 72.8 ± 5.6, and 71.3 ± 9.9, respectively. Despite an average whole biological system removal of 50.6%, the anaerobic reactor eliminated 44.9% of the raw WW sulfate. Analyses of membrane fouling revealed that organic fouling was more pronounced in the anaerobic membrane, whereas aerobic membrane fouling displayed varied profiles due to differential microbial and oxidative activities. Key bacterial genera, such as Desulfobacterota in the anaerobic stage and nitrifiers in the aerobic stage, are identified as instrumental in the biological processes. The microbial profile reveals a shift from methanogenesis to sulfide-driven autotrophic denitrification and sulfammox, with evidence of an active denitrification pathway in anaerobic/anoxic conditions. The system showcases its potential for industrial application, underpinning environmental sustainability through improved wastewater management.
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- Ishanka Prabhath Wimalaweera
- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; (I.P.W.); (F.Z.); (Q.T.); (T.R.); (Y.W.); (H.Z.)
- Laboratory of Water Pollution Control Technology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- China-Sri Lanka Joint Research and Demonstration Center for Water Technology, Ministry of Water Supply, Meewathura, Kandy 20400, Sri Lanka;
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; (I.P.W.); (F.Z.); (Q.T.); (T.R.); (Y.W.); (H.Z.)
- Laboratory of Water Pollution Control Technology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- China-Sri Lanka Joint Research and Demonstration Center for Water Technology, Ministry of Water Supply, Meewathura, Kandy 20400, Sri Lanka;
- National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Hanthana Road, Kandy 20000, Sri Lanka;
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; (I.P.W.); (F.Z.); (Q.T.); (T.R.); (Y.W.); (H.Z.)
- Laboratory of Water Pollution Control Technology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; (I.P.W.); (F.Z.); (Q.T.); (T.R.); (Y.W.); (H.Z.)
- Laboratory of Water Pollution Control Technology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; (I.P.W.); (F.Z.); (Q.T.); (T.R.); (Y.W.); (H.Z.)
- Laboratory of Water Pollution Control Technology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; (I.P.W.); (F.Z.); (Q.T.); (T.R.); (Y.W.); (H.Z.)
- Laboratory of Water Pollution Control Technology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; (I.P.W.); (F.Z.); (Q.T.); (T.R.); (Y.W.); (H.Z.)
- Laboratory of Water Pollution Control Technology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Hanthana Road, Kandy 20000, Sri Lanka;
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- Department of Civil Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Kandy 20400, Sri Lanka;
- School of Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University, Bundaberg, QLD 4670, Australia
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- China-Sri Lanka Joint Research and Demonstration Center for Water Technology, Ministry of Water Supply, Meewathura, Kandy 20400, Sri Lanka;
- National Water Supply and Drainage Board, Kandy 20800, Sri Lanka
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Liu H, Zeng W, Meng Q, Zhang J, Peng Y. An integrated system combining Tetrasphaera-dominated enhanced biological phosphorus removal with sulfur autotrophic denitrification to enhance biological nutrients removal. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 915:169957. [PMID: 38242446 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.169957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2023] [Revised: 01/03/2024] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 01/21/2024]
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This study developed a two-stage process, including Tetrasphaera-dominated enhanced biological phosphorus-removal (EBPR(T)) sequencing batch reactor (SBR), followed by sulfur autotrophic denitrification (SADN) SBR, to achieve advanced nutrients removal from low VFAs wastewater. The removal efficiencies of nitrogen and phosphorus (PO43--P) reached 99 % with effluent PO43--P and total inorganic nitrogen (TIN) below 0.5 mg/L and 1 mg/L in EBPR(T) and SADN SBR, respectively. Mechanism analysis indicated that as increasing drainage ratio and complex carbon sources, free amino acids, glycogen, and PHA served as the endogenous carbon sources of Tetrasphaera to store energy. SADN contributed to approximately 80 % of nitrogen removal. DNA and cDNA results indicated Tetrasphaera was shifted from clade 2 to clade 1 after increasing the drainage ratio and the complexity of the carbon source, and Tetrasphaera (50.95 %) and Ca. Accumulibacter (9.12 %) were the most important functional microorganisms synergized to remove phosphorus at the transcriptional level in EBPR(T). Thiobacillus (45.97 %) and Sulfuritalea (9.24 %) were the dominant sulfur autotrophic denitrifiers at gene and transcriptional level in SADN. The results suggested that the EBPR(T) - SADN SBRs have great nutrient removal performance in treating low VFAs wastewater without additional carbon sources.
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- Hongjun Liu
- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China.
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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Zhang Y, Qiu X, Luo J, Li H, How SW, Wu D, He J, Cheng Z, Gao Y, Lu H. A review of the phosphorus removal of polyphosphate-accumulating organisms in natural and engineered systems. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 912:169103. [PMID: 38065508 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169103] [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: 09/17/2023] [Revised: 11/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/02/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2024]
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Increasing eutrophication has led to a continuous deterioration of many aquatic ecosystems. Polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs) can provide insight into the human response to this challenge, as they initiate enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) through cyclical anaerobic phosphorus release and aerobic phosphorus uptake. Although the limiting environmental factors for PAO growth and phosphorus removal have been widely discussed, there remains a gap in the knowledge surrounding the differences in the type and phosphorus removal efficiencies of natural and engineered PAO systems. Furthermore, due to the limitations of PAOs in conventional wastewater treatment environments, there is an urgent need to find functional PAOs in extreme environments for better wastewater treatment. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the effects of extreme conditions on the phosphorus removal efficiency of PAOs as well as the types, sources, and characteristics of PAOs. In this paper, we summarize the response mechanisms of PAOs, denitrifying polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (D-PAOs), aerobic denitrifying polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (AD-PAOs), and sulfur-related PAOs (S-PAOs). The mechanism of nitrogen and phosphorus removal in PAOs is related to the coupling cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur. The genera of PAOs differ in natural and engineered systems, but PAOs have more diversity in aquatic environments and soils. Recent studies on the impact of several parameters (e.g., temperature, carbon source, pH, and dissolved oxygen) and extracellular polymer substances on the phosphorus removal efficiency of PAOs in natural and engineered systems are further discussed. Most of the PAOs screened under extreme conditions still had high phosphorus removal efficiencies (>80.0 %). These results provide a reference for searching for PAOs with different adaptations to achieve better wastewater treatment.
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- Yan Zhang
- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, Guangdong 528000, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, Guangdong 528000, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, Guangdong 528000, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, Guangdong 528000, China
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- Centre for Environmental and Energy Research, Ghent University Global Campus, Incheon 21985, Republic of Korea; Department of Green Chemistry and Technology, Ghent University, Centre for Advanced Process Technology for Urban REsource Recovery (CAPTURE), Ghent B9000, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental and Energy Research, Ghent University Global Campus, Incheon 21985, Republic of Korea; Department of Green Chemistry and Technology, Ghent University, Centre for Advanced Process Technology for Urban REsource Recovery (CAPTURE), Ghent B9000, Belgium
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, Guangdong 528000, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, Guangdong 528000, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, Guangdong 528000, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
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He C, Wu H, Wei G, Zhu S, Qiu G, Wei C. Simultaneous decarbonization and phosphorus removal by Tetrasphaera elongata with glucose as carbon source under aerobic conditions. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2024; 393:130048. [PMID: 37980947 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.130048] [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: 08/14/2023] [Revised: 11/04/2023] [Accepted: 11/15/2023] [Indexed: 11/21/2023]
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Previous researches have recognized the vital role of Tetrasphaera elongata in enhanced biological phosphorus removal systems, but the underlying mechanisms remain under-investigated. To address this issue, this study investigated the metabolic characteristics of Tetrasphaera elongata when utilizing glucose as the sole carbon source. Results showed under aerobic conditions, Tetrasphaera elongata exhibited a glucose uptake rate of 136.6 mg/(L·h) and a corresponding phosphorus removal rate of 8.6 mg P/(L·h). Upregulations of genes associated with the glycolytic pathway and oxidative phosphorylation were observed. Noteworthily, the genes encoding the two-component sensor histidine kinase and response regulator transcription factor exhibited a remarkable 28.3 and 27.4-fold increase compared with the group without glucose. Since these genes play a pivotal role in phosphate-specific transport systems, collectively, these findings shed light on a potential mechanism for simultaneous decarbonization and phosphorus removal by Tetrasphaera elongata under aerobic conditions, providing fresh insights into phosphorus removal from wastewaters.
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- Chao He
- School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China.
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Biosciences and Biopharmaceutics, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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Chen L, Wei G, Zhang Y, Wang K, Wang C, Deng X, Li Y, Xie X, Chen J, Huang F, Chen H, Zhang B, Wei C, Qiu G. Candidatus Accumulibacter use fermentation products for enhanced biological phosphorus removal. WATER RESEARCH 2023; 246:120713. [PMID: 37839225 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.120713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 09/17/2023] [Accepted: 10/07/2023] [Indexed: 10/17/2023]
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Previous research suggested that two major groups of polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs), i.e., Ca. Accumulibacter and Tetrasphaera, play cooperative roles in enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR). The fermentation of complex organic compounds by Tetrasphaera provides carbon sources for Ca. Accumulibacter. However, the viability of the fermentation products (e.g., lactate, succinate, alanine) as carbon sources for Ca. Accumulibacter and their potential effects on the metabolism of Ca. Accumulibacter were largely unknown. This work for the first time investigated the capability and metabolic details of Ca. Accumulibacter cognatus clade IIC strain SCUT-2 (enriched in a lab-scale reactor with a relative abundance of 42.8%) in using these fermentation products for EBPR. The enrichment culture was able to assimilate lactate and succinate with the anaerobic P release to carbon uptake ratios of 0.28 and 0.36 P mol/C mol, respectively. In the co-presence of acetate, the uptake of lactate was strongly inhibited, since two substrates shared the same transporter as suggested by the carbon uptake bioenergetic analysis. When acetate and succinate were fed at the same time, Ca. Accumulibacter assimilated two carbon sources simultaneously. Proton motive force (PMF) was the key driving force (up to 90%) for the uptake of lactate and succinate by Ca. Accumulibacter. Apart from the efflux of proton in symport with phosphate via the inorganic phosphate transport system, translocation of proton via the activity of fumarate reductase contributed to the generation of PMF, which agreed with the fact that PHV was a major component of PHA when lactate and succinate were used as carbon sources, involving the succinate-propionate pathway. Metabolic models for the usage of lactate and succinate by Ca. Accumulibacter for EBPR were built based on the combined physiological, biochemical, metagenomic, and metatranscriptomic analyses. Alanine was shown as an invalid carbon source for Ca. Accumulibacter. Instead, it significantly and adversely affected Ca. Accumulibacter-mediated EBPR. Phosphate release was observed without alanine uptake. Significant inhibitions on the aerobic phosphate uptake was also evident. Overall, this study suggested that there might not be a simply synergic relationship between Ca. Accumulibacter and Tetrasphaera. Their interactions would largely be determined by the kind of fermentation products released by the latter.
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- Liping Chen
- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Solid Wastes Pollution Control and Recycling, Guangzhou 510006, PR China; Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration in Industrial Clusters, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 510006, PR China.
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Solid Wastes Pollution Control and Recycling, Guangzhou 510006, PR China; Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration in Industrial Clusters, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 510006, PR China.
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Lu X, Oehmen A, Zhao J, Duan H, Yuan Z, Ye L. Insights on biological phosphorus removal with partial nitrification in single sludge system via sidestream free ammonia and free nitrous acid dosing. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 895:165174. [PMID: 37385509 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Revised: 06/10/2023] [Accepted: 06/25/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
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The sidestream sludge treatment by free ammonium (FA)/free nitrous acid (FNA) dosing was frequently demonstrated to maintain the nitrite pathway for the partial nitrification (PN) process. Nevertheless, the inhibitory effect of FA and FNA would severely influence polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs), destroying the microbe-based phosphorus (P) removal. Therefore, a strategic evaluation was proposed to successfully achieve biological P removal with a partial nitrification process in a single sludge system by sidestream FA and FNA dosing. Through the long-term operation of 500 days, excellent phosphorus, ammonium and total nitrogen removal performance were achieved at 97.5 ± 2.6 %, 99.1 ± 1.0 % and 75.5 ± 0.4 %, respectively. Stable partial nitrification with a nitrite accumulation ratio (NAR) of 94.1 ± 3.4 was attained. The batch tests also reported the robust aerobic phosphorus uptake based on FA and FNA adapted sludge after exposure of FA and FNA, respectively, suggesting the FA and FNA treatment strategy could potentially offer the opportunity for the selection of PAOs, which synchronously have the tolerance to FA and FNA. Microbial community analysis suggested that Accumulibacter, Tetrasphaera, and Comamonadaceae collectively contributed to the phosphorus removal in this system. Summarily, the proposed work presents a novel and feasible strategy to integrate enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) and short-cut nitrogen cycling and bring the combined mainstream phosphorus removal and partial nitrification process closer to practical application.
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- Xuanyu Lu
- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia; Australia Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Sustainable minerals institute, the university of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia; Australia Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Australia Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
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Nguyen P, Marques R, Wang H, Reis MA, Carvalho G, Oehmen A. The impact of pH on the anaerobic and aerobic metabolism of Tetrasphaera-enriched polyphosphate accumulating organisms. WATER RESEARCH X 2023; 19:100177. [PMID: 37008369 PMCID: PMC10063378 DOI: 10.1016/j.wroa.2023.100177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2023] [Revised: 03/05/2023] [Accepted: 03/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Members of the genus Tetrasphaera are putative polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) that have been found in greater abundance than Accumulibacter in many full-scale enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) wastewater treatment plants worldwide. Nevertheless, previous studies on the effect of environmental conditions, such as pH, on the performance of EBPR have focused mainly on the response of Accumulibacter to pH changes. This study examines the impact of pH on a Tetrasphaera PAO enriched culture, over a pH range from 6.0 to 8.0 under both anaerobic and aerobic conditions, to assess its impact on the stoichiometry and kinetics of Tetrasphaera metabolism. It was discovered that the rates of phosphorus (P) uptake and P release increased with an increase of pH within the tested range, while PHA production, glycogen consumption and substrate uptake rate were less sensitive to pH changes. The results suggest that Tetrasphaera PAOs display kinetic advantages at high pH levels, which is consistent with what has been observed previously for Accumulibacter PAOs. The results of this study show that pH has a substantial impact on the P release and uptake kinetics of PAOs, where the P release rate was >3 times higher and the P uptake rate was >2 times higher at pH 8.0 vs pH 6.0, respectively. Process operational strategies promoting both Tetrasphaera and Accumulibacter activity at high pH do not conflict with each other, but lead to a potentially synergistic impact that can benefit EBPR performance.
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- P.Y. Nguyen
- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica 2829-516, Portugal
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- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica 2829-516, Portugal
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica 2829-516, Portugal
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- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica 2829-516, Portugal
- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
- Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology (formerly AWMC), The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica 2829-516, Portugal
- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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Wang J, Zhang C, Li P, Xu H, Wang W, Yin W, Wu J, Hu Z. Bioaugmentation with Tetrasphaera to improve biological phosphorus removal from anaerobic digestate of swine wastewater. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2023; 373:128744. [PMID: 36791978 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.128744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Revised: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Tetrasphaera-enhanced biological phosphorus removal (T-EBPR) was developed by augmenting conventional EBPR (C-EBPR) with Tetrasphaera to improve phosphorus removal from anaerobic digestate of swine wastewater. At influent total phosphorus (TP) concentrations of 45-55 mg/L, T-EBPR achieved effluent TP concentration of 4.17 ± 1.02 mg/L, 54 % lower than that in C-EBPR (8.98 ± 0.76 mg/L). The enhanced phosphorous removal was presumably due to the synergistic effect of Candidatus Accumulibacter and Tetrasphaera occupying different ecological niches. Bioaugmentation with Tetrasphaera promoted the polyphosphate accumulation metabolism depending more on the glycolysis pathway, as evidenced by an increase in intracellular storage compounds of glycogen and polyhydroxyalkanoates by 0.87 and 0.34 mmol C/L, respectively. The enhanced intracellular storage capacity was coincidentally linked to the increase in phosphorus release and uptake rates by 1.23 and 1.01 times, respectively. These results suggest bioaugmentation with Tetrasphaera could be an efficient way for improved phosphorus removal from high-strength wastewater.
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- Jiaxin Wang
- School of Environment and Energy, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Solid Wastes Pollution Control and Recycling, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA 70813, USA
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- School of Environment and Energy, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Solid Wastes Pollution Control and Recycling, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China; Zhongshan Institute of Modern Industrial Technology of South China University of Technology, Zhongshan 528400, China.
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- School of Environment and Energy, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Solid Wastes Pollution Control and Recycling, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Environment and Energy, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Solid Wastes Pollution Control and Recycling, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Environment, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- School of Environment and Energy, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Solid Wastes Pollution Control and Recycling, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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Zhao W, Bi X, Peng Y, Bai M. Research advances of the phosphorus-accumulating organisms of Candidatus Accumulibacter, Dechloromonas and Tetrasphaera: Metabolic mechanisms, applications and influencing factors. CHEMOSPHERE 2022; 307:135675. [PMID: 35842039 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Revised: 06/19/2022] [Accepted: 07/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Phosphorus-accumulating organisms (PAOs), which harbor metabolic mechanisms for phosphorus removal, are widely applied in wastewater treatment. Recently, novel PAOs and phosphorus removal metabolic pathways have been identified and studied. Specifically, Dechloromonas and Tetrasphaera can remove phosphorus via the denitrifying phosphorus removal and fermentation phosphorus removal pathways, respectively. As the main PAOs in biological phosphorus removal systems, the conventional PAO Candidatus Accumulibacter and the novel PAOs Dechloromonas and Tetrasphaera are thoroughly discussed in this paper, with a specific focus on their phosphorus removal metabolic mechanisms, process applications, community abundance and influencing factors. Dechloromonas can achieve simultaneous nitrogen and phosphorus removal in an anoxic environment through the denitrifying phosphorus removal metabolic pathway, which can further reduce carbon source requirements and aeration energy consumption. The metabolic pathways of Tetrasphaera are diverse, with phosphorus removal occurring in conjunction with macromolecular organics degradation through anaerobic fermentation. A collaborative oxic phosphorus removal pathway between Tetrasphaera and Ca. Accumulibacter, or a collaborative anoxic denitrifying phosphorus removal pathway between Tetrasphaera and Dechloromonas are future development directions for biological phosphorus removal technologies, which can further reduce carbon source and energy consumption while achieving enhanced phosphorus removal.
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- Weihua Zhao
- State and Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recycling, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, 266033, PR China; 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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- State and Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recycling, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, 266033, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China.
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recycling, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, 266033, PR China
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Liu H, Zeng W, Meng Q, Fan Z, Peng Y. Phosphorus removal performance, intracellular metabolites and clade-level community structure of Tetrasphaera-dominated polyphosphate accumulating organisms at different temperatures. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 842:156913. [PMID: 35753450 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2022] [Revised: 06/17/2022] [Accepted: 06/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Tetrasphaera are polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) that play an important role in enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) from wastewater. The effect of a wide range of temperature changes (1-30 °C) on phosphorus removal, metabolism and clade-level community structure of Tetrasphaera-dominated PAOs was investigated. At 10 °C, the bioactivities of Tetrasphaera-dominated communities were obviously inhibited and the EBPR efficiency was only 73 %. Yet at 20-30 °C, EBPR efficiency reached 99 % and the relative abundance of Tetrasphaera was up to 90 %. The temperature variation changed the community distribution of Tetrasphaera clades, which was possibly a main reason for EBPR performance. Amino acids and PHA with different contents were intracellular metabolite of Tetrasphaera-dominated communities during phosphorus release and uptake at different temperatures. Moreover, Tetrasphaera fermented protein and amino acids and released VFAs. The outcomes suggested the great potential of Tetrasphaera-PAOs in the treatment of wastewater with varying temperatures and limited carbon sources.
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- Hongjun Liu
- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China.
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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Maszenan AM, Bessarab I, Williams RBH, Petrovski S, Seviour RJ. The phylogeny, ecology and ecophysiology of the glycogen accumulating organism (GAO) Defluviicoccus in wastewater treatment plants. WATER RESEARCH 2022; 221:118729. [PMID: 35714465 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.118729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2022] [Revised: 05/22/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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This comprehensive review looks critically what is known about members of the genus Defluviicoccus, an example of a glycogen accumulating organism (GAO), in wastewater treatment plants, but found also in other habitats. It considers the operating conditions thought to affect its performance in activated sludge plants designed to remove phosphorus microbiologically, including the still controversial view that it competes with the polyphosphate accumulating bacterium Ca. Accumulibacter for readily biodegradable substrates in the anaerobic zone receiving the influent raw sewage. It looks at its present phylogeny and what is known about it's physiology and biochemistry under the highly selective conditions of these plants, where the biomass is recycled continuously through alternative anaerobic (feed); aerobic (famine) conditions encountered there. The impact of whole genome sequence data, which have revealed considerable intra- and interclade genotypic diversity, on our understanding of its in situ behaviour is also addressed. Particular attention is paid to the problems in much of the literature data based on clone library and next generation DNA sequencing data, where Defluviicoccus identification is restricted to genus level only. Equally problematic, in many publications no attempt has been made to distinguish between Defluviicoccus and the other known GAO, especially Ca. Competibacter, which, as shown here, has a very different ecophysiology. The impact this has had and continues to have on our understanding of members of this genus is discussed, as is the present controversy over its taxonomy. It also suggests where research should be directed to answer some of the important research questions raised in this review.
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- Abdul M Maszenan
- E2S2, NUS Environmental Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 117411, Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117456, Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117456, Singapore
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- Department of Microbiology, Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology, La Trobe University, 3086 Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology, Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology, La Trobe University, 3086 Victoria, Australia.
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Singleton CM, Petriglieri F, Wasmund K, Nierychlo M, Kondrotaite Z, Petersen JF, Peces M, Dueholm MS, Wagner M, Nielsen PH. The novel genus, 'Candidatus Phosphoribacter', previously identified as Tetrasphaera, is the dominant polyphosphate accumulating lineage in EBPR wastewater treatment plants worldwide. THE ISME JOURNAL 2022; 16:1605-1616. [PMID: 35217776 PMCID: PMC9123174 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-022-01212-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2021] [Revised: 01/26/2022] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The bacterial genus Tetrasphaera encompasses abundant polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) that are responsible for enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) in wastewater treatment plants. Recent analyses of genomes from pure cultures revealed that 16S rRNA genes cannot resolve the lineage, and that Tetrasphaera spp. are from several different genera within the Dermatophilaceae. Here, we examine 14 recently recovered high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes from wastewater treatment plants containing full-length 16S rRNA genes identified as Tetrasphaera, 11 of which belong to the uncultured Tetrasphaera clade 3. We find that this clade represents two distinct genera, named here Ca. Phosphoribacter and Ca. Lutibacillus, and reveal that the widely used model organism Tetrasphaera elongata is less relevant for physiological predictions of this uncultured group. Ca. Phosphoribacter incorporates species diversity unresolved at the 16S rRNA gene level, with the two most abundant and often co-occurring species encoding identical V1-V3 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequence variants but different metabolic capabilities, and possibly, niches. Both Ca. P. hodrii and Ca. P. baldrii were visualised using fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH), and PAO capabilities were confirmed with FISH-Raman microspectroscopy and phosphate cycling experiments. Ca. Phosphoribacter represents the most abundant former Tetrasphaera lineage and PAO in EPBR systems in Denmark and globally.
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- C M Singleton
- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
- Division of Microbial Ecology, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
- Division of Microbial Ecology, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
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Tian Y, Chen H, Chen L, Deng X, Hu Z, Wang C, Wei C, Qiu G, Wuertz S. Glycine adversely affects enhanced biological phosphorus removal. WATER RESEARCH 2022; 209:117894. [PMID: 34890912 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2021] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 11/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) is used extensively in full-scale wastewater treatment plants for the removal of phosphorus. Despite previous evidence showing that glycine is a carbon source for a certain lineage of polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) such as Tetrasphaera, it is still unknown whether glycine can support EBPR. We observed an overall adverse effect of glycine on EBPR using activated sludge from both full-scale wastewater treatment plants and lab-scale reactors harboring distant and diverse PAOs and glycogen accumulating organisms (GAOs), including Candidatus Accumulibacter, Thiothrix, Tetrasphaera, Dechloromonas, Ca. Competibacter, and Defluviicoccus, among others. Glycine induced phosphorus (P) release under anaerobic conditions without being effectively taken up by cells. The induced P release rate correlated with glycine concentration in the range of 10 to 50 mg C/L. PAOs continued to release P in the presence of glycine under aerobic conditions without any evident P uptake. Under mixed carbon conditions, the occurrence of glycine did not seem to affect acetate uptake; however, it significantly reduced the rate of P uptake in the aerobic phase. Overall, glycine did not appear to be an effective carbon source for a majority of PAOs and GAOs in full-scale and lab-scale systems, and neither did other community members utilize glycine under anaerobic or aerobic conditions. Metatranscriptomic analysis showed the transcription of glycine cleavage T, P and H protein genes, but not of the L protein or the downstream genes in the glycine cleavage pathway, suggesting barriers to metabolizing glycine. The high transcription of a gene encoding a drug/metabolite transporter suggests a potential efflux mechanism, where glycine transported into the cells is in turn exported at the expense of ATP, resulting in P release without affecting the glycine concentration in solution. The ability of glycine to induce P release without cellular uptake suggests a way to effectively recover P from P-enriched waste sludge.
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- Yucheng Tian
- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China; Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration in Industrial Clusters, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China; Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637551, Singapore; Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration in Industrial Clusters, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 510006, China.
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637551, Singapore; School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
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Dockx L, Caluwé M, De Vleeschauwer F, Dobbeleers T, Dries J. Impact of the substrate composition on enhanced biological phosphorus removal during formation of aerobic granular sludge. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2021; 337:125482. [PMID: 34320762 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Revised: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 06/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Performance of enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) is often investigated with simple synthetic wastewater containing volatile fatty acids (VFAs). In this study, various (fermentable) substrates, individually and in mixtures, were examined during the application of a granulation strategy. In addition, the microbial community and N2O formation were monitored. Sludge densification was observed in all systems. Stable EBPR, associated with the presence of Accumulibacter and an anaerobic P-release up to 21.9 mgPO43--P.gVSS-1, was only obtained when VFAs were present as sole substrate or in mixture. Systems fed with VFAs were strongly related to the formation of N2O (maximum of 6.25% relative to the total available nitrogen). A moderate anaerobic dissolved organic carbon (DOC) uptake was observed when amino acids (64.27 ± 3.08%) and glucose (75.39 ± 5.79%) as sole carbon source were applied. The substrate/species-specific enrichment of Burkholderiaceae and Saccharimonadaceae respectively, resulted in unstable EBPR in those systems.
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- Lennert Dockx
- BioWAVE, Biochemical Wastewater Valorization and Engineering, Faculty of Applied Engineering, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
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- BioWAVE, Biochemical Wastewater Valorization and Engineering, Faculty of Applied Engineering, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
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- BioWAVE, Biochemical Wastewater Valorization and Engineering, Faculty of Applied Engineering, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
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- BioWAVE, Biochemical Wastewater Valorization and Engineering, Faculty of Applied Engineering, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
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- BioWAVE, Biochemical Wastewater Valorization and Engineering, Faculty of Applied Engineering, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium.
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Close K, Marques R, Carvalho VCF, Freitas EB, Reis MAM, Carvalho G, Oehmen A. The storage compounds associated with Tetrasphaera PAO metabolism and the relationship between diversity and P removal. WATER RESEARCH 2021; 204:117621. [PMID: 34500182 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Revised: 08/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/25/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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In enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR), Tetrasphaera can potentially be an abundant and important polyphosphate accumulating organism (PAO), however ongoing questions remain concerning its storage compounds, phosphorus (P) removal capabilities and metabolic behaviour. This study investigated each of these points in an enriched Tetrasphaera culture (95% biovolume). The enriched Tetrasphaera culture fermented amino acids, while also converting and storing diverse amino acids as aspartic and glutamic acid within cells. Subsequent intracellular consumption of these two amino acids during the aerobic phase supports their importance in the metabolism of Tetrasphaera. Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) cycling was also observed in this study, in contrast to some previous studies on Tetrasphaera. While exhibiting anaerobic phosphorus release and aerobic uptake, the highly enriched Tetrasphaera culture was unable to completely remove phosphorus in sequencing batch reactors (SBR) cycles, with an average removal efficiency of 72.3 ± 7.8%. This is unlike a previous study containing both Tetrasphaera (70%) and Accumulibacter (22%), which regularly performed complete phosphorus removal under otherwise similar operational conditions, at efficiencies of > 99%. Notably, the phylodiversity of organisms belonging to Tetrasphaera was substantially different in the present work, consisting mainly of organisms within Clade 2, likely impacting PHA cycling. These results suggest that the contribution of Tetrasphaera towards P removal is highly dependent on the composition of its Clades within this microbial group and an observed higher abundance of Tetrasphaera in WWTPs does not necessarily imply overall higher P removal. This study improves our understanding of the role of Tetrasphaera within EBPR systems and key factors impacting its metabolism.
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- Kylie Close
- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
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- UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal; Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC), The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia; UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
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Diversity of actinobacteria in sediments of Qaidam Lake and Qinghai Lake, China. Arch Microbiol 2021; 203:2875-2885. [PMID: 33751173 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-021-02277-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2020] [Revised: 02/27/2021] [Accepted: 03/10/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Using 16S rRNA gene analysis and high-throughput, the diversity and community structure of actinobacteria in the sediments of Qaidam Lake and Qinghai Lake with different salinity and alkalinity in Qinghai-Xizang Plateau were studied, and the differences of actinobacteria community structure and their relationship with environmental factors were discussed. A total of 77 genera belonging to actinobacteria were found in the samples, of which 31 genera were found in the sediment samples of Qaidam Lake with 19 genera being dominant genera, such as Actinomycetes, Corynebacterium, Morella, Bifidobacterium, and 69 genera were found in the sediment samples of Qinghai Lake with 17 genera becoming dominant, such as Ilumattalaer, Actinotalea, Aquihaans and so on. The correlation analysis of environmental factors and community showed that the community structure of the two salt lakes was mainly affected by total salinity, total organic carbon) (TOC) and CO32-, among which TOC was the most influential factor. The functional differences of metabolic pathway enrichment analysis (KEGG) showed that there was a high abundance of metabolic-related functions in the two salt lakes. There were significant differences in the biosynthesis of energy metabolism and other secondary metabolites between the two salt lakes, which may be the main reason for the difference of actinomycete community. The results show that the actinobacteria diversity was rich in the plateau salt lakes, and affected by a variety of physicochemical factors. In addition, there were a large number of unculturable actinobacteria in the sediment, which provides a theoretical basis for the excavation and utilization of actinobacteria resources in salt lakes.
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Jiang C, McIlroy SJ, Qi R, Petriglieri F, Yashiro E, Kondrotaite Z, Nielsen PH. Identification of microorganisms responsible for foam formation in mesophilic anaerobic digesters treating surplus activated sludge. WATER RESEARCH 2021; 191:116779. [PMID: 33401166 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.116779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2020] [Revised: 12/06/2020] [Accepted: 12/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Foaming is a common operational problem in anaerobic digestion (AD) systems, where hydrophobic filamentous microorganisms are usually considered to be the major cause. However, little is known about the identity of foam-stabilising microorganisms in AD systems, and control measures are lacking. This study identified putative foam forming microorganisms in 13 full-scale mesophilic digesters located at 11 wastewater treatment plants in Denmark, using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing with species-level resolution and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for visualization. A foaming potential aeration test was applied to classify the digester sludges according to their foaming propensity. A high foaming potential for sludges was linked to the abundance of species from the genus Candidatus Microthrix, immigrating with the feed stream (surplus activated sludge), but also to several novel phylotypes potentially growing in the digester. These species were classified to the genera Ca. Brevefilum (Ca. B. fermentans) and Tetrasphaera (midas_s_5), the families ST-12K33 (midas_s_22), and Rikenellaceae (midas_s_141), and the archaeal genus Methanospirillum (midas_s_2576). Application of FISH showed that these potential foam-forming organisms all had a filamentous morphology. Additionally, it was shown that concentrations of ammonium and total nitrogen correlated strongly to the presence of foam-formers. This study provided new insight into the identity of putative foam-forming microorganisms in mesophilic AD systems, allowing for the subsequent surveillance of their abundances and studies of their ecology. Such information will importantly inform the development of control measures for these problematic microorganisms.
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- Chenjing Jiang
- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark; Key Laboratory of Engineering Oceanography, Second Institute of Oceanography, SOA, Hangzhou, 310012, China
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark; Centre for Microbiome Research, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Translational Research Institute, Woolloongabba, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 10085, China
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark.
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Tian Q, Jiao P, Lu H, Zhu Y, Wolfgang S. Dissolved organic matter byproducts from combined low-level alkaline and mechanical treatment of sludge: species, and their bioavailability. WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY : A JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ON WATER POLLUTION RESEARCH 2021; 83:1446-1458. [PMID: 33767049 DOI: 10.2166/wst.2021.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Low-level alkalinity (pH 9-10) coupled with ultrasonic or mechanical cutting with different energy input for obtaining carbon sources were tested for sludge pretreatment process before anaerobic sludge digestion. The differences between the primary sludge (PS) and waste activated sludge (WAS)-derived dissolved organic matter (DOM) species were evaluated for their bioavailability and affinity (in the form of amino acids) to the bio-nutrient removal (BNR) biomass. Soluble microbial by-product-like substances as the predominant DOM components in the raw PS and WAS increased by 23 and 22%, respectively, after low-level alkaline treatment (pH 9-10) and ultrasonication. In addition, the protein components were degraded further as free amino acids (FAAs). The sludge-derived aspartate, glutamate, followed by arginine were the most commonly used FAAs by the BNR biomass. The pattern of recovering this special sludge-derived carbon source to enhance P removal and recovery in the BNR process is depicted.
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- Qing Tian
- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, DongHua University, 2999 Shanghai North People's Road, 201620, Shanghai, China E-mail:
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, DongHua University, 2999 Shanghai North People's Road, 201620, Shanghai, China E-mail:
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, DongHua University, 2999 Shanghai North People's Road, 201620, Shanghai, China E-mail:
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, DongHua University, 2999 Shanghai North People's Road, 201620, Shanghai, China E-mail:
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, DongHua University, 2999 Shanghai North People's Road, 201620, Shanghai, China E-mail: ; Aquatische Biotechnologie Biofilm Centre, University Duisburg-Essen, 45141 Essen, Germany and Technical University and Minin04 g Academy, 09599, Freiberg, Germany
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Roy S, Guanglei Q, Zuniga-Montanez R, Williams RB, Wuertz S. Recent advances in understanding the ecophysiology of enhanced biological phosphorus removal. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2021; 67:166-174. [PMID: 33582603 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2021.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2020] [Revised: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) is an efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable method for removing excess phosphorus from wastewater. Polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) exhibit a unique physiology alternating between anaerobic conditions for uptake of carbon substrates and aerobic or anoxic conditions for phosphorus uptake. The implementation of high-throughput sequencing technologies and advanced molecular tools along with biochemical characterization has provided many new perspectives on the EBPR process. These approaches have helped identify a wide range of carbon substrates and electron acceptors utilized by PAOs that in turn influence interactions with microbial community members and determine overall phosphorus removal efficiency. In this review, we systematically discuss the microbial diversity and metabolic response to a range of environmental conditions and process control strategies in EBPR.
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- Samarpita Roy
- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077, Singapore
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- School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637551, Singapore; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, United States
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077, Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637551, Singapore; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, United States; School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
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Zheng F, Wang J, Xiao R, Chai W, Xing D, Lu H. Dissolved organic nitrogen in wastewater treatment processes: Transformation, biosynthesis and ecological impacts. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2021; 273:116436. [PMID: 33493760 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.116436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2020] [Revised: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 01/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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With the upgrade of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to meet more stringent discharge limits for nutrients, dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) is present at an increasing percentage (up to 85%) in the effluent. Discharged DON is of great environmental concern due to its potentials in stimulating algal growth and forming toxic nitrogenous disinfection by-products (N-DBPs). This article systematically reviewed the characteristics, transformation and ecological impacts of wastewater DON. Proteins, amino acids and humic substances are the abundant DON compounds, but a large fraction (nearly 50%) of DON remains uncharacterized. Biological treatment processes play a dominant role in DON transformation (65-90%), where DON serves as both nutrient and energy sources. Despite of the above progress, critical knowledge gaps remain in DON functional duality, relationship with dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) species, and coupling/decoupling with the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool. Development of more rapid and accurate quantification methods, modeling transformation processes, and assessing DON-associated eutrophication and N-DBP formation risks should be given priority in further investigations.
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- Fang Zheng
- Key Laboratory of Environment Remediation and Ecological Health, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, 310058, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Environment Remediation and Ecological Health, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, 310058, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Environment Remediation and Ecological Health, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, 310058, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Environment Remediation and Ecological Health, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, 310058, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090, China
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- Key Laboratory of Environment Remediation and Ecological Health, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, 310058, Hangzhou, China; State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090, China.
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The community compositions of three nitrogen removal wastewater treatment plants of different configurations in Victoria, Australia, over a 12-month operational period. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2020; 104:9839-9852. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-020-10901-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2020] [Revised: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 09/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Terashima M, Kamagata Y, Kato S. Rapid Enrichment and Isolation of Polyphosphate-Accumulating Organisms Through 4'6-Diamidino-2-Phenylindole (DAPI) Staining With Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting (FACS). Front Microbiol 2020; 11:793. [PMID: 32425914 PMCID: PMC7203516 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2020] [Accepted: 04/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Screening for bacteria with abilities to accumulate valuable intracellular compounds from an environmental community is difficult and requires strategic methods. Combining the experimental procedure for phenotyping living cells in a microbial community with the cell recovery necessary for further cultivation will allow for an efficient initial screening process. In this study, we developed a strategy for the isolation of polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs) by combining (i) nontoxic fluorescence staining of polyphosphate granules in viable microbial cells and (ii) fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) for the rapid detection and collection of target cells. To implement this screening approach, cells from wastewater sludge samples were stained with 4’6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) to target cells with high polyphosphate (polyP) accumulation. We found a staining procedure (10 μg/ml of DAPI for 30 min) that can visualize polyP granules while maintaining viability for the majority of the cells (>60%). The polyP positive cells were recovered by FACS, purified by colony isolation and phylogenetically identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Follow-up analysis confirmed that these isolates accumulate polyP, indicating that DAPI can be implemented in staining living cells and FACS can effectively and rapidly screen and isolate individual cells from a complex microbial community.
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- Mia Terashima
- Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Sapporo, Japan.,Division of Applied Bioscience, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Sapporo, Japan.,Division of Applied Bioscience, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.,Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
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- Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Sapporo, Japan.,Division of Applied Bioscience, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Santos JMM, Rieger L, Lanham AB, Carvalheira M, Reis MAM, Oehmen A. A novel metabolic-ASM model for full-scale biological nutrient removal systems. WATER RESEARCH 2020; 171:115373. [PMID: 31846822 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.115373] [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: 08/02/2019] [Revised: 11/23/2019] [Accepted: 12/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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This study demonstrates that META-ASM, a new integrated metabolic activated sludge model, provides an overall platform to describe the activity of the key organisms and processes relevant to biological nutrient removal (BNR) systems with a robust single-set of default parameters. This model overcomes various shortcomings of existing enhanced biological phosphorous removal (EBPR) models studied over the last twenty years. The model has been tested against 34 data sets from enriched lab polyphosphate accumulating organism (PAO)-glycogen accumulating organism (GAO) cultures and experiments with full-scale sludge from five water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs) with two different process configurations: three stage Phoredox (A2/O) and adapted Biodenitro™ combined with a return sludge sidestream hydrolysis tank (RSS). Special attention is given to the operational conditions affecting the competition between PAOs and GAOs, capability of PAOs and GAOs to denitrify, metabolic shifts as a function of storage polymer concentrations, as well as the role of these polymers in endogenous processes and fermentation. The overall good correlations obtained between the predicted versus measured EBPR profiles from different data sets support that this new model, which is based on in-depth understanding of EBPR, reduces calibration efforts. On the other hand, the performance comparison between META-ASM and literature models demonstrates that existing literature models require extensive parameter changes and have limited predictive power, especially in the prediction of long-term EBPR performance. The development of such a model able to describe in detail the microbial and chemical transformations of BNR systems with minimal adjustment to parameters suggests that the META-ASM model is a powerful tool to predict and mitigate EBPR upsets, optimise EBPR performance and to evaluate new process designs.
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- Jorge M M Santos
- UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences and Tecnology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal.
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- UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences and Tecnology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal
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- UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences and Tecnology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal
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- UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences and Tecnology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal
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- UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences and Tecnology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal
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Dorofeev AG, Nikolaev YA, Mardanov AV, Pimenov NV. Role of Phosphate-Accumulating Bacteria in Biological Phosphorus Removal from Wastewater. APPL BIOCHEM MICRO+ 2020. [DOI: 10.1134/s0003683820010056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Qiu G, Liu X, Saw NMMT, Law Y, Zuniga-Montanez R, Thi SS, Ngoc Nguyen TQ, Nielsen PH, Williams RBH, Wuertz S. Metabolic Traits of Candidatus Accumulibacter clade IIF Strain SCELSE-1 Using Amino Acids As Carbon Sources for Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2020; 54:2448-2458. [PMID: 31790213 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b02901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Despite recent evidence from full-scale plants suggesting that Candidatus Accumulibacter may be capable of using amino acids, this metabolic trait has never been confirmed in a bioreactor experiment. Here we show that an enriched culture of Ca. Accumulibacter clade IIF strain SCELSE-1 could metabolize 11 of 20 α-amino acids, with aspartate, glutamate, asparagine, and glutamine resulting in the highest phosphorus removal. The anaerobic uptake of aspartate and glutamate was achieved through a glutamate/aspartate-proton symporter fully powered by the proton motive force (PMF). Under anaerobic conditions aspartate was deaminized and routed into core carbon metabolic pathways to form polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA). The lack of genes encoding NADH dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase in the Ca. Accumulibacter genome resulted in a kinetic barrier for glutamate to be channelled to the TCA cycle. Glutamate was stored as glutamate polymer. When amino acids (aspartate or glutamate) and acetate were supplied together, Ca. Accumulibacter took up both carbon sources simultaneously, with the uptake rate of each carbon source largely preserved. Overall energy savings (up to 17%) were achieved under mixed carbon scenarios, due to the ability of Ca. Accumulibacter to rearrange its anaerobic carbon metabolism based on the reducing power, PMF and ATP balance.
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- Guanglei Qiu
- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 637551 , Singapore
- School of Environment and Energy , South China University of Technology , Guangzhou 510006 , China
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 637551 , Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 637551 , Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 637551 , Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 637551 , Singapore
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, One Shields Avenue , University of California , Davis , California 95616 , United States
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 637551 , Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 637551 , Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 637551 , Singapore
- Centre for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience , Aalborg University , DK-9220 , Aalborg , Denmark
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering , National University of Singapore , Singapore 119077 , Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 637551 , Singapore
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, One Shields Avenue , University of California , Davis , California 95616 , United States
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 639798 , Singapore
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Wang B, Zeng W, Fan Z, Wang C, Meng Q, Peng Y. Effects of polyaluminium chloride addition on community structures of polyphosphate and glycogen accumulating organisms in biological phosphorus removal (BPR) systems. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2020; 297:122431. [PMID: 31780243 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2019] [Revised: 11/10/2019] [Accepted: 11/12/2019] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Polyaluminium chloride (PAC) was added into the biological phosphorus removal (BPR) systems to investigate the populations of polyphosphate and glycogen accumulating organisms (PAOs and GAOs). Typical BPR performed under Al:P of 1:1, while BPR almost disappeared at Al:P of 4:1. Even with high PAC addition, PAOs still existed in systems. Compared to the BPR with no PAC addition, the relative abundance of Accumulibacter, Tetrasphaera and Commnadaceae slightly increased with PAC addition. The relative abundance of Dechloromonas was improved from 0.87% to 3.82%, becoming the most dominant PAOs. The specific structures of Accumulibacter and Tetrasphaera changed little, but that of Dechloromonas and Comamonadaceae significantly altered. Regarding the GAOs, the relative abundance of Competibacter and Defluviicoccus significantly declined. Additionally, PAC addition effectively inhibited the proliferation of filamentous bacteria, indicating its potential in inhibiting the sludge filamentous bulking. This study provided guidance for the selection of the phosphorus removal process and operational conditions.
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- Baogui Wang
- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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Bertanza G, Menoni L, Capoferri GU, Pedrazzani R. Promoting biological phosphorus removal in a full scale pre-denitrification wastewater treatment plant. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2020; 254:109803. [PMID: 31733473 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2019] [Revised: 10/14/2019] [Accepted: 10/28/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A survey conducted in Italy revealed that less than 0.5% out of a sample of over 2,000 municipal wastewater treatment plants is equipped with an enhanced biological phosphorus removal process. Conditions promoting biological phosphorus removal have been investigated by monitoring three real plants equipped with, respectively: (A) simultaneous chemical precipitation; (B) enhanced biological removal powered by chemical precipitation; (C) tertiary chemical precipitation with evidence of phosphate accumulating bacteria. An anaerobic compartment revealed essential for the growth of these microorganisms, the readily degradable organic concentration in the influent playing a minor role. Mapping dissolved oxygen and oxidation-reduction potential in different compartments of plant (C) was carried out to understand the reasons why phosphate accumulating bacteria were found even in the absence of anaerobic reactor. Finally, the possibility to exploit the biological phosphorus removal in plant (C), by adjusting the aeration conditions, was explored and an economic analysis showed this to be a preferable approach with respect to the chemical removal of phosphorus.
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- Giorgio Bertanza
- DICATAM - Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture, Land, Environment and Mathematics, University of Brescia, Via Branze 43, I-25123, Brescia, Italy
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- DICATAM - Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture, Land, Environment and Mathematics, University of Brescia, Via Branze 43, I-25123, Brescia, Italy
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- DICATAM - Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture, Land, Environment and Mathematics, University of Brescia, Via Branze 43, I-25123, Brescia, Italy
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- DIMI - Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, I-25123, Brescia, Italy.
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Liu R, Hao X, Chen Q, Li J. Research advances of Tetrasphaera in enhanced biological phosphorus removal: A review. WATER RESEARCH 2019; 166:115003. [PMID: 31491619 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.115003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2019] [Revised: 08/16/2019] [Accepted: 08/18/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The processes of enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) have been widely applied in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). However, meeting the increasingly stringent effluent discharge standards requires a more stable EBPR performance. Under the circumstances, the identification of genus Tetrasphaera as potential phosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) has aroused much research interests on them. In practice, a large biovolume of genus Tetrasphaera has been reliably observed in a number (up to 80) of WWTPs around the world. Tetrasphaera show a phenotype of aerobic polyphosphate (poly-P) accumulation at the condition of assimilating glucose and/or amino acids anaerobically in advance. Moreover, Tetrasphaera also present versatile physiologies, of which some show no net orthophosphate removal. While there are certainly some contradictory results and gaps in our knowledge concerning Tetrasphaera, this review summarizes the discovery, abundance in WWTPs, functions on EBPR, and biochemistry of the genus Tetrasphaera in the existing literature. It is expected to present the state-of-art progress about the genus Tetrasphaera, and to guide future R & D work.
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- Ranbin Liu
- Sino-Dutch R&D Centre for Future Wastewater Treatment Technologies, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Urban Design, Beijing University of Civil Engineering & Architecture, Beijing, 100044, PR China
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- Sino-Dutch R&D Centre for Future Wastewater Treatment Technologies, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Urban Design, Beijing University of Civil Engineering & Architecture, Beijing, 100044, PR China.
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- Sino-Dutch R&D Centre for Future Wastewater Treatment Technologies, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Urban Design, Beijing University of Civil Engineering & Architecture, Beijing, 100044, PR China
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- Sino-Dutch R&D Centre for Future Wastewater Treatment Technologies, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Urban Design, Beijing University of Civil Engineering & Architecture, Beijing, 100044, PR China
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Dorofeev AG, Nikolaev YA, Mardanov AV, Pimenov NV. Cyclic Metabolism as a Mode of Microbial Existence. Microbiology (Reading) 2019. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026261719040052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The Proteome of Tetrasphaera elongata is adapted to Changing Conditions in Wastewater Treatment Plants. Proteomes 2019; 7:proteomes7020016. [PMID: 31027192 PMCID: PMC6630437 DOI: 10.3390/proteomes7020016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2019] [Revised: 04/19/2019] [Accepted: 04/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The activated sludge in wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) designed for enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) experiences periodically changing nutrient and oxygen availability. Tetrasphaera is the most abundant genus in Danish WWTP and represents up to 20–30% of the activated sludge community based on 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and quantitative fluorescence in situ hybridization analyses, although the genus is in low abundance in the influent wastewater. Here we investigated how Tetrasphaera can successfully out-compete most other microorganisms in such highly dynamic ecosystems. To achieve this, we analyzed the physiological adaptations of the WWTP isolate T. elongata str. LP2 during an aerobic to anoxic shift by label-free quantitative proteomics and NMR-metabolomics. Escherichia coli was used as reference organism as it shares several metabolic capabilities and is regularly introduced to wastewater treatment plants without succeeding there. When compared to E. coli, only minor changes in the proteome of T. elongata were observed after the switch to anoxic conditions. This indicates that metabolic pathways for anaerobic energy harvest were already expressed during the aerobic growth. This allows continuous growth of Tetrasphaera immediately after the switch to anoxic conditions. Metabolomics furthermore revealed that the substrates provided were exploited far more efficiently by Tetrasphaera than by E. coli. These results suggest that T. elongata prospers in the dynamic WWTP environment due to adaptation to the changing environmental conditions.
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Re-evaluating the microbiology of the enhanced biological phosphorus removal process. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2019; 57:111-118. [PMID: 30959426 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2019.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2018] [Revised: 02/01/2019] [Accepted: 03/03/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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We have critically assessed some of the dogmas in the microbiology of enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) and argue that the genus Tetrasphaera can be as important as Ca. Accumulibacter for phosphorus removal; and that proliferation of their competitors, the glycogen accumulating organisms, does not appear to be a practical problem for EBPR efficiency even under tropical conditions. An increasing number of EBPR-related genomes are changing our understanding of their physiology, for example, their potential to participate in denitrification. Rather than trying to identify organisms that adhere to strict phenotype metabolic models, we advocate for broader analyses of the whole microbial communities in EBPR plants by iterative studies with isolates, lab enrichments, and full-scale systems.
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Resolving the individual contribution of key microbial populations to enhanced biological phosphorus removal with Raman-FISH. ISME JOURNAL 2019; 13:1933-1946. [PMID: 30894691 PMCID: PMC6776032 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-019-0399-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2018] [Revised: 02/02/2019] [Accepted: 02/28/2019] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) is a globally important biotechnological process and relies on the massive accumulation of phosphate within special microorganisms. Candidatus Accumulibacter conform to the classical physiology model for polyphosphate accumulating organisms and are widely believed to be the most important player for the process in full-scale EBPR systems. However, it was impossible till now to quantify the contribution of specific microbial clades to EBPR. In this study, we have developed a new tool to directly link the identity of microbial cells to the absolute quantification of intracellular poly-P and other polymers under in situ conditions, and applied it to eight full-scale EBPR plants. Besides Ca. Accumulibacter, members of the genus Tetrasphaera were found to be important microbes for P accumulation, and in six plants they were the most important. As these Tetrasphaera cells did not exhibit the classical phenotype of poly-P accumulating microbes, our entire understanding of the microbiology of the EBPR process has to be revised. Furthermore, our new single-cell approach can now also be applied to quantify storage polymer dynamics in individual populations in situ in other ecosystems and might become a valuable tool for many environmental microbiologists.
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Qiu G, Zuniga-Montanez R, Law Y, Thi SS, Nguyen TQN, Eganathan K, Liu X, Nielsen PH, Williams RBH, Wuertz S. Polyphosphate-accumulating organisms in full-scale tropical wastewater treatment plants use diverse carbon sources. WATER RESEARCH 2019; 149:496-510. [PMID: 30476778 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2018.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2018] [Revised: 10/17/2018] [Accepted: 11/06/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) is considered challenging in the tropics, based on a great number of laboratory-based studies showing that the polyphosphate-accumulating organism (PAO) Candidatus Accumulibacter does not compete well with glycogen accumulating organisms (GAOs) at temperatures above 25 °C. Yet limited information is available on the PAO community and the metabolic capabilities in full-scale EBPR systems operating at high temperature. We studied the composition of the key functional PAO communities in three full-scale wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) with high in-situ EBPR activity in Singapore, their EBPR-associated carbon usage characteristics, and the relationship between carbon usage and community composition. Each plant had a signature community composed of diverse putative PAOs with multiple operational taxonomic units (OTUs) affiliated to Ca. Accumulibacter, Tetrasphaera spp., Dechloromonas and Ca. Obscuribacter. Despite the differences in community composition, ex-situ anaerobic phosphorus (P)-release tests with 24 organic compounds from five categories (including four sugars, three alcohols, three volatile fatty acids (VFAs), eight amino acids and six other carboxylic acids) showed that a wide range of organic compounds could potentially contribute to EBPR. VFAs induced the highest P release (12.0-18.2 mg P/g MLSS for acetate with a P release-to-carbon uptake (P:C) ratio of 0.35-0.66 mol P/mol C, 9.4-18.5 mg P/g MLSS for propionate with a P:C ratio of 0.38-0.60, and 9.5-17.3 mg P/g MLSS for n-butyrate), followed by some carboxylic acids (10.1-18.1 mg P/g MLSS for pyruvate, 4.5-11.7 mg P/g MLSS for lactate and 3.7-12.4 mg P/g MLSS for fumarate) and amino acids (3.66-7.33 mg P/g MLSS for glutamate with a P:C ratio of 0.16-0.43 mol P/mol C, and 4.01-7.37 mg P/g MLSS for aspartate with a P:C ratio of 0.17-0.48 mol P/mol C). P-release profiles (induced by different carbon sources) correlated closely with PAO community composition. High micro-diversity was observed within the Ca. Accumulibacter lineage, which represented the most abundant PAOs. The total population of Ca. Accumulibacter taxa was highly correlated with P-release induced by VFAs, highlighting the latter's importance in tropical EBPR systems. There was a strong link between the relative abundance of individual Ca. Accumulibacter OTUs and the extent of P release induced by distinct carbon sources (e.g., OTU 81 and amino acids, and OTU 246 and ethanol), suggesting niche differentiation among Ca. Accumulibacter taxa. A diverse PAO community and the ability to use numerous organic compounds are considered key factors for stable EBPR in full-scale plants at elevated temperatures.
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- Guanglei Qiu
- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637551, Singapore.
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637551, Singapore; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637551, Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637551, Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637551, Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 119077, Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637551, Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637551, Singapore; Centre for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, DK-9220, Denmark
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 119077, Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637551, Singapore; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA; School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore.
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Marques R, Ribera-Guardia A, Santos J, Carvalho G, Reis MAM, Pijuan M, Oehmen A. Denitrifying capabilities of Tetrasphaera and their contribution towards nitrous oxide production in enhanced biological phosphorus removal processes. WATER RESEARCH 2018; 137:262-272. [PMID: 29550729 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2018.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2017] [Revised: 01/31/2018] [Accepted: 03/05/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Denitrifying enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) systems can be an efficient means of removing phosphate (P) and nitrate (NO3-) with low carbon source and oxygen requirements. Tetrasphaera is one of the most abundant polyphosphate accumulating organisms present in EBPR systems, but their capacity to achieve denitrifying EBPR has not previously been determined. An enriched Tetrasphaera culture, comprising over 80% of the bacterial biovolume was obtained in this work. Despite the denitrification capacity of Tetrasphaera, this culture achieved only low levels of anoxic P-uptake. Batch tests with different combinations of NO3-, nitrite (NO2-) and nitrous oxide (N2O) revealed lower N2O accumulation by Tetrasphaera as compared to Accumulibacter and Competibacter when multiple electron acceptors were added. Electron competition was observed during the addition of multiple nitrogen electron acceptors species, where P uptake appeared to be slightly favoured over glycogen production in these situations. This study increases our understanding of the role of Tetrasphaera-related organisms in denitrifying EBPR systems.
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- Ricardo Marques
- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- ICRA, Institut Català de Recerca de L'Aigua, Parc Científic I Tecnològic de La Universitat de Girona, 17003 Girona, Spain
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- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- ICRA, Institut Català de Recerca de L'Aigua, Parc Científic I Tecnològic de La Universitat de Girona, 17003 Girona, Spain
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- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
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McIlroy SJ, Onetto CA, McIlroy B, Herbst FA, Dueholm MS, Kirkegaard RH, Fernando E, Karst SM, Nierychlo M, Kristensen JM, Eales KL, Grbin PR, Wimmer R, Nielsen PH. Genomic and in Situ Analyses Reveal the Micropruina spp. as Abundant Fermentative Glycogen Accumulating Organisms in Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Systems. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:1004. [PMID: 29875741 PMCID: PMC5974061 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2017] [Accepted: 04/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) involves the cycling of biomass through carbon-rich (feast) and carbon-deficient (famine) conditions, promoting the activity of polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs). However, several alternate metabolic strategies, without polyphosphate storage, are possessed by other organisms, which can compete with the PAO for carbon at the potential expense of EBPR efficiency. The most studied are the glycogen accumulating organisms (GAOs), which utilize aerobically stored glycogen to energize anaerobic substrate uptake and storage. In full-scale systems the Micropruina spp. are among the most abundant of the proposed GAO, yet little is known about their ecophysiology. In the current study, genomic and metabolomic studies were performed on Micropruina glycogenica str. Lg2T and compared to the in situ physiology of members of the genus in EBPR plants using state-of-the-art single cell techniques. The Micropruina spp. were observed to take up carbon, including sugars and amino acids, under anaerobic conditions, which were partly fermented to lactic acid, acetate, propionate, and ethanol, and partly stored as glycogen for potential aerobic use. Fermentation was not directly demonstrated for the abundant members of the genus in situ, but was strongly supported by the confirmation of anaerobic uptake of carbon and glycogen storage in the absence of detectable polyhydroxyalkanoates or polyphosphate reserves. This physiology is markedly different from the classical GAO model. The amount of carbon stored by fermentative organisms has potentially important implications for phosphorus removal – as they compete for substrates with the Tetrasphaera PAO and stored carbon is not made available to the “Candidatus Accumulibacter” PAO under anaerobic conditions. This study shows that the current models of the competition between PAO and GAO are too simplistic and may need to be revised to take into account the impact of potential carbon storage by fermentative organisms.
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- Simon J McIlroy
- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- School of Agriculture, Food, and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- School of Agriculture, Food, and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food, and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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Marques R, Santos J, Nguyen H, Carvalho G, Noronha JP, Nielsen PH, Reis MAM, Oehmen A. Metabolism and ecological niche of Tetrasphaera and Ca. Accumulibacter in enhanced biological phosphorus removal. WATER RESEARCH 2017; 122:159-171. [PMID: 28599161 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2017.04.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2017] [Revised: 04/27/2017] [Accepted: 04/29/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Tetrasphaera and Candidatus Accumulibacter are two abundant polyphosphate accumulating organisms in full-scale enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) systems. However, little is known about the metabolic behaviour and ecological niche that each organism exhibits in mixed communities. In this study, an enriched culture of Tetrasphaera and Ca. Accumulibacter was obtained using casein hydrolysate as sole carbon source. This culture was able to achieve a high phosphorus removal efficiency (>99%), storing polyphosphate while consuming amino acids anaerobically. Microautoradiography and fluorescence in situ hybridisation confirmed that more than 90% Tetrasphaera cells were responsible for amino acid consumption while Ca. Accumulibacter likely survived on fermentation products. Tetrasphaera performed the majority of the P removal (approximately 80%) in this culture, and batch tests showed that the metabolism of some carbon sources could actually lead to anaerobic orthophosphate (Pi) uptake (9.0 ± 2.1 mg-P/L) through energy generated by fermentation of glucose and amino acids. This anaerobic Pi uptake may lead to lower net Pi release to C uptake ratios and reduce the Pi needed to be removed aerobically in WWTPs. Intracellular metabolites such as amino acids, sugars, volatile fatty acids and small amines were observed as potential storage products, which may serve as energy sources in the aerobic phase. Evidence of the urea cycle was found, which could be involved in reducing the intracellular nitrogen content. This study improves our understanding of how phosphorus is removed in EBPR systems and can enable novel process optimisation strategies.
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- Ricardo Marques
- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Denmark
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- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- LAQV, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Denmark
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- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
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Stokholm-Bjerregaard M, McIlroy SJ, Nierychlo M, Karst SM, Albertsen M, Nielsen PH. A Critical Assessment of the Microorganisms Proposed to be Important to Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal in Full-Scale Wastewater Treatment Systems. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:718. [PMID: 28496434 PMCID: PMC5406452 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2016] [Accepted: 04/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Understanding the microbiology of phosphorus (P) removal is considered essential to knowledge-based optimization of enhanced biological P removal (EBPR) systems. Biological P removal is achieved in these systems by promoting the growth of organisms collectively known as the polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs). Also considered important to EBPR are the glycogen accumulating organisms (GAOs), which are theorized to compete with the PAOs for resources at the expense of P removal efficiency. Numerous studies have sought to identify the PAOs and their GAOs competitors, with several candidates proposed for each over the last few decades. The current study collectively assessed the abundance and diversity of all proposed PAOs and GAOs in 18 Danish full-scale wastewater treatment plants with well-working biological nutrient removal over a period of 9 years using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. The microbial community structure in all plants was relatively stable over time. Evidence for the role of the proposed PAOs and GAOs in EBPR varies and is critically assessed, in light of their calculated amplicon abundances, to indicate which of these are important in full-scale systems. Bacteria from the genus Tetrasphaera were the most abundant of the PAOs. The “Candidatus Accumulibacter” PAOs were in much lower abundance and appear to be biased by the amplicon-based method applied. The genera Dechloromonas, Microlunatus, and Tessaracoccus were identified as abundant putative PAO that require further research attention. Interestingly, the actinobacterial Micropruina and sbr-gs28 phylotypes were among the most abundant of the putative GAOs. Members of the genera Defluviicoccus, Propionivibrio, the family Competibacteraceae, and the spb280 group were also relatively abundant in some plants. Despite observed high abundances of GAOs (periodically exceeding 20% of the amplicon reads), P removal performance was maintained, indicating that these organisms were not outcompeting the PAOs in these EBPR systems. Phylogenetic diversity within each of the PAOs and GAOs genera was observed, which is consistent with reported metabolic diversity for these. Whether or not key traits can be assigned to sub-genus level clades requires further investigation.
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- Mikkel Stokholm-Bjerregaard
- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg UniversityAalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg UniversityAalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg UniversityAalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg UniversityAalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg UniversityAalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg UniversityAalborg, Denmark
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Cokro AA, Law Y, Williams RBH, Cao Y, Nielsen PH, Wuertz S. Non-denitrifying polyphosphate accumulating organisms obviate requirement for anaerobic condition. WATER RESEARCH 2017; 111:393-403. [PMID: 28110143 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2017.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2016] [Revised: 01/01/2017] [Accepted: 01/02/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) is a widely used process in wastewater treatment that requires anaerobic/aerobic or anaerobic/anoxic cycling. Surprisingly, phosphorus (P) release was observed in the presence of nitrate in the anoxic compartment of the activated sludge tank in a full-scale treatment plant with the Modified Ludzack Ettinger configuration. We therefore studied the potential of this full-scale activated sludge community to perform EBPR under anoxic/aerobic cycling. The polyphosphate accumulating organism (PAO) Candidatus Accumulibacter represented 3.3% of total bacteria based on 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, and metagenome analysis suggested it was likely to be dominated by Clade IIC. Using acetate as the carbon source in batch experiments, active denitrifying organisms (DPAOs) were estimated to comprise 39-44% of the total PAO population in the sludge, with the remaining 56-61% unable to utilize nitrate. When propionate was provided as the organic carbon source, 95% of the PAO population was unable to denitrify. EBPR occurred under defined anoxic/aerobic conditions, despite the presence of DPAOs, when synthetic wastewater was supplemented with either acetate or propionate or when primary effluent was supplied. In addition, the P release and subsequent uptake rates under anoxic/aerobic conditions were comparable to those observed under anaerobic/aerobic conditions. In contrast, a significant reduction in P release rate was observed when acetate was provided under oxic conditions. We postulate that non-DPAOs that recognize the anoxic condition as pseudo-anaerobic were the key players in anoxic/aerobic EBPR.
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- A Anisa Cokro
- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637551, Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637551, Singapore.
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077, Singapore
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- Public Utilities Board, 40 Scotts Road, Environment Building, Singapore 228231, Singapore
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637551, Singapore; Centre for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, DK-9220, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637551, Singapore; School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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Albertsen M, McIlroy SJ, Stokholm-Bjerregaard M, Karst SM, Nielsen PH. "Candidatus Propionivibrio aalborgensis": A Novel Glycogen Accumulating Organism Abundant in Full-Scale Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Plants. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:1033. [PMID: 27458436 PMCID: PMC4930944 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2016] [Accepted: 06/20/2016] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) is widely used to remove phosphorus from wastewater. The process relies on polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) that are able to take up phosphorus in excess of what is needed for growth, whereby phosphorus can be removed from the wastewater by wasting the biomass. However, glycogen accumulating organisms (GAOs) may reduce the EBPR efficiency as they compete for substrates with PAOs, but do not store excessive amounts of polyphosphate. PAOs and GAOs are thought to be phylogenetically unrelated, with the model PAO being the betaproteobacterial “Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis” (Accumulibacter) and the model GAO being the gammaproteobacterial “Candidatus Competibacter phosphatis”. Here, we report the discovery of a GAO from the genus Propionivibrio, which is closely related to Accumulibacter. Propionivibrio sp. are targeted by the canonical fluorescence in situ hybridization probes used to target Accumulibacter (PAOmix), but do not store excessive amounts of polyphosphate in situ. A laboratory scale reactor, operated to enrich for PAOs, surprisingly contained co-dominant populations of Propionivibrio and Accumulibacter. Metagenomic sequencing of multiple time-points enabled recovery of near complete population genomes from both genera. Annotation of the Propionivibrio genome confirmed their potential for the GAO phenotype and a basic metabolic model is proposed for their metabolism in the EBPR environment. Using newly designed fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) probes, analyses of full-scale EBPR plants revealed that Propionivibrio is a common member of the community, constituting up to 3% of the biovolume. To avoid overestimation of Accumulibacter abundance in situ, we recommend the use of the FISH probe PAO651 instead of the commonly applied PAOmix probe set.
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- Mads Albertsen
- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg UniversityAalborg, Denmark; Krüger A/SAalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University Aalborg, Denmark
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