Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 241, Issue -, Pages 945-950Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.05.206
Keywords
Semi-starvation fluctuation C/N ratio; ppGpp; AHLs; Denitrifying sludge granulation; Performance
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51678387]
- Key project of Tianjin Natural Science Foundation [17JCZDJC39300]
- Science Research Program of High Level Talents in Hebei Universities (China) [GCC2014045]
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This study cultivated denitrifying granular sludge in three UASB reactors by the semi-starvation fluctuation C/N ratio strategy (reactor 1 (R1): constant C/N ratio; R2: regular fluctuation C/N ratio; and R3: semi-starvation fluctuation C/N ratio (SSF)). Microbial aggregates appeared in R1, R2 and R3 on days 28, 14 and 6, respectively. Compared with the results in R1 and R2, the guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) concentration was highest, the acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) concentration quickly reached a certain threshold, and more protein (PN) of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) secretion resulted in the rapid formation of denitrifying granular sludge in R3. The SSF strategy enhances microbial diversity, and denitrifying granular sludge has a better nitrogen removal performance. The result demonstrates that ppGpp, AHLs, EPS and the denitrifying sludge granulation process are associated. A mechanism for denitrifying sludge granulation with SSF strategy was proposed from the aspect of quorum sensing (QS). (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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