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Enhancement of anammox bacterial activity by sodium glutamate
Xianglong Xu1, Guo-Hua Liu1, Dongmei Zhao1
1Low Carbon Water Environmental Technology Research Center, School of Environment & Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China.
Abstract:
In this paper, the enhancement of sodium glutamate (SG) on activity of anaerobic ammonia oxidizing (anammox) bacteria was investigated by batch tests. The results illustrated that SG played an important role in enhancing anammox bacterial activity when the SG dosage ranged from 0.50 to 1.25 mM, and the optimal SG concentration was 1.00 mM. The performance of anammox was the best and the total nitrogen removal rate (TNRR) was 138.2 mg N g-1·VSS·d-1 when the concentration of SG was 1.00 mM. The results of EPS and anammox bacterial biomass measurement indicated that protein (PN), polysaccharide (PS), total EPS and the bacterial abundance reached the maximum of 1.00 mM SG addition. Compared to the control tests, the EPS content and bacterial abundance increased by 38.2% and 75.8%, respectively. In addition, the cloning results showed that the community structure of anammox bacteria evolved in species level of Candidatus Brocadia genus under the condition of SG enhancement.
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