Gel-immobilized partial nitritation/anammox achieves reliable nitrogen removal at different concentrations of
XiaoTong Wang1, Hong Yang1, JiaWei Wang2
1Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environmental Recovery Engineering, College of Architectural Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
Abstract:
A two-stage partial nitritation/anammox process based on microbial encapsulation (PN/A-E) was established. The nitrogen removal characteristics of PN/A-E under high and low ammonia nitrogen and after reactivation following a long-term shutdown were comprehensively investigated and compared with anammox granular sludge (AnGS). The stable PN process did not depend on high ammonia nitrogen, and the nitrite accumulation rate reached 95.2 ± 0.7 %. The overall nitrogen removal rate of encapsulated anammox bacteria was twice that of the AnGS, and it was more tolerant to external interference. Moreover, PN/A-E showed good reactivation performance, and the total nitrogen in the effluent was 10.0 ± 1.4 mg·L-1 when the final hydraulic retention time was 2.18 h. The immobilized fillers support an increase in ammonia-oxidizing bacteria under restricted conditions and were more conducive to the dominance of functional bacteria and the stability of microbial community under low ammonia nitrogen. This study provides a positive method to achieve a reliable PN/A.
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