PMID: 11329673May 2, 2001Paper

Simultaneous carbon and nitrogen removal from high strength domestic wastewater in an aerobic RBC biofilm

Water Research
A B Gupta, S K Gupta

Abstract

High strength domestic wastewater discharges after no/partial treatment through sewage treatment plants or septic tank seepage field systems have resulted in a large build-up of groundwater nitrates in Rajasthan, India. The groundwater table is very deep and nitrate concentrations of 500-750 mg/l (113-169 as NO3(-)-N) are commonly found. A novel biofilm in a 3-stage lab-scale rotating biological contactor (RBC) was developed by the incorporation of a sulphur oxidising bacterium Thiosphaera pantotropha which exhibited high simultaneous removal of carbon and nitrogen in fully aerobic conditions. T. pantotropha has been shown to be capable of simultaneous heterotrophic nitrification and aerobic denitrification thereby helping the steps of carbon oxidation, nitrification and denitrification to be carried out concurrently. The first stage having T. pantotropha dominated biofilm showed high carbon and NH4(+)-N removal rates of 8.7-25.9 g COD/m2 d and 0.81-1.85 g N/m2 d for the corresponding loadings of 10.0-32.0 g COD/m2 d and 1.0-3.35 g N/m2 d. The ratio of carbon removed to nitrogen removed was close to 12.0. The nitrification rate increased from 0.81 to 1.8 g N/m2 d with the increasing nitrogen loading rates despite a high simulta...Continue Reading

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