ArticleInternational biodeterioration & biodegradation2025
Environmentally-grown aerobic granular sludge performs more complete pharmaceutical biodegradation and wastewater treatment than lab-grown granules.
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- Advances in the Application of Aerobic Granular Sludge for the Removal of Emerging Contaminants in Municipal and Industrial Wastewater.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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This study evaluated pharmaceutical removal by environmentally-grown aerobic granular sludge (AGS). Most pharmaceutical treatment studies utilize lab-grown AGS, which is cultivated from activated sludge flocs on synthetic media and therefore is likely to possess different physical and microbiological properties than its real-world counterpart. For approximately 70 days, a 60 μg/L mixture of gemfibrozil, diclofenac, and erythromycin was fed to environmentally-grown AGS. Wastewater treatment, granule characteristics, and pharmaceutical fate were monitored. Environmentally-grown granules outperformed their lab-grown counterparts in multiple ways: environmental granules were physically unimpacted by pharmaceuticals, phosphate removal remained complete, and all nitrogen removal processes were unaffected except ammonia oxidation, which was temporarily inhibited by approximately 35%. Most importantly, gemfibrozil was completely biodegraded, a result yet to be observed in any AGS study. Diclofenac and erythromycin removal were minimal and generally below 10%. The families J111,
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