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Fresh leachate from municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration plant in China always contains extremely high concentration of calcium which would reduce the bioactivity of microorganisms and lead to calcium precipitation in granules. This paper investigated the effect of high concentration of calcium on anaerobic granular sludge without calcium precipitation by static tests for 72 h, and on anaerobic bio-treatment process for treating fresh leachate in a laboratory-scale expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB) reactor with calcium precipitation for 132 d. The results showed that, suppression thresholds of calcium concentration for anaerobic granular sludge were 5000 mg/L from both static tests and EGSB reactor operation. Calcium precipitation in anaerobic granules was a gradual formation process, mainly in the form of calcium carbonate calcite. Compared with calcium precipitation, high calcium concentration was …