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Rapid start-up of a nitritation granular reactor using activated sludge as inoculum at the influent organics/ammonium mass ratio of 2/1.
Bioresource Technology 2018 May
Partial oxidation of ammonium to nitrite is a pre- and crucial step to achieve shortcut biological nitrogen removal from ammonium-rich wastewater. In the present study, a nitritation granular reactor using activated sludge as inoculum was started up in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) at a fixed influent C/N ratio of 2:1. Variations in the reactor performance, functional bacteria activities, sludge morphology and bacterial community structure were investigated. Results showed the formation of compact granules was achieved in 55 days, and a stable nitrite accumulation rate of 0.68 kg N·m-3 ·d-1 was maintained in the following period. With a rapid growth of granular size, the total nitrogen removal by simultaneous nitritation/denitritation was progressively increased to 50%. In sludge granulation, the significant enrichment of r-strategist ammonium oxidizing bacteria (Nitrosomonas) was identified. Additionally, both high free ammonia concentration and extra nitrite competition by heterotrophic denitrifiers were critical to suppress nitrite oxidizing bacteria effectively.
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