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Simultaneous enhanced biological high-strength phosphorus removal and nitrite accumulation in a lab-scale sequencing batch reactor

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Yuan_cornell_0058O_11097.pdf (497.51 KB)
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https://doi.org/10.7298/ydt5-x570
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/103326
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Author
Yuan, Zhihang
Abstract

The enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) has been widely applied in treating domestic wastewater, while the performance on high-strength P wastewater is less investigated and the feasibility of coupling with short-cut nitrogen removal process remains unknown. This study first achieved the simultaneous high-efficient P removal and stable nitrite accumulation in one sequencing batch reactor for treating the synthetic digested manure wastewater. The average effluent P could be down to 0.8 ± 1.0 mg P/L and the P removal efficiency was 99.5 ± 0.8%. Candidatus Accumulibacter was the dominant polyphosphate accumulating organism with the relative abundance of 14.2-33.1%, while the presence of glycogen accumulating organisms (Defluviicoccus and Candidatus Competibacter) with relatively higher abundance (15.6-40.3%) did not deteriorate the EBPR performance. Moreover, nitrite accumulation happened in the system with the effluent nitrite up to 20.4 ± 6.4 mg N/L and the nitrite accumulation ratio was nearly 100% for 140 days (420 cycles). Nitrosomonas was the dominant ammonia-oxidizing bacteria with relative abundance of 0.3-2.4% while nitrite-oxidizing bacteria were almost undetected (<0.1%). The introduction of extended anaerobic phase and high volatile fatty acid concentrations were assumed as the potential selectors to promote partial nitrification. This study provided a new sight to combine the EBPR and short-cut nitrogen removal via nitrite to achieve simultaneous nitrogen and phosphorus removal.

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49 pages
Date Issued
2020-12
Keywords
EBPR
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High-strength wastewater
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Microbial community
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Nitrite accumulation
Committee Chair
Gu, April
Committee Member
Reid, Matthew Charles
Degree Discipline
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Degree Name
M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering
Degree Level
Master of Science
Type
dissertation or thesis
Link(s) to Catalog Record
https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/13312134

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