Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 293, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122082
Keywords
Waste activated sludge; Pretreatment; Dissolved organic matter; Denitrification; EEMF-PARAFAC; FT-ICR-MS
Funding
- Major Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control and Treatment [2017ZX07403002, 2017ZX07204001]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21876110]
- Shanghai Pujiang Program [18PJ1406300]
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Waste activated sludge (WAS) can be used as carbon sources to support biological nutrient removal (BNR). In this study, thermal-alkaline (THALK), ozonation (OZN), electrolysis (EC) and NaClO-promoted electrolysis (ECAOP) were investigated to facilitate WAS solubilization and production of volatile fatty acids (VFAs). EEMF-PARAFAC and FT-ICR-MS were employed to characterize the transformation of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in WAS fermentation liquors at molecular level. THALK achieved the highest fluorescence intensity of Cl protein after pretreatment. Proteins and lipids were the dominant DOM in the pretreated WAS, while the DOM shifted towards substances with higher H/C and lower O/C after fermentation. The BNR results showed that THALK (100%) and EC-AOP (96.9%) outperformed other groups (78.9-90.3%) in terms of NO3-N removal, indicating the significant impact of DOM compositions. Overall, these results demonstrated that THALK and EC-AOP effectively enhanced release of VFAs and DOM, which subsequently improved NO3-N removal efficiency.
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