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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2018

Improving a compact biofilm reactor to realize efficient nitrogen removal performance: step-feed, intermittent aeration, and immobilization technique.

Ming Zeng, Jie Hu, Denghui Wang, Hongting Wang, Yaochen Wang, Nan Wu, Zongpeng Zhang, Chang Wang

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Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Ming ZengCollege of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China.
Jie HuCollege of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China.
Denghui WangCollege of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China.
Hongting WangCollege of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China.
Yaochen WangCollege of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China.
Nan WuCollege of Engineering and Technology, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin, 300384, China.
Zongpeng ZhangFukai Diwo (Tianjin) Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd, Tianjin, 300457, China.
Chang WangCollege of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China. wangc88@163.com.

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Purifying tank as a compact biofilm reactor has been widely used to remove organic matter in rural sewage, but its potential for nitrogen removal is rare to be discussed. This study developed a lab-scale compact biofilm reactor to realize an efficient nitrogen removal performance by step-feed, intermittent aeration, and immobilization technique. The results show that an efficient simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) process took place by feeding with synthetic wastewater under high C/N ratio of 2 and with real sewage as well, mainly due to the step-feed. The average removal efficiency of total inorganic nitrogen arrived at 72.7 and 63.3% for synthetic wastewater and real sewage, respectively. Besides the step-feed operation, the intermittent aeration was adopted to enhance SND, which allowed hydraulic behavior of compact biofilm reactor following the model of completely stirred tank reactor. The high-throughput sequencing analysis indicates that Sphaerotilus became the dominant genera with relative abundance of 30.29% under high C/N ratio, and the nitrifiers were not greatly inhibited. Moreover, the immobilization technique helped restore microbial activity under low temperature, promoting the satisfactory nitrogen removal performance of recovered microorganism to be rebuilt by feeding nutrient solution. Overall, the long-term SND process and maintaining effective biofilm activity can be established in the compact biofilm reactor through several improving alternatives.

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DenitrificationBiofilmsBioreactorsModels, TheoreticalNitrogenSewageWaste Disposal, FluidWastewaterNitrogenSewageWastewaterBiological wastewater treatmentC/N ratioEmbedded microorganismPolyvinyl alcoholSimultaneous nitrification and denitrification

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