Journal
JOURNAL OF WATER PROCESS ENGINEERING
Volume 41, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwpe.2021.102002
Keywords
COD; N ratio; EPS; Bioflocculation; Nitrifying sludge; Microbial community
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China [2018JQ5157]
- Scientific Research Foundation of XAUAT, China [ZR18027]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China, China [51878537]
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The study revealed significant impacts of COD/N ratios on the floc properties and microbial communities of nitrifying sludge, showing that excessive organic loads severely deteriorated nitrification rate and biomass-liquid separation.
The impacts of influent COD/N ratios on the floc properties and microbial communities of nitrifying sludge under high-strength ammonia conditions were investigated. Excessive organic loads severely deteriorated the nitrification rate and biomass-liquid separation. Moreover, both deficient and ample organic substrates affected the bioflocculation. Changes in COD/N ratios resulted in considerable variations in the functional groups and compositions of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). The EPS contents almost unchanged as decreasing the COD/N ratio from 2 to 0; however, the polysaccharides (PS) contents significantly surpassed that of proteins when COD/N ratio increased from 2 to 10. Tryptophan proteins-like substances were the prominent constituents in EPS, but the intensities tapered off with the increment of COD/N ratio; while, more humic acid-like substances generated under both extremely low and high COD/N ratio situations. Structural changes of EPS constituents were dominated by COD/N ratio varying. Mass generation of hydrophilic functional groups related to polysaccharides significantly deteriorated flocculation. Furthermore, the elevated level of COD/N ratios favoured the proliferation of denitrifying bacteria and polysaccharide secreting bacteria but inhibited nitrifying bacteria. Nevertheless, the presence of certain amounts of organic substrates were beneficial to maintain microbial species diversity and proliferation of Nitrospira.
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