Start-up of oxygen-limited autotrophic partial nitrification-anammox process for treatment of nitrite-free wastewater in a single-stage hybrid bioreactor.

Environmental Technology
Bahareh HosseinpourCatherine N Mulligan

Abstract

This study presents effective ammonium removal from nitrite-free ammonium-rich synthetic wastewater through combined partial nitrification (PN) and anammox processes in a multi-zone hybrid airlift bioreactor (BioCAST). Removal efficiencies of ammonia-nitrogen and total nitrogen up to 85.6% and 81.2%, respectively, were achieved shortly after the start-up of bioreactor treating the nitrite-free ammonium-rich synthetic wastewater with ammonium concentrations of 10-350 mg/L. The hybrid (containing suspended and attached biomass) and multi-zone design of the bioreactor with different dissolved oxygen levels, along with the inoculation with anammox-containing sludge were the main factors in the successful start-up of the bioreactor. Nitrate accumulation problem due to the fast growth of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in the bioreactor was controlled by two operating strategies including lowering the HRT from 4 days to 2 days and controlling the dissolved oxygen concentration in the aerobic zone of the bioreactor between 0.9 and 1.2 mg/L. Moreover, the 16S rRNA gene analysis confirmed that the partial nitrification of ammonia to nitrite occurred by Nitrosomonas sp. primarily in the suspended biomass in the aerobic zone, while the convers...Continue Reading

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