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- Title
Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal and Recovery.
- Authors
Machnicka, Alicja; Grübel, Klaudiusz; Suschka, Jan
- Abstract
Activated sludge systems designed for enhanced nutrient removal are based on the principle of altering anaerobic and aerobic conditions for growth of microorganisms with a high capacity of phosphorus accumulation. Most often, lilamentous bacteria constitute a component of the activated sludge microflora. The filamentous microorganism are responsible for foam formation and activated sludge bulking. The results obtained confirm unanimously that the filamentous bacteria have the ability of phosphorus uptake and accumulation as polyphosphates. Hydrodynamic disintegration of the foam microorganisms results in the transfer of phosphorus and metal cations and ammonium-nitrogen into the liquid phase. It was demonstrated that the disintegration of foam permits the removal of a portion of the nutrients in the form of struvite.
- Subjects
FOAM; MOLDS (Fungi); FUNGI; PHOSPHORUS; DISINTEGRATION of microorganisms; MICROBIOLOGICAL techniques
- Publication
Water Environment Research (10614303), 2008, Vol 80, Issue 7, p617
- ISSN
1061-4303
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2175/106143008X268461