The microbial nitrogen-cycling network

MMM Kuypers, HK Marchant, B Kartal - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Nitrogen is an essential component of all living organisms and the main nutrient limiting life
on our planet. By far, the largest inventory of freely accessible nitrogen is atmospheric …

An advanced synergy of partial denitrification-anammox for optimizing nitrogen removal from wastewater: A review

HE Al-Hazmi, M Maktabifard, D Grubba, J Majtacz… - Bioresource …, 2023 - Elsevier
Anammox is a widely adopted process for energy-efficient removal of nitrogen from
wastewater, but challenges with NOB suppression and NO 3− accumulation have led to a …

Feasibility of partial-denitrification/anammox for pharmaceutical wastewater treatment in a hybrid biofilm reactor

J Zhang, Y Peng, X Li, R Du - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Biological nitrogen removal from pharmaceutical wastewater has drawn increasing attention
due to biotoxicity and inhibition. In this study, for the first time, a novel approach integrating …

Nano zero-valent iron improves anammox activity by promoting the activity of quorum sensing system

Z Wang, X Liu, SQ Ni, X Zhuang, T Lee - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The addition of nano zero-valent iron (nZVI) has been proven to improve the efficiency of the
anammox process, however, the mechnism is not clear. Here, the effect of nZVI on anammox …

Defluorination of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) by Acidimicrobium sp. Strain A6

S Huang, PR Jaffé - Environmental science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Incubations with pure and enrichment cultures of Acidimicrobium sp. strain A6 (A6), an
autotroph that oxidizes ammonium to nitrite while reducing ferric iron, were conducted in the …

Global nitrogen cycle: critical enzymes, organisms, and processes for nitrogen budgets and dynamics

X Zhang, BB Ward, DM Sigman - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen (N) is used in many of life's fundamental biomolecules, and it is also a participant in
environmental redox chemistry. Biogeochemical processes control the amount and form of N …

Sustainable nitrogen removal in anammox-mediated systems: Microbial metabolic pathways, operational conditions and mathematical modelling

HE Al-Hazmi, X Lu, D Grubba, J Majtacz… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Anammox-mediated systems have attracted considerable attention as alternative cost-
effective technologies for sustainable nitrogen (N) removal from wastewater. This review …

Methanotrophs: discoveries, environmental relevance, and a perspective on current and future applications

S Guerrero-Cruz, A Vaksmaa, MA Horn… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Methane is the final product of the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter. The
conversion of organic matter to methane (methanogenesis) as a mechanism for energy …

Quantify the contribution of anammox for enhanced nitrogen removal through metagenomic analysis and mass balance in an anoxic moving bed biofilm reactor

J Li, Y Peng, L Zhang, J Liu, X Wang, R Gao, L Pang… - Water Research, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, enhanced nitrogen removal through in situ enrichment of anammox bacteria
was successfully obtained in a full-scale municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). The …

Impacts of organics on the microbial ecology of wastewater anammox processes: Recent advances and meta-analysis

R Xiao, BJ Ni, S Liu, H Lu - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) represents a promising technology for
wastewater nitrogen removal. Organics management is critical to achieving efficient and …