Single‐stage partial nitration and anammox (PN/A) process was achieved in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) using a submerged dynamic membrane (DM) in this study. The reactor was stably operated for 200 days, and the nitrogen removal efficiency (NRE) was sustained at 70.3 ± 7.2% at a nitrogen loading rate (NLR) ranging from 0.1 to 0.3 kgNm−3 day−1 with a hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 24 hr. When the NLR was 0.2 kgN m−3day−1, the NRE achieved was high as 80% with a low concentration of dissolved oxygen (DO) of 0.13 mg/L. In addition, the specific activity of anammox bacteria and ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria (AOB) reached was 2.72 and 16.80 gN gVSS−1day−1, respectively. The DM intercepted the biomass due to the lamellar, intact, dense biofilm self‐generated on the surface of the supporting material, which had an effluent turbidity of 10 NTU. The enriched anammox functional bacteria were Candidatus Jettenia (11.06%) and the AOB‐like functional bacteria consisted primarily of Nitrosomonas, with a relative abundance of 2.76%, which ensured the PN/A process proceeding. This study provides a novel reactor configuration of the single‐stage PN/A process in the view of practical applications.
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Single‐stage partial nitration and anammox (PN/A) process was achieved using a submerged dynamic membrane (DM) in this study.
The reactor was stably operated for 200 days, and the nitrogen removal efficiency was sustained at 70.3 ± 7.2%.
The feasibility of the PN/A system with DM is evaluated.
The main objective is to provide a control strategy of the DM‐SBRs for practical applications.
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