Net-zero greenhouse gas emission from wastewater treatment: Mechanisms, opportunities and perspectives

Y He, Y Li, X Li, Y Liu, Y Wang, H Guo, J Hou… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Net-zero emission and self-sustaining carbon-neutral have been widely encouraged and
intensively explored in wastewater treatment, as the wastewater industry accounts for …

[HTML][HTML] Hydroxylamine and the nitrogen cycle: a review

A Soler-Jofra, J Pérez, MCM Van Loosdrecht - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Aerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria were first isolated more than 100 years ago and
hydroxylamine is known to be an intermediate. The enzymatic steps involving …

Complete nitrification: insights into the ecophysiology of comammox Nitrospira

H Koch, MAHJ van Kessel, S Lücker - Applied microbiology and …, 2019 - Springer
Nitrification, the oxidation of ammonia via nitrite to nitrate, has been considered to be a
stepwise process mediated by two distinct functional groups of microorganisms. The …

Comammox Nitrospira are the dominant ammonia oxidizers in a mainstream low dissolved oxygen nitrification reactor

P Roots, Y Wang, AF Rosenthal, JS Griffin, F Sabba… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent findings show that a subset of bacteria affiliated with Nitrospira, a genus known for its
importance in nitrite oxidation for biological nutrient removal applications, are capable of …

Enrichment and physiological characterization of a novel comammox Nitrospira indicates ammonium inhibition of complete nitrification

D Sakoula, H Koch, J Frank, MSM Jetten… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The recent discovery of bacteria within the genus Nitrospira capable of complete ammonia
oxidation (comammox) demonstrated that the sequential oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via …

Ubiquity and diversity of complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox)

F Xia, JG Wang, T Zhu, B Zou, SK Rhee… - Applied and …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
The discovery of complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox) refutes the century-old
paradigm that nitrification requires the activity of two types of microbes. Determining the …

[HTML][HTML] The occurrence and role of Nitrospira in nitrogen removal systems

MJ Mehrani, D Sobotka, P Kowal, S Ciesielski… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
Application of the modern microbial techniques changed the paradigm about the
microorganisms performing nitrification. Numerous investigations recognized …

Ammonia oxidation: ecology, physiology, biochemistry and why they must all come together

LE Lehtovirta-Morley - FEMS microbiology letters, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Ammonia oxidation is a fundamental core process in the global biogeochemical nitrogen
cycle. Oxidation of ammonia (NH3) to nitrite (NO2−) is the first and rate-limiting step in …

[HTML][HTML] The r/K selection theory and its application in biological wastewater treatment processes

Q Yin, Y Sun, B Li, Z Feng, G Wu - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the characteristics of functional organisms is the key to managing and
updating biological processes for wastewater treatment. This review, for the first time …

Mainstream nitrogen removal from low temperature and low ammonium strength municipal wastewater using hydrogel-encapsulated comammox and anammox

B Li, BJ Godfrey, R RedCorn, P Candry, B Abrahamson… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Application of partial nitritation (PN)-anammox to mainstream wastewater treatment faces
challenges in low water temperature and low ammonium strength. In this study, a continuous …