Journal
BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 41, Issue 1, Pages 59-66Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2008.03.008
Keywords
nitrogen removal; wastewater treatment; bioreactor; immobilized bacteria; nitrification; denitrification
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A bioreactor system with 30 packed gel envelopes was installed in a thermal power plant for the removal of nitrogen from ammonia-containing desulfurization wastewater. Each envelope consisted ofdouble-sided plate gels containing Nitrosomonas europaea and Paracoccus denitrificans cells with an internal space in between for injecting an electron donor. The envelope can remove ammonia from wastewater in a single step. When the wastewater was continuously treated with the bioreactor system, it removed 95.0% ofthe total nitrogen in the inlet, and the total nitrogen concentration in the outlet was below 9.0 mg L-1. The maximum nitrogen removal rate was 6.0 gday-1 per square meter ofthe gel area. The maximum utilization efficiency of the injected ethanol for denitrification was 98.4%, and the total organic carbon concentration in the outflow was maintained at a low level. Since the bioreactor system could use the electron donor effectively, it was not necessary to use an additional aerobic tank to remove the electron donor and a settling tank to segregate the surplus sludge containing bacteria from wastewater. Our concept of using packed gel envelopes would be highly effective for constructing a simple and efficient nitrogen rernoval system capable of simultaneous nitrification and clenitrification. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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