A 20-year journey of partial nitritation and anammox (PN/A): from sidestream toward mainstream

Z Wang, M Zheng, H Duan, Z Yuan… - Environmental Science & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ana erobic amm onium ox idation (anammox) was discovered as a new microbial reaction in
the late 1990s, which led to the development of an innovative energy-and carbon-efficient …

Nitrite oxidation in wastewater treatment: microbial adaptation and suppression challenges

Z Su, T Liu, J Guo, M Zheng - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Microbial nitrite oxidation is the primary pathway that generates nitrate in wastewater
treatment systems and can be performed by a variety of microbes: namely, nitrite-oxidizing …

[HTML][HTML] One-year stable pilot-scale operation demonstrates high flexibility of mainstream anammox application

M Zheng, H Li, H Duan, T Liu, Z Wang, J Zhao, Z Hu… - Water Research X, 2023 - Elsevier
Mainstream nitrogen removal via anammox is widely recognized as a promising wastewater
treatment process. However, its application is challenging at large scale due to unstable …

A successful start-up of an anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) coupled mainstream partial nitritation-anammox (PN/A) system: a pilot-scale study on in-situ …

J Wu, Z Kong, Z Luo, Y Qin, C Rong, T Wang… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
In this pilot-scale study, an innovative mainstream treatment process that couples the
anaerobic membrane reactor (AnMBR) with a one-stage PN/A system was proposed for …

Unravelling adaptation of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in mainstream PN/A process: Mechanisms and counter-strategies

Z Wang, M Zheng, Z Hu, H Duan, H De Clippeleir… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Stable suppression of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) is still a major challenge for the
implementation of partial nitritation and anammox (PN/A) in mainstream treatment. Despite …

[HTML][HTML] The structure of microbial communities of activated sludge of large-scale wastewater treatment plants in the city of Moscow

S Begmatov, AG Dorofeev, VV Kadnikov, AV Beletsky… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Microbial communities in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) play a key role in water
purification. Microbial communities of activated sludge (AS) vary extensively based on plant …

Determining factors for nitrite accumulation in an acidic nitrifying system: influent ammonium concentration, operational pH, and ammonia-oxidizing community

J Meng, Z Hu, Z Wang, S Hu, Y Liu, H Guo… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Acidic nitrification is attracting wide attention because it can enable robust suppression of
nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) in wastewater treatment. This study reports a comprehensive …

An overview of deploying membrane bioreactors in saline wastewater treatment from perspectives of microbial and treatment performance

TND Cao, XT Bui, LT Le, BT Dang, DPH Tran… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
The discharged saline wastewater has severely influenced the aquatic environment as the
treatment performance of many wastewater treatment techniques is limited. In addition, the …

Efficient nitrogen removal from mainstream wastewater through coupling Partial Nitritation, Anammox and Methane-dependent nitrite/nitrate reduction (PNAM)

T Liu, Y Lu, M Zheng, S Hu, Z Yuan, J Guo - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The application of partial nitritation and anammox to remove nitrogen from mainstream
wastewater is of great interest because of the potential to reduce energy cost and carbon …

How to provide nitrite robustly for anaerobic ammonium oxidation in mainstream nitrogen removal

K Wang, J Li, X Gu, H Wang, X Li… - … Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Innovation in decarbonizing wastewater treatment is urgent in response to global climate
change. The practical implementation of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) …