Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 295, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122302
Keywords
Biofilm; MBRs combined with pre-anoxic tank; Saline wastewater; TN removal; Microbial community
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51308498]
- National Spark Program of China [2015GA701047]
- Major Social Development Project of Ningbo [2017C510006]
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The performance of pollutant removals, activated sludge characteristics, and microbial communities of two biofilm membrane bioreactors coupled with pre-anoxic tanks (BF-AO-MBRs) (one using fiber bundle bio-carriers (FB-MBR) and the other using suspended bio-carriers (MB-MBR)) were compared at the salinity between zero and 60 g/L. At all salinities, three bioreactors showed good COD average removal efficiencies (> 94.1%), and FB-MBR showed the best TN removal efficiency (90.4% at 30 g/L salinity). Moreover, FB-MBR had the faster process start-up time and better salt shock resistance. At high salinities (30-60 g/L), more extracellular polymeric substances were produced by the BF-AO-MBRs to avoid the penetration of salt and protect the bacterial community. Because of the different attachment patterns of biofilms, the microbial community structure in the FB-MBR exposed to 30 g/L salinity had higher nitrite-oxidizing/ammonia-oxidizing bacteria ratio (6.44) with more abundance of denitrifiers, which contribute to higher TN removal efficiency and lower nitrite accumulation.
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