Study on the diffusion coefficients for ammonia nitrogen and nitrite and nitrate in PVA gels

The impact of temperature and dissolved oxygen (DO) on the partial nitrification of immobilized fillers, and application in municipal wastewater

The immobilized filler realized the partial nitrification of municipal wastewater at low and normal temperatures.

Analysis of rapid culture of high-efficiency nitrifying bacteria and immobilized filler application for the treatment of municipal wastewater

Activated sludge from the A²/O process in a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) was used as the seed sludge for enrichment to achieve faster growth of nitrifying bacteria and higher nitrification efficiency of the filler made by nitrifying bacteria. The bacterial community was enriched in a self-circulating bacteria culture tank by a continuous ammonia feeding mode. The study found that the nitrifying bacteria community was enriched in 38 days with the ammonia oxidation rate of approximately 275.58 mg (L h)⁻¹. High-throughput sequencing demonstrated that Nitrosomonas belonging to ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) was predominant in the sludge after 38 days at a ratio extending from 0.43% to 61.91%. The enriched sludge was used as the bacterial source and the immobilization was carried out with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA). After the recovery culture, the ammonia oxidation rate of the filler was up to 44.61 mg (L h)⁻¹ for the treatment of municipal wastewater, and the effluent ammonia was below 1 mg L⁻¹, indicating that the immobilized filler is effective for municipal wastewater nitrification. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) observations showed that immobilized fillers were highly porous and bacteria adhered to the network structure, demonstrating that the filler provided a good growth microenvironment for microorganisms.

This research proposed an improved method to solve the nitrification problem.