Start-up of single-stage partial nitrification-anammox process treating low-strength swage and its restoration from nitrate accumulation

Yuanyuan Miao; Liang Zhang; Yandong Yang; Yongzhen Peng; Baikun Li; Shuying Wang; Qian Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2016.06.125

Start-up of single-stage partial nitrification-anammox process treating low-strength swage and its restoration from nitrate accumulation

Bioresour Technol. 2016 Oct:218:771-9. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.06.125. Epub 2016 Jul 1.

Authors

Yuanyuan Miao¹, Liang Zhang¹, Yandong Yang², Yongzhen Peng³, Baikun Li⁴, Shuying Wang¹, Qian Zhang¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China.
² State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China.
³ Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China. Electronic address: pyz@bjut.edu.cn.
⁴ Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.

PMID: 27423544
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.06.125

Abstract

A single-stage partial nitrification-anammox (PN/A) reactor treating low-strength swage was operated for 288days to investigate the recovery of nitrogen removal from nitrate accumulation. The reactor was quickly started up by inoculating anammox sludge. However, nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB) abundance gradually increased on day 25, leading to high effluent nitrate concentration. Two strategies were executed to control the effluent nitrate. In strategy I, dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration was kept low (0.17±0.08mg/L), but nitrate production increased from 4.71 to 38.18mg-N/L. In strategy II, intermittent aeration operation mode (aeration 7min/anoxic 21min) was adopted, which significantly lowered the nitrate concentration to 1.3mg-N/L, indicating the NOB was inhibited. The high nitrogen removal rate of 73mg-N/(L·d) was achieved. The evolution of bacterial activity and abundance verified the changes of the nitrogen removal performance and proved the intermittent aeration strategy could successfully solve the problem of nitrate build-up in the PN/A process.

Keywords: Intermittent aeration; Low-strength swage; Nitrate accumulation; Nitrite oxidization bacteria; Single-stage partial nitrification-anammox.

MeSH terms

Ammonium Compounds / chemistry
Bacteria / metabolism*
Bioreactors / microbiology
Denitrification
Nitrates / chemistry
Nitrates / metabolism*
Nitrification / physiology*
Nitrogen / metabolism*
Nitrogen Oxides / metabolism
Sewage / chemistry*
Sewage / microbiology
Waste Disposal, Fluid / methods

Substances

Ammonium Compounds
Nitrates
Nitrogen Oxides
Sewage
Nitrogen