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A Novel Bioreactor for High Density Cultivation of Diverse Microbial Communities
Published on: December 25, 2015
Enhanced nitrogen removal in mainstream deammonification systems at ambient temperature by novel modified carriers
Yuqi Li1, Hong Liang2, Wenbo Yang2
1State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, Heilongjiang, China.
Abstract:
Zeolite-modified polyurethane (ZP) carriers and zeolite/tourmaline-modified polyurethane (ZTP) carriers were proposed to enhance mainstream deammonification. The system with ZTP carriers was rapidly established in 28 days with a nitrogen removal rate (NRR) of 0.150 kg N·(m3·d)-1. Moreover, the facilitative effect of tourmaline was suggested by the highest humic acid peak intensity and more balanced potential activity. Besides, SEM-EDS analysis revealed carrier characteristic improvement was achieved in both novel carriers while maintaining an excellent spatial structure. Moreover, the microbial analysis suggested that both modified carriers support the substrate supply to anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria (AnAOB) by enhancing dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium and partial denitrification under nitrate accumulation conditions. Nevertheless, the ZTP system had a greater advantage over maintaining the original AnAOB (Candidatus Jettenia) and ammonium oxidizing bacteria (Nitrosomonas) abundance. Overall, this study provides ZTP carriers with great potential for facilitating the establishment of mainstream deammonification at full-scale WWTPs.
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