ArticleApplied microbiology and biotechnology2015
Effect and behaviour of different substrates in relation to the formation of aerobic granular sludge.
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- Diffusion of soluble organic substrates in aerobic granular sludge: Effect of molecular weight.Water research X · 2022Article
- Particulate substrate retention in plug-flow and fully-mixed conditions during operation of aerobic granular sludge systems.Water research X · 2020Article
- Transport and retention of artificial and real wastewater particles inside a bed of settled aerobic granular sludge assessed applying magnetic resonance imaging.Water research X · 2020Article
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- Organic substrate diffusibility governs microbial community composition, nutrient removal performance and kinetics of granulation of aerobic granular sludge.Water research X · 2019Article
- Performance and microbial characteristics of biomass in a full-scale aerobic granular sludge wastewater treatment plant.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2018Article
- Microbial Population Dynamics and Ecosystem Functions of Anoxic/Aerobic Granular Sludge in Sequencing Batch Reactors Operated at Different Organic Loading Rates.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017Article
- Kinetic and thermodynamic control of butyrate conversion in non-defined methanogenic communities.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2016Article
- Effect of sludge age on methanogenic and glycogen accumulating organisms in an aerobic granular sludge process fed with methanol and acetate.Microbial biotechnology · 2015Article
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Abstract
When aerobic granular sludge is applied for industrial wastewater treatment, different soluble substrates can be present. For stable granular sludge formation on volatile fatty acids (e.g. acetate), production of storage polymers under anaerobic feeding conditions has been shown to be important. This prevents direct aerobic growth on readily available chemical oxygen demand (COD), which is thought to result in unstable granule formation. Here, we investigate the impact of acetate, methanol, butanol, propanol, propionaldehyde, and valeraldehyde on granular sludge formation at 35 °C. Methanogenic archaea, growing on methanol, were present in the aerobic granular sludge system. Methanol was completely converted to methane and carbon dioxide by the methanogenic archaeum Methanomethylovorans uponensis during the 1-h anaerobic feeding period, despite the relative high dissolved oxygen concentration (3.5 mg O2 L(-1)) during the subsequent 2-h aeration period. Propionaldehyde and valeraldehyde were fully disproportionated anaerobically into their corresponding carboxylic acids and alcohols. The organic acids produced were converted to storage polymers, while the alcohols (produced and from influent) were absorbed onto the granular sludge matrix and converted aerobically. Our observations show that easy biodegradable substrates not converted anaerobically into storage polymers could lead to unstable granular sludge formation. However, when the easy biodegradable COD is absorbed in the granules and/or when the substrate is converted by relatively slow growing bacteria in the aerobic period, stable granulation can occur.
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