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Baokun Xu1, Liangsheng Shi1, Hua Zhong1
1State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China.
Abstract:
The effect of temperature on pyrite-based autotrophic denitrification performance and conversion between N species under natural conditions was investigated by using dynamic-flow column experiment. Phosphate and bicarbonate were added trying to enhance denitrification performance when the temperature decreased to 20 °C. However, the temperature had a much more sensitive influence on the denitrification process than substances addition. NO3--N removal efficiency decreased with the decrease of temperature. When the temperature was higher than 20 °C, the NO2--N reduction process was more sensitive to the temperature drop, while the process of NO3--N to NO2--N was more sensitive to temperature drop when the temperature was lower than 20 °C. The different influence of temperature drop on the two processes led to changes of the distribution of NO3--N, NO2--N, and SO42--S along the column. However, the electron contribution of pyrite among the electron donors only changed slightly.
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