Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 177, Issue -, Pages 337-345Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.10.152
Keywords
Landfill leachate; Nitritation; Simultaneous denitritation and methanogenesis; Free ammonia; Process control
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [51168028, 51168027]
- Science and Technique Foundation Project for Youth of Gansu Province [1107RJYA279]
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A novel biological system coupling an UASB and a SBR was established to treat landfill leachate. In order to enhance organics and nitrogen removal, simultaneous denitritation and methanogenesis (SDM) was performed in the UASB. Free ammonia (FA) inhibition on nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) and process control was used to achieve nitrite pathway in the SBR. Results over 623 days showed that the maximum organic removal rate in the UASB and the maximum ammonium oxidization rate in the SBR was 12.7 kgCOD/m(3) d and 0.96 kgN/m(3) d, respectively. The system achieved COD, TN, and NH4+-N removal efficiencies of 93.5%, 99.5%, and 99.1%, respectively. By using FA inhibition coupled with process control, the nitrite pathway was started-up in the SBR at low temperatures (14.0-18.2 degrees C) and was maintained for 142 days at temperatures below 15 degrees C (the lowest level was 9.0 degrees C). The predominant ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) explains essentially stable nitritation obtained. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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