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Proano CA, Liu R, Xu X, Meisler S, Hassanein A, Lansing S, Tian K, Li G. Impacts of free nitrous acid on stabilizing food waste and sewage sludge for anaerobic digestion. Bioresour Technol 2024; 402:130819. [PMID: 38723728 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2024.130819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2023] [Revised: 04/29/2024] [Accepted: 05/07/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024]
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This work investigated the effectiveness of free nitrous acid (FNA) in enhancing organic waste solubilization to improve biogas production in anaerobic digestion (AD). The results indicated that FNA pretreatment can enhance soluble organic content and control H2S odor in tested organic wastes, including food waste, sewage sludge, and their combination. However, a significant decrease (>50 %) in FNA concentration was found in the reactors, possibly due to denitrifier-driven NO2- consumption. Biochemical methane potential (BMP) tests showed a 25 ± 8 % enhancement in CH4 production in the reactors fed with mixed substrate pretreated with 2.9 mg FNA-N/L. However, the presence of NO2- (325.6-2368.0 mg N/L) in some BMP reactors, due to carryover from FNA pretreatment, adversely affected CH4 production (>55 %) and prolonged lag time (>4.2 times). These findings are valuable for researchers and practitioners in waste management, offering insights for implementing FNA pretreatment to enhance the biodegradability of organic wastes in AD.
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- Camila A Proano
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, 4298 Campus Dr., College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, 4298 Campus Dr., College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 200 Patton Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, 4298 Campus Dr., College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science & Technology, University of Maryland, 1429 Animal Sciences/Ag. Eng. Bldg, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science & Technology, University of Maryland, 1429 Animal Sciences/Ag. Eng. Bldg, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, 4298 Campus Dr., College Park, MD 20742, USA.
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Li B, Mao S, Zhang C, Xu T, Ma X, Lin H, Yin H, Qiu Y. Rapid anaerobic culture and reaction kinetic study of anammox bacteria on microfluidic chip. Bioresour Technol 2024; 396:130422. [PMID: 38320714 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2024.130422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2023] [Revised: 02/02/2024] [Accepted: 02/03/2024] [Indexed: 02/15/2024]
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Anammox bacteria are being increasingly investigated as part of an emerging nitrogen removal technology. However, due to the difficulty in culturing, current understanding of their behavior is limited. In this study, anaerobic microfluidic chips were used to study anammox bacteria, showing great advantages over reactors. On-chip fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) showed the relative abundance of free form anammox bacteria increased by 56.1 % after one week's culture, an increase that is three times higher than that of bioreactor (17.1 %). For granular form cultures, the nitrogen removal load reached 2.34 ∼ 2.51 kg-N/(m3·d), which was also substantially higher than the bioreactor (∼1.22 kg-N/(m3·d)). Furthermore, studying the kinetics of nitrite inhibition of granular sludge with different particle sizes (100-900 μm) showed that the maximum ammonia load and the nitrite semi-saturation coefficient noticeably decreased for smaller particle sizes. These results illustrate the usefulness of the microfluidic method for in-depth understanding anammox process and its implementation.
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- Bing Li
- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8LT, UK.
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- School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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Ma C, Zeng W, Li J, Li S, Peng Y. Metabolomics uncovers adaptation discrepancy among anammox granular sludge with different granule size: Metabolic pathway regulation by consortia cooperation. Sci Total Environ 2023; 864:161086. [PMID: 36566861 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2022] [Revised: 12/15/2022] [Accepted: 12/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The relationship between granular size and anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) performance in the anammox granular sludge (AnGS) system has been extensively observed. However, the metabolic pathways regulated by communication and cross-feedings among anammox consortia remain unclear. The reactor operation and metabolomics analyses were combined to explore the influence of microbiota cooperation on metabolic pathways and granule properties under low temperature (18 °C) and nitrite inhibition. Anammox activity was sustained under challenging circumstances by active quorum sensing among anammox consortia in AnGS with diameters larger than 1.4 mm, which promoted nucleotide metabolism. Cross-feedings among anammox consortia increased the levels of molybdopterin cofactor and folate meanwhile decreasing the cost of carbon fixation metabolism, which supported anabolism and maintained the content of heme c and extracellular polymeric substance. These metabolic insights into the AnGS system provide a new view for anammox process overcoming the low temperature and nitrite stress.
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- Chenyang Ma
- 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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Aparicio S, Robles Á, Ferrer J, Seco A, Borrás Falomir L. Assessing and modeling nitrite inhibition in microalgae-bacteria consortia for wastewater treatment by means of photo-respirometric and chlorophyll fluorescence techniques. Sci Total Environ 2022; 808:152128. [PMID: 34863736 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2021] [Revised: 11/23/2021] [Accepted: 11/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Total nitrite (TNO2 = HNO2 + NO-2) accumulation due to the activity of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) was monitored in microalgae-bacteria consortia, and the inhibitory effect of nitrite/free nitrous acid (NO2-N/FNA) on microalgae photosynthesis and inhibition mechanism was studied. A culture of Scenedesmus was used to run two sets of batch reactors at different pH and TNO2 concentrations to evaluate the toxic potential of NO2-N and FNA. Photo-respirometric tests showed that NO2-N accumulation has a negative impact on net oxygen production rate (OPRNET). Chlorophyll a fluorescence analysis was used to examine the biochemical effects of NO2-N stress and the mechanism of NO2-N inhibition. The electron transport rate (ETR), non-photochemical quenching (NPQ), and JIP-test revealed that the electron transport chain between Photosystems II and I (PS II and PS I) was hindered at NO2-N concentrations above 25 g N m-3. Electron acceptor QA was not able to reoxidize and could not transfer electrons to the next electron acceptor, QB, accumulating P680+ (excited PS II reaction center) and limiting oxygen production. A semi-continuous reactor containing a Scenedesmus culture was monitored by photo-respirometry tests and Chlorophyll a fluorescence to calibrate NO2-N inhibition (5-35 g N m-3). Non-competitive inhibition and Hill-type models were compared to select the best-fitting inhibition equations. Inhibition was correctly modeled by the Hill-type model and a half inhibition constant (KI) for OPRNET, NPQ, maximum photosynthetic rate (ETRMAX) and the performance index PIABS was 23.7 ± 1.2, 26.36 ± 1.10, 39 ± 2 and 26.5 ± 0.4, respectively.
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- Stéphanie Aparicio
- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100 Burjassot, València, Spain.
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100 Burjassot, València, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022, València, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100 Burjassot, València, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100 Burjassot, València, Spain
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Yin J, Hunt KA, Xie T, Quoc BN, Tran K, Stahl DA, Winkler MKH. Pairing denitrifying phosphorus accumulating organisms with anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria for simultaneous N and P removal. Sci Total Environ 2021; 787:147521. [PMID: 33991918 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Revised: 04/17/2021] [Accepted: 04/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Coupling of denitrifying polyphosphate accumulating organisms (DPAO) with anaerobic ammonium oxidizing (Anammox) bacteria in a single treatment scheme has so far been unsuccessful but could offer substantial energy savings, minimize sludge production, while achieving simultaneous carbon, nitrogen and phosphate removal. However, both organisms compete for nitrite and have vastly different growth rates and therefore the goal of this study was to uncouple their solid retention time (SRT) by growing them in different sludge fractions and to determine their biomass specific kinetic properties. Anammox bacteria were grown in a biofilm for longer SRTs and DPAO in flocs to allow shorter SRTs. Exposure of DPAO to anaerobic conditions was accomplished by recycling the flocs to a separate reactor by which simultaneous P, N, and C removal was accomplished. The diffusion limited biofilm lowered the biomass specific nitrite affinity for Anammox (KsAMX = 0.091 mM), which gave DPAO a competitive edge to consume nitrite (KsDPAO = 0.022 mM) in the suspended floc fraction. However, DPAO are more sensitive to nitrite (KiDPAO = 0.377 mM) than Anammox bacteria and (KiAMX > 1.786 mM), and therefore the DPAO would be better suited to grow in the protective biofilm, showing that both biomass growth types (flocs and granules) have advantages (and disadvantages) depending on the setting. This work is an important steppingstone to understanding resource competition amongst Anammox and DPAO and SRT management strategies to allow their pairing in combined reactor configurations.
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- Jun Yin
- University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, 616 Northlake Place, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Zhejiang Gongshang University, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hangzhou 310012, PR China
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- University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, 616 Northlake Place, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, 616 Northlake Place, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Guangxi University for Nationalities, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanning 530006, PR China
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- University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, 616 Northlake Place, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, 616 Northlake Place, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, 616 Northlake Place, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, 616 Northlake Place, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
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Xu J, Li C, Zhu N, Shen Y, Yuan H. Alleviating the nitrite stress on anaerobic ammonium oxidation by pyrolytic biochar. Sci Total Environ 2021; 774:145800. [PMID: 33610985 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2020] [Revised: 01/22/2021] [Accepted: 02/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The nitrite (NO2-) inhibition in anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) process is widely reported. Here, the effects of three pyrolytic biochars (CS300, CS550 and CS800) were investigated to alleviate NO2- stress on anammox process under exposure of varied NO2--N concentrations (70, 200, 400 and 600 mg L-1). No nitrite inhibition was observed at 70 mg N L-1. However, the total nitrogen removal efficiency (TNREs) decreased with NO2--N concentration increased, while the biochar-amended groups achieved higher TNREs than the control (CK). At 200 mg N L-1, the TNREs were 60.2%, 99.0%, 98.5% and 86.6% for CK, CS300, CS550 and CS800, respectively. At 400 mg N L-1, the TNREs were 23.3%, 56.0%, 37.1% and 29.7% for CK, CS300, CS550 and CS800, respectively. At 600 mg N L-1 in which severe inhibition was observed, the TNREs were increased by 231% (p = 0.002), 149% (p = 0.014), and 51.0% (p = 0.166) for CS300, CS550 and CS800, respectively, as compared to CK, with the corresponding specific anammox activity increased by 3.1-, 2,0- and 1.1-folds, respectively. CS300 enriched the relative abundance of Candidatus Kuenenia and increased the gene copies of functional genes (hzsA, hdh, nirS and nirK). Besides, CS300 effectively alleviated the suppression of three membrane-associated enzyme complexes for anammox electron transport chain, indicating the possible contribution of redox-active moieties of CS300 to energy conversion metabolism for mitigating the NO2--N inhibition. This study provided an effective strategy for alleviating NO2--N stress by applying an environmentally compatible material (biochar) on anammox process.
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- Jiajia Xu
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Hunan BISEN Environmental & Energy Co. Ltd., Changsha 410100, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China; Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China; Hunan BISEN Environmental & Energy Co. Ltd., Changsha 410100, China.
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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Albina P, Durban N, Bertron A, Albrecht A, Robinet JC, Erable B. Nitrate and nitrite bacterial reduction at alkaline pH and high nitrate concentrations, comparison of acetate versus dihydrogen as electron donors. J Environ Manage 2021; 280:111859. [PMID: 33352382 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2020] [Revised: 12/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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This study assesses bacterial denitrification at alkaline pH, up to 12, and high nitrate concentration, up to 400 mM. Two types of electron donors organic (acetate) and inorganic (dihydrogen) were compared. With both types of electron donors, nitrite reduction was the key step, likely to increase the pH and lead to nitrite accumulation. Firstly, an acclimation process was used: nitrate was progressively increased in three cultures set at pH 9, 10, or 11. This method allowed to observe for the first time nitrate reduction up to pH 10 and 100 mM nitrate with dihydrogen, or up to pH 10 and 400 mM nitrate with acetate. Nitrate reduction kinetics were faster in the presence of acetate. To investigate further the impact of the type of electron donor, a transition from acetate to dihydrogen was tested, and the pH evolution was modelled. Denitrification with dihydrogen strongly increases the pH while with acetate the pH evolution depends on the initial pH. The main difference is the production of acidifying CO2 during the acetate oxidation. Finally, the use of long duration cultures with a highly alkaline pH allowed a nitrate reduction up to pH 11.5 with acetate. However, no reduction was possible in hydrogenotrophy as it would have increased the pH further. Instead, bacteria used organic matter from inoculum to reduce nitrate at pH 11.5. Therefore, considering bacterial denitrification in a context of alkaline pH and high nitrate concentration an organic electron donor such as acetate is advantageous.
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- Pierre Albina
- LGC, CNRS, INPT, UPS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France; LMDC, INSA/UPS Génie Civil, Université de Toulouse, 135 Avenue de Rangueil, 31077, Toulouse Cedex 04, France.
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- LGC, CNRS, INPT, UPS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France; LMDC, INSA/UPS Génie Civil, Université de Toulouse, 135 Avenue de Rangueil, 31077, Toulouse Cedex 04, France
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- LMDC, INSA/UPS Génie Civil, Université de Toulouse, 135 Avenue de Rangueil, 31077, Toulouse Cedex 04, France
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- Andra, 1-7 rue Jean-Monet, Châtenay-Malabry, 62298, France
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- LGC, CNRS, INPT, UPS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
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Yu H, Wang S, Zuo J, Song Y, Li Y, Zhang Y. In situ elimination of nitrite inhibition on AnAOB by acetate dosing in an up-flow granular anammox reactor. Sci Total Environ 2020; 741:139738. [PMID: 32603948 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Revised: 05/22/2020] [Accepted: 05/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The inhibition of over-accumulated nitrite on anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) activity has been widely reported and intensively studied. Surprisingly, there are limited researches on the strategy to deal with nitrite inhibition. In this work, to eliminate nitrite inhibition in an up-flow granular anammox reactor, acetate dosing (600 mg COD L-1) and simultaneous acetate and denitrifying sludge dosing (600 mg COD L-1 and 1.4 g dry weight L-1) were implemented to temporarily activate microbial denitrification to reduce nitrite, respectively. In two strategies, reactor nitrogen removal and extracellular ATP were resumed to initial levels, while the recovery ratios of intracellular ATP and nitrite removal rate (67.1% and 15.6 mg N h-1) of the former were higher than those (52.5% and 11.2 mg N h-1) of the latter, indicating acetate dosing was more qualified to nitrite removal. Meanwhile, although a decrease of the dominated Ca. Brocadia from 30.7 to 25.8% was not reversed through high-throughput sequencing, acetate dosing did not cause denitrifiers proliferation. As easily implemented acetate dosing was as effective as direct discharge of inhibitory nitrite as the control strategy, it was recommended when nitrite inhibition happened. Additionally, an irregular behavior of nitrate overproduction via nitrite oxidation and the drastic increase of extracellular ATP were detected and proposed as the response of AnAOB to nitrite inhibition.
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- Heng Yu
- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Queiroz SAS, Pinto MEF, Bobey AF, Russo HM, Batista ANL, Batista JM, Codo AC, Medeiros AI, Bolzani VS. Diterpenoids with inhibitory activity of nitrite production from Croton floribundus. J Ethnopharmacol 2020; 249:112320. [PMID: 31639485 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2019.112320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2019] [Revised: 10/16/2019] [Accepted: 10/16/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Croton floribundus Spreng. (Euphorbiaceae), popularly known as Capixinguí, stands out due to its widespread use in traditional medicine to treat wounds, syphilis, hemorrhoids, eye diseases and as a purgative. AIM OF THE STUDY To characterize clerodanes diterpenes from C. floribundus and to evaluate the effects of the fraction and diterpenes (1-5) on inhibition of nitrite production. MATERIALS AND METHODS The hydroethanolic root extract of C. floribundus was fractionated on a solid phase extraction column to obtain the fraction named Fr80%. From this, five compounds were obtained and characterized. The absolute configuration of compound 1 was determined by a combination of electronic and vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopies. Additionally, compounds 1-5 were evaluated for their inhibitory effects on nitrite production induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in RAW 264 macrophage cell. RESULTS Five clerodane diterpenoids were characterized, and the absolute stereochemistry of 1 was established as 3R,4R,5R,8R,9R,10S,12S. The IC50 values obtained through inhibition of nitrite production were 28.52 ± 2.21 μM (1), 40.26 ± 2.79 μM (2), 25.47 ± 2.16 μM (3), 35.78 ± 2.93 μM (4) and 40.58 ± 4.78 μM (5). In the tested concentrations, the samples presented low toxicity in macrophages. CONCLUSIONS Four new diterpenes were characterized from C. floribundus, these being croflorins A-D (1-4) and a known halimane (5). These compounds exhibited inhibitory effect on nitrite production.
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- Institute of Chemistry, Sao Paulo State University, Araraquara, 14800-060, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, Sao Paulo State University, Araraquara, 14800-060, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, Sao Paulo State University, Araraquara, 14800-060, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, Fluminense Federal University, Niteroi, 24020-141, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Institute of Science and Technology, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Jose Dos Campos, 12231-280, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sao Paulo State University, Araraquara, 01049-010, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sao Paulo State University, Araraquara, 01049-010, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, Sao Paulo State University, Araraquara, 14800-060, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Lin L, Pratt S, Rattier M, Ye L. Individual and combined effect of salinity and nitrite on freshwater Anammox bacteria (FAB). Water Res 2020; 169:114931. [PMID: 31669901 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.114931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2019] [Revised: 06/13/2019] [Accepted: 07/29/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (Anammox) based technology has potential for nitrogen removal from wastewater with high salinity, but both salt and nitrite (a substrate for Anammox) have negative effect on microbial activity. In order to achieve Anammox in saline wastewater treatment, it is essential to understand the combined effect of these two components. In this study, the individual and combined effect of salinity and nitrite on fixed film freshwater Anammox bacteria (FAB, mainly belonging to the Ca. Brocadia genus), enriched on carriers from a 1500 L pilot scale one-stage (PN/Anammox) moving bed bioreactor (MBBR), were systematically investigated by 57 pre-designed batch tests. The combined inhibition of nitrite and salinity was determined by comparing with additive and independent inhibition models. With salinity only, the specific Anammox activity (SAA) decreased with increasing salinity: 14.6 mS/cm (about 9.1 g NaCl/L) of salinity caused 50% inhibition (IC50). With nitrite only, SAA started to decrease when nitrite concentration was above 450 mg N/L (threshold) and decreased with increased nitrite (IC50 = 666 mg N/L) thereafter. Significantly, when both salinity and nitrite were elevated, both the threshold and IC50 of nitrite were reduced, with inhibition enhanced. Analysis showed that at high salinity (>14.6 mS/cm) and nitrite concentration (>666 mg N/L), inhibition was close to that predicted by simulation of additive and independent inhibition models. Within a salinity range of 4-14.6 mS/cm and nitrite concentration range of 50-666 mg N/L, the combined inhibition was more severe than prediction (p < 0.05) based on the additive and independent inhibition models and therefore it was determined to be synergistic inhibition.
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- Limin Lin
- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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Li G, Vilcherrez D, Carvajal-Arroyo JM, Sierra-Alvarez R, Field JA. Exogenous nitrate attenuates nitrite toxicity to anaerobic ammonium oxidizing (anammox) bacteria. Chemosphere 2016; 144:2360-2367. [PMID: 26610295 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2015] [Revised: 10/30/2015] [Accepted: 11/04/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
Abstract
Anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria (anammox) can be severely inhibited by one of its main substrates, nitrite (NO2(-)). At present, there is limited information on the processes by which anammox bacteria are able to tolerate toxic NO2(-). Intracellular consumption or electrochemically driven (transmembrane proton motive force) NO2(-) export are considered the main mechanisms of NO2(-) detoxification. In this work, we evaluated the potential of exogenous nitrate (NO3(-)) on relieving NO2(-) toxicity, putatively facilitated by NarK, a NO3(-)/NO2(-) transporter encoded in the anammox genome. The relative contribution of NO3(-) to NO2(-) detoxification was found to be pH dependent. Exposure of anammox cells to NO2(-) in absence of their electron donating substrate, ammonium (NH4(+)), causes NO2(-) stress. At pH 6.7 and 7.0, the activity of NO2(-) stressed cells was respectively 0 and 27% of the non-stressed control activity (NO2(-) and NH4(+) fed simultaneously). Exogenous NO3(-) addition caused the recovery to 42% and 80% of the control activity at pH 6.7 and 7.0, respectively. The recovery of the activity of NO2(-) stressed cells improved with increasing NO3(-) concentration, the maximum recovery being achieved at 0.85 mM. The NO3(-) pre-incubation time is less significant at pH 7.0 than at pH 6.7 due to a more severe NO2(-) toxicity at lower pH. Additionally, NO3(-) caused almost complete attenuation of NO2(-) toxicity in cells exposed to the proton gradient disruptor carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenyl hydrazone at pH 7.5, providing evidence that the NO3(-) attenuation is independent of the proton motive force. The absence of a measurable NO3(-) consumption (or NO3(-) dependent N2 production) during the batch tests leaves NO3(-) dependent active transport of NO2(-) as the only plausible explanation for the relief of NO2(-) inhibition. We suggest that anammox cells can use a secondary transport system facilitated by exogenous NO3(-) to alleviate NO2(-) toxicity.
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Affiliation(s)
- Guangbin Li
- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, 1133 E. James E. Rogers Way, Tucson, AZ 85721-001, USA.
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, 1133 E. James E. Rogers Way, Tucson, AZ 85721-001, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, 1133 E. James E. Rogers Way, Tucson, AZ 85721-001, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, 1133 E. James E. Rogers Way, Tucson, AZ 85721-001, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, 1133 E. James E. Rogers Way, Tucson, AZ 85721-001, USA
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