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PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 63, Issue -, Pages 214-220Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2017.08.016
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Embedding immobilization; Nitrification; High-strength ammonium; Biological nitrogen removal; High-throughput
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- Fundamental Research Fund for Central Universities (China) [106112014CDJZR210010]
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We employed microorganism embedding immobilization technology to treat high-strength ammonium(NH4+ -N) wastewater. Experiments were conducted in batch reactors with different initial ammonium concentrations (50-400 mg/L), 10% particle dosage rates, 7.5-8.5 pH, and 495-min operation cycle. Stable treatment efficiency was reached in the 28th, 40th, 55th, 58th, and 58th cycles with average ammonium removal rates of 100, 100, 80.9, 64.6, and 48.0%, respectively. The ammonium removal reaction followed zero-order reaction kinetics. Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) demonstrated that the specific surface area and pore size of beads in stable phase were larger than corresponding values for the unused embedding beads, and microorganisms were found in the interior and external surface of beads. High-throughput sequencing illustrated that the microbial community composition significantly differed between the interior and external surface of embedding beads. And the existence of heterotrophic nitrifying and aerobic denitrifying bacteria may provide additional pathways for biological nitrogen removal in the reactors.
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