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Laboratory-determined Phosphorus Flux from Lake Sediments as a Measure of Internal Phosphorus Loading
Published on: March 6, 2014
Recent advances in understanding the ecophysiology of enhanced biological phosphorus removal
Samarpita Roy1, Qiu Guanglei2, Rogelio Zuniga-Montanez3
1Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077, Singapore.
Abstract:
Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) is an efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable method for removing excess phosphorus from wastewater. Polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) exhibit a unique physiology alternating between anaerobic conditions for uptake of carbon substrates and aerobic or anoxic conditions for phosphorus uptake. The implementation of high-throughput sequencing technologies and advanced molecular tools along with biochemical characterization has provided many new perspectives on the EBPR process. These approaches have helped identify a wide range of carbon substrates and electron acceptors utilized by PAOs that in turn influence interactions with microbial community members and determine overall phosphorus removal efficiency. In this review, we systematically discuss the microbial diversity and metabolic response to a range of environmental conditions and process control strategies in EBPR.
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