A review of enhanced municipal wastewater treatment through energy savings and carbon recovery to reduce discharge and CO2 footprint

R Du, C Li, Q Liu, J Fan, Y Peng - Bioresource Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Municipal wastewater treatment that mainly performed by conventional activated sludge
(CAS) process faces the challenge of intensive aeration-associated energy consumption for …

Organic carbon bioavailability: Is it a good driver to choose the best biological nitrogen removal process?

G Bonassa, AC Bolsan, CE Hollas, B Venturin… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Organic carbon can affect the biological nitrogen removal process since the Anammox,
heterotrophic and denitrifying bacteria have different affinities and feedback in relation to …

Fast start-up and stable operation of mainstream anammox without inoculation in an A2/O process treating low COD/N real municipal wastewater

Y Zhao, J Li, Q Liu, Z Qi, X Li, Q Zhang, J Sui, C Wang… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
It is of great significance to start up the anammox process in the most commonly used
anaerobic-anoxic-oxic (A 2/O) process in treating mainstream municipal wastewater …

Multiple roles of complex organics in polishing THP-AD filtrate with double-line anammox: Inhibitory relief and bacterial selection

X Li, Y Peng, J Zhang, R Du - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Anammox process has been widely regarded as an energy-efficient method for sludge
digestion filtrate treatment. However, the complex high-strength organics in the filtrate …

Carbon-restricted anoxic zone as an overlooked anammox hotspot in municipal wastewater treatment plants

Q Zhao, L Zhang, J Li, T Jia, L Deng, Q Liu… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The anoxic zone serves as the core functional unit in municipal wastewater treatment plants
(MWWTPs). Unfortunately, in most cases, the downstream range of the anoxic zone is …

Rapid start-up strategy of partial denitrification and microbially driven mechanism of nitrite accumulation mediated by dissolved organic matter

L Zhang, S Hao, Y Wang, S Lan, Q Dou, Y Peng - Bioresource Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
The rapid start-up of Partial denitrification (PD; nitrate to nitrite) was investigated based on
the analysis of microbially driven mechanism of nitrite accumulation mediated by Dissolved …

Multi-omics analysis reveals the nitrogen removal mechanism induced by electron flow during the start-up of the anammox-centered process

L Zhang, S Hao, Q Dou, T Dong, WK Qi… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Significant progress in understanding the key enzymes or species of anammox has been
made; however, the nitrogen removal mechanism in complex coupling systems centered on …

In-situ fermentation coupling with partial-denitrification/anammox process for enhanced nitrogen removal in an integrated three-stage anoxic/oxic (A/O) biofilm reactor …

W Liu, S Hao, B Ma, S Zhang, J Li - Bioresource Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Mainstream partial-denitrification with anammox (PD-anammox) process faced the
challenge of complex organics involved in real sewage. Herein, PD-anammox coupled with …

Nitrite soaking pretreatment induced initial denitrifying nitrite accumulation

J Zhao, Y Wu, J Wang, R Gu, Z Ding, Z Liu… - Bioresource …, 2023 - Elsevier
Partial denitrification (PD) could be another method for obtaining nitrite. However, PD startup
takes a long time limiting its investigation and application. This study proposed nitrite …

Efficient and advanced nitrogen removal from mature landfill leachate via combining nitritation and denitritation with Anammox in a single sequencing batch biofilm …

H Jiang, P Yang, Z Wang, S Ren, J Qiu, H Liang… - Bioresource …, 2021 - Elsevier
A novel combined partial nitrification-Anammox and partial denitrification-Anammox
(PnA/PdA) single sequencing batch biofilm reactor (SBBR) was established to realize …