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Published on: November 6, 2016
Effects of carbon-nitrogen ratio on nitrogen removal in a sequencing batch reactor enhanced with low-intensity
Ruofei Jin1, Guangfei Liu, Chunling Li
1Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Ministry of Education, School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Linggong Road 2, Dalian 116024, China.
Abstract:
A sequencing batch reactor (SBR) enhanced with low-intensity ultrasound was designed to study the removal of nitrogen under different carbon-nitrogen (C/N) ratios. The results showed that the removal efficiencies of CODCr and nitrogen were inversely proportional to C/N ratios. The CODCr of the effluent in the control reactor (CR) and the low-intensity ultrasound-enhanced reactor (UER) were lower than 40 mg L(-1). With a decrease in C/N ratio, the NH4(+)-N removal load of the CR showed little change, while the NH4(+)-N removal load of UER increased from 21.2 to 56.1mg NH4(+)-N/g mixed liquid suspended solids per day. To further understand effects of low-intensity ultrasound, the denaturing gel gradient electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis showed that the similar coefficients of the community structures in the UER and CR were 86%, 52% and 29% when the C/N ratios were 15:1, 10:1, 5:1, respectively.
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