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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2022

Biological nitrogen removal from low carbon wastewater.

Kiprotich Kosgey, Phumza Vuyokazi Zungu, Faizal Bux, Sheena Kumari

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Construction of RecombinantMicroorganisms · 2025
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  3. Wastewater Treatment with Bacterial Representatives of theInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kiprotich KosgeyInstitute for Water and Wastewater Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa.
Phumza Vuyokazi ZunguInstitute for Water and Wastewater Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa.
Faizal BuxInstitute for Water and Wastewater Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa.
Sheena KumariInstitute for Water and Wastewater Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nitrogen has traditionally been removed from wastewater by nitrification and denitrification processes, in which organic carbon has been used as an electron donor during denitrification. However, some wastewaters contain low concentrations of organic carbon, which may require external organic carbon supply, increasing treatment costs. As a result, processes such as partial nitrification/anammox (anaerobic ammonium oxidation) (PN/A), autotrophic denitrification, nitritation-denitritation and bioelectrochemical processes have been studied as possible alternatives, and are thus evaluated in this study based on process kinetics, applicability at large-scale and process configuration. Oxygen demand for nitritation-denitritation and PN/A is 25% and 60% lower than for nitrification/denitrification, respectively. In addition, PN/A process does not require organic carbon supply, while its supply for nitritation-denitritation is 40% less than for nitrification/denitrification. Both PN/A and nitritation-denitritation produce less sludge compared to nitrification/denitrification, which saves on sludge handling costs. Similarly, autotrophic denitrification generates less sludge compared to heterotrophic denitrification and could save on sludge handling costs. However, autotrophic denitrification driven by metallic ions, elemental sulfur (S) and its compounds could generate harmful chemicals. On the other hand, hydrogenotrophic denitrification can remove nitrogen completely without generation of harmful chemicals, but requires specialized equipment for generation and handling of hydrogen gas (H

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anammox processautotrophic denitrificationbioelctrochemical processDEAMOX processlow carbon wastewaternitrogen removal

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PMID36466689
PMCPMC9709150

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