Short-Term Effects of Tourmaline on Nitrogen Removals and Microbial Communities in a Sequencing Batch Reactor at Low Temperatures

Yahong Han; Shan Qiu; Hongyun Zeng; Fang Ma; Jue Wang; Yilun Qiu; Xuedi An

doi:10.3390/ijerph15061280

Short-Term Effects of Tourmaline on Nitrogen Removals and Microbial Communities in a Sequencing Batch Reactor at Low Temperatures

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Jun 17;15(6):1280. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15061280.

Authors

Yahong Han¹, Shan Qiu^{2

3}, Hongyun Zeng⁴, Fang Ma^{5

6}, Jue Wang⁷, Yilun Qiu⁸, Xuedi An⁹

Affiliations

¹ School of Environment Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 73, the Yellow River Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150090, China. hyahonghong@126.com.
² School of Environment Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 73, the Yellow River Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150090, China. qiushan@hit.edu.cn.
³ State Laboratory of Urban Water Resources and Environment Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 73, the Yellow River Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150090, China. qiushan@hit.edu.cn.
⁴ Heilongjiang Provincial Environmental Science Research Institute, Harbin 150056, China. zenghongyun_hky@163.com.
⁵ School of Environment Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 73, the Yellow River Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150090, China. mafang@hit.edu.cn.
⁶ State Laboratory of Urban Water Resources and Environment Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 73, the Yellow River Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150090, China. mafang@hit.edu.cn.
⁷ School of Environment Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 73, the Yellow River Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150090, China. wangjue299@hit.edu.cn.
⁸ School of Environment Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 73, the Yellow River Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150090, China. LL2012323@126.com.
⁹ School of Environment Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 73, the Yellow River Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150090, China. 16S127181@stu.hit.edu.cn.

Abstract

Tourmaline is a ring borosilicate with unique pyro-electricity and piezoelectricity values. Non-gem tourmaline is usually used as an environmental material. The short-term effects of ultrafine tourmaline particles on nitrogen removal performs microbial population dynamics. Key functional species in a sequencing batch reactor were investigated at 9 ± 1 °C. The investigation results showed that 1 g·L^−1 ultrafine tourmaline particles could resist the effect of temperature shock on the metabolism of NH₄⁺-N and were beneficial to the restoration of the metabolism capacity of NH₄⁺-N. 1 g·L^−1 ultrafine tourmaline particles, which increased the oxidation rate of NH₄⁺-N in the aerobic phase, the formation rate of NO₃^−-N in the aerobic phase, and the denitrification rate in the hypoxia phase at low temperatures. However, the community richness or diversities were not changed after short-term exposure to 1 g·L^−1 ultrafine tourmaline particles at low temperatures and 1 g·L^−1 ultrafine tourmaline particles could not change the relative abundances of functional microbes except nitrite oxidizing bacteria.

Keywords: low temperatures; microbial community; nitrogen removal; tourmaline.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Bacteria / metabolism*
Bioreactors / microbiology*
Cold Temperature
Denitrification / drug effects*
Environmental Restoration and Remediation / methods*
Microbiota / drug effects*
Nitrogen / metabolism*
Oxidation-Reduction
Silicates / metabolism*

Substances

Silicates
tourmaline
Nitrogen