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A Novel Bioreactor for High Density Cultivation of Diverse Microbial Communities
Published on: December 25, 2015
Microbial interactions play a keystone role in rapid anaerobic ammonium oxidation sludge proliferation and biofilm
Jinli Zheng1, Qi Zhang1, Yi Ding1
1College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Abstract:
Two mature anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) consortia with high/low relative abundance of anammox bacteria were inoculated for the rapid sludge proliferation and biofilm formation in this study, named up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor (UASB1) (high) and UASB2 (low), respectively. Results showed that the nitrogen removal efficiency of UASB2 reached 90.94% after the 120-day operation, which was 13% higher than that of UASB1. Moreover, its biomass amounts were 22.18% (biofilm) and 40.96% (flocs) higher than that of UASB1, respectively. Ca. Kuenenia possessed relative abundances of 29.32% (flocs), 27.42% (biofilm) and 31.56% (flocs), 35.20% (biofilm) in the UASB1 and UASB2, respectively. The relative abundances of genes involved in anammox transformation (hzs, nir) and carbon metabolism (fdh, lgA/B/C, acs) were higher in the UASB2, indicating that Ca. Kuenenia might produce acetate and glycogen to enhance microbial interactions. These findings emphasized the importance of microbial interactions in anammox sludge proliferation and biofilm formation.
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