Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38009922›Full record

ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2023

The microbiome of two strategies for ammonia removal with the sequencing batch moving bed biofilm reactor treating cheese production wastewater.

Alexandra Tsitouras, Nour Al-Ghussain, James Butcher, Alain Stintzi, Robert Delatolla

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Alexandra TsitourasDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1710-6648
Nour Al-GhussainDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
James ButcherDepartment of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Alain StintziDepartment of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Robert DelatollaDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Funding

Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

importanceCheese production facilities must abide by sewage discharge bylaws that prevent overloading municipal water resource recovery facilities, eutrophication, and toxicity to aquatic life. Compact treatment systems can permit on-site treatment of cheese production wastewater; however, competition between heterotrophs and nitrifiers impedes the implementation of the sequencing batch moving bed biofilm reactor (SB-MBBR) for nitrification from high-carbon wastewaters. This study demonstrates that a single SB-MBBR is not feasible for nitrification when operated with anerobic and aerobic cycling for carbon and phosphorous removal from cheese production wastewater, as nitrification does not occur in a single reactor. Thus, two reactors in series are recommended to achieve nitrification from cheese production wastewater in SB-MBBRs. These findings can be applied to pilot and full-scale SB-MBBR operations. By demonstrating the potential to implement partial nitrification in the SB-MBBR system, this study presents the possibility of implementing partial nitrification in the SB-MBBR, resulting in the potential for more sustainable treatment of nitrogen from cheese production wastewater.

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CheeseMicrobiotaAmmoniaBiofilmsBioreactorsCarbonDenitrificationNitrificationNitrogenWaste Disposal, FluidWastewaterAmmoniaCarbonNitrogenWastewaterAOB and NOB competitionindustrial wastewatermicrobial communitynitrogen removalpartial nitrification

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PMID38009922
PMCPMC10734506

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