The Effect of Influent Characteristics and Operational Conditions over the Performance and Microbial Community Structure of Partial Nitritation Reactors

Rodríguez-Sánchez, Alejandro; González‐Martínez, Alejandro; Martı́nez-Toledo, M.V.; García-Ruiz, María Jesús; Osorio, Francisco; González‐López, Jesús

doi:10.3390/w6071905

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“…The oxidation of ammonium could be developed by different species of bacteria such as Nitrosomonas or Comamonas , which have been found regularly in MBR and hybrid MBBR–MBR systems treating regular‐salinity wastewater . Also, Thermomonas can oxidize ammonium and outcompete autotrophic ammonium oxidizing bacteria in certain environments with high

{NO}_{2}^{-}

or O 2 concentrations .…”

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Linkage of microbial kinetics and bacterial community structure of MBR and hybrid MBBR–MBR systems to treat salinity‐amended urban wastewater

Rodríguez-Sánchez

Leyva‐Díaz

González‐Martínez

et al. 2017

Biotechnology Progress

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Three pilot-scale bioreactors were started up and operated under salinity-amended urban wastewater feeding. The bioreactors were configured as membrane bioreactor and two different hybrid, moving bed biofilm reactor-membrane bioreactor and operated with a hydraulic retention time of 9.5 h, a solid residence time of 11.75 days and a total solids concentration of 2500 mg L . The three systems showed excellent performance in suspended solids, BOD , and COD removal (values of 96-100%, 97-99%, and 88-90%, respectively), but poor nitrogen removal (values of 20-30%). The bacterial community structure during the start-up phase and the stabilization phase were different, as showed by β-diversity analyses. The differences between aerobic and anoxic biomass-and between suspended and attached biomass-were higher at the start-up phase than at the stabilization phase. The start-up phase showed high abundances of Chiayiivirga (mean values around 3-12% relative abundance) and Luteimonas (5-8%), but in the stabilization phase, the domination belonged to Thermomonas (3-14%), Nitrobacter (3-7%), Ottowia (3-11.5%), and Comamonas (2-6%), among others. Multivariate redundancy analyses showed that Thermomonas and Nitrosomonas were positively correlated with fast autotrophic kinetics, while Caulobacter and Ottowia were positively correlated with fast heterotrophic kinetics. Nitrobacter, Rhodanobacter, and Comamonas were positively correlated with fast autotrophic and heterotrophic kinetics. © 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Biotechnol. Prog., 33:1483-1495, 2017.

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{NO}_{2}^{-}

or O 2 concentrations .…”

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confidence: 99%

Linkage of microbial kinetics and bacterial community structure of MBR and hybrid MBBR–MBR systems to treat salinity‐amended urban wastewater

Rodríguez-Sánchez

Leyva‐Díaz

González‐Martínez

et al. 2017

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“…Much of the anammox process understanding developed from various commercial applications designed to exploit the capability of anammox bacteria [58][59][60][61]. Many of these systems involve optimization of a two-step process in which the first reactor or system employs partial nitritation of the available ammonia to nitrite to achieve the 'optimal' 1.2:1 nitrite to ammonia ratio feedstock for the second anammox reactor step converting these to nitrogen gas.…”

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The Zeolite-Anammox Treatment Process for Nitrogen Removal from Wastewater—A Review

Grismer

Collison

2017

Water

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Water quality in San Francisco Bay has been adversely affected by nitrogen loading from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) discharging around the periphery of the Bay. While there is documented use of zeolites and anammox bacteria in removing ammonia and possibly nitrate during wastewater treatment, there is little information available about the combined process. Though relatively large, zeolite beds have a finite ammonium adsorption potential and require periodic re-generation depending on the wastewater nitrogen loading. Use of anammox bacteria reactors for wastewater treatment have shown that ammonium (and to some degree, nitrate) can be successfully removed from the wastewater, but the reactors require careful attention to loading rates and internal redox conditions. Generally, their application has been limited to treatment of high-ammonia strength wastewater at relatively warm temperatures. Moreover, few studies are available describing commercial or full-scale application of these reactors. We briefly review the literature considering use of zeolites or anammox bacteria in wastewater treatment to set the stage for description of an integrated zeolite-anammox process used to remove both ammonium and nitrate without substrate regeneration from mainstream WWTP effluent or anaerobic digester filtrate at ambient temperatures.

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“…The development of the nitrogen concentrations over the study period is displayed in Figures S3 and S4 in the Supplementary Materials. The hydraulic retention time (HRT) remained stable at approximately 1.3 days and thus could not be held responsible for the enhanced conversion of ammonium to nitrite in 2014 even though prolonging the HRT has been shown to positively influence nitritation [25]. Although a positive correlation between TSS and nitrite concentrations would have been expected, this impact could not be conclusively clarified due to missing TSS values for 2015.…”

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Performance and N2O Formation of the Deammonification Process by Suspended Sludge and Biofilm Systems—A Pilot-Scale Study

Leix

Hartl

Zeh³

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Abstract:A two-stage deammonification pilot plant with two different second-stage reactors, namely a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) with suspended sludge and a moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) with biofilm carriers, was investigated over a 1.5-year period to compare reactor performances. Additionally, dissolved nitrous oxide (N 2 O) was measured to determine the reactors' N 2 O formation potential. Although the nitritation performance was moderate (NO 2 -N/NH 4 -N effluent ratio of 0.32 ± 0.15 in combination with SBR and 0.25 ± 0.14 with MBBR), nitrogen turnover and degradation rates exceeding 500 g N/(m 3 ·day) and 80%, respectively, were achieved in both second stages, yet requiring additional aeration. The SBR's average nitrogen removal was 19% higher than the MBBR's; however, the SBR's nitrite influent concentration was comparably elevated. Concerning N 2 O formation, the nitritation reactor exhibited the lowest N 2 O concentrations, while the buffer tank, interconnecting the first and second stages, exhibited the highest N 2 O concentrations of all reactors. Given these high concentrations, a transfer of N 2 O into the second stage was observed, where anoxic phases enabled N 2 O reduction. Frequent biomass removal and a decreased hydraulic retention time in the buffer tank would likely minimize N 2 O formation. For the second stage, enabling anoxic periods in the intermittent aeration cycles right after feeding to support N 2 O reduction and thus minimize the stripping effects or the implementation of a complete anoxic ammonium oxidation will mitigate N 2 O emissions.

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The Effect of Influent Characteristics and Operational Conditions over the Performance and Microbial Community Structure of Partial Nitritation Reactors

Cited by 45 publications

References 81 publications

Linkage of microbial kinetics and bacterial community structure of MBR and hybrid MBBR–MBR systems to treat salinity‐amended urban wastewater

Linkage of microbial kinetics and bacterial community structure of MBR and hybrid MBBR–MBR systems to treat salinity‐amended urban wastewater

The Zeolite-Anammox Treatment Process for Nitrogen Removal from Wastewater—A Review

Performance and N2O Formation of the Deammonification Process by Suspended Sludge and Biofilm Systems—A Pilot-Scale Study

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