Journal
WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 63, Issue 6, Pages 1282-1288Publisher
IWA PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2011.370
Keywords
aerobic granule; ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB); anammox; CANON; SBR
Funding
- Spanish Government [CTQ2008-06792-C02-01, CSD2007-00055]
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In this work the autotrophic nitrogen removal was carried out at moderately low temperatures using two configurations: a) two-units one comprising a SHARON reactor coupled to an Anammox SBR and b) single-unit one consisting of a granular SBR performing the CANON process. At 20 degrees C the two-units system was limited by the Anammox step and its nitrogen removal capacity was around ten times lower than the CANON system (0.08 g N/(L d) versus 1 g N/(L d)). When the CANON system was operated at 15 degrees C the average removed nitrogen loading rate decreased to 0.2 g N/(L d). The CANON system was operated in order to limit the ammonia oxidation rate to avoid nitrite inhibition of Anammox bacteria. Since both, temperature and dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration regulate ammonia oxidizing bacteria activity, once the temperature of the reactor is decreased the DO concentration must be decreased to avoid the deeper oxygen penetration inside the granule which could cause inhibition of Anammox bacteria by oxygen and/or nitrite.
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