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- Title
Single-stage autotrophic nitrogen removal process at high loading rate: granular reactor performance, kinetics, and microbial characterization.
- Authors
Qian, Feiyue; Gebreyesus, Abebe Temesgen; Wang, Jianfang; Shen, Yaoliang; Liu, Wenru; Xie, Lulin
- Abstract
For the possible highest performance of single-stage combined partial nitritation/anammox (PNA) process, a continuous complete-mix granular reactor was operated at progressively higher nitrogen loading rate. The variations in bacterial community structure of granules were also characterized using high-throughput pyrosequencing, to give a detail insight to the relationship between reactor performance and functional organism abundance within completely autotrophic nitrogen removal system. In 172 days of operation, a superior total nitrogen (TN) removal rate over 3.9 kg N/(m3/day) was stable implemented at a fixed dissolved oxygen concentration of 1.9 mg/L, corresponding to the maximum specific substrate utilization rate of 0.36/day for TN based on the related kinetics modeling. Pyrosequencing results revealed that the genus <italic>Nitrosomonas</italic> responsible for aerobic ammonium oxidation was dominated on the granule surface, which was essential to offer the required niche for the selective enrichment of anammox bacteria (genus <italic>Candidatus</italic> Kuenenia) in the inner layer. And the present of various heterotrophic organisms with general functions, known as fermentation and denitrification, could not be overlooked. In addition, it was believed that an adequate excess of ammonium in the bulk liquid played a key role in maintaining process stability, by suppressing the growth of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria through dual-substrate competitions.
- Subjects
NITROGEN removal (Sewage purification); DISSOLVED oxygen in water; PYROSEQUENCING; NITROSOMONAS; OXIDIZING agents
- Publication
Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology, 2018, Vol 102, Issue 5, p2379
- ISSN
0175-7598
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00253-018-8768-0