Saline wastewater treatment with purple phototrophic bacteria

T Hülsen, K Hsieh, DJ Batstone - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Biological removal of organics, nitrogen and from saline wastewaters is adversely impacted
by high salinity, which can be a major concern for treatment of industrial or domestic saline …

Phototrophic bacteria for nutrient recovery from domestic wastewater

T Hülsen, DJ Batstone, J Keller - Water Research, 2014 - Elsevier
The organics and nutrients in industrial and domestic wastewater are increasingly being
regarded as a valuable resource for energy and nutrient recovery. Emerging concepts to …

Enrichment and aggregation of purple non-sulfur bacteria in a mixed-culture sequencing-batch photobioreactor for biological nutrient removal from wastewater

M Cerruti, B Stevens, S Ebrahimi, A Alloul… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mixed-culture biotechnologies are widely used to capture nutrients from wastewater. Purple
non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB), a guild of anoxygenic photomixotrophic organisms, rise interest …

Autotrophic sulfide removal by mixed culture purple phototrophic bacteria

F Egger, T Hülsen, S Tait, DJ Batstone - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Current H 2 S treatment methods for sour gases require considerable amounts of chemicals
and energy, or in case of biological treatment, unwanted diluents such as oxygen or nitrogen …

Low temperature treatment of domestic wastewater by purple phototrophic bacteria: Performance, activity, and community.

T Hülsen, EM Barry, Y Lu, D Puyol, DJ Batstone - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
Low wastewater temperatures affect microbial growth rates and microbial populations, as
well as physical chemical characteristics of the wastewater. Wastewater treatment plant …

Purple non-sulfur bacteria technology: a promising and potential approach for wastewater treatment and bioresources recovery

H Lu, G Zhang, S He, R Zhao, D Zhu - World Journal of Microbiology and …, 2021 - Springer
Shortage of water, energy, and bioresources in the world has led to the exploration of new
technologies that achieve resource recovery from wastewater, which has become a new …

Operational strategies to selectively produce purple bacteria for microbial protein in raceway reactors

A Alloul, M Cerruti, D Adamczyk… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Purple non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB) show potential for microbial protein production on
wastewater as animal feed. They offer good selectivity (ie, low microbial diversity and high …

Domestic wastewater treatment with purple phototrophic bacteria using a novel continuous photo anaerobic membrane bioreactor

T Hülsen, EM Barry, Y Lu, D Puyol, J Keller… - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
A key future challenge of domestic wastewater treatment is nutrient recovery while still
achieving acceptable discharge limits. Nutrient partitioning using purple phototrophic …

Volatile fatty acids impacting phototrophic growth kinetics of purple bacteria: paving the way for protein production on fermented wastewater

A Alloul, S Wuyts, S Lebeer, SE Vlaeminck - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Nutrient losses in our food chain severely surpass our planetary boundaries. Resource
recovery can contribute to mitigation, for instance through converting wastewater resources …

Purple phototrophic bacteria for resource recovery: challenges and opportunities

G Capson-Tojo, DJ Batstone, M Grassino… - Biotechnology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sustainable development is driving a rapid focus shift in the wastewater and organic waste
treatment sectors, from a “removal and disposal” approach towards the recovery and reuse …