A review of ammonia removal using a biofilm-based reactor and its challenges

M Zulkifli, HA Hasan, SRS Abdullah… - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Extensive growth of industries leads to uncontrolled ammonia releases to environment. This
can result in significant degradation of the aquatic ecology as well as significant health …

Extracellular polymeric substances trigger microbial immigration from partial denitrification (PD) to anammox biofilms in a long-term operated PD/anammox process in …

L Yu, Q Zhang, R Li, B Qiao, Z Wang, L Zheng, D Peng - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The immigration of microbial communities in a synergistic partial denitrification/anammox
(SPDA) system was investigated in a moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) inoculated with …

AHLs-mediated quorum sensing threshold and its response towards initial adhesion of wastewater biofilms

J Wang, Q Liu, D Dong, H Hu, B Wu, H Ren - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Quorum sensing (QS) plays a crucial role during initial biofilm formation, however the QS
threshold and the response of biofilm formation towards N-acyl-homoserine lactones (AHLs) …

Ecological linkages between a biofilm ecosystem and reactor performance: the specificity of biofilm development phases

S Yuan, R Xu, D Wang, Q Lin, S Zhou… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In biofilm-based engineered ecosystems, the reactor performance was closely linked to
interspecies interactions within a biofilm ecosystem, whereas the ecological processes …

[HTML][HTML] Removal of organic micropollutants from municipal wastewater by aerobic granular sludge and conventional activated sludge

C Burzio, J Ekholm, O Modin, P Falås, O Svahn… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Removal performances of organic micropollutants by conventional activated sludge (CAS)
and aerobic granular sludge (AGS) were investigated at a full-scale wastewater treatment …

Micropollutants removal in tertiary moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBRs): Contribution of the biofilm and suspended biomass

SM Abtahi, M Petermann, AJ Flambard… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
The performance of tertiary moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBRs) was evaluated in terms of
micropollutants (MPs) removal from secondary-treated municipal wastewater. After stepwise …

Anammox attachment and biofilm development on surface-modified carriers with planktonic-and biofilm-based inoculation

X Tian, A Schopf, B Amaral-Stewart… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study investigates the kinetics, attachment, biofilm development and anammox bacteria
enrichment of a novel detached anammox biofilm inoculation method on non-modified virgin …

Metagenomic insights into the effects of various biocarriers on moving bed biofilm reactors for municipal wastewater treatment

L Zhu, H Yuan, Z Shi, L Deng, Z Yu, Y Li… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Preferable biocarrier is vital for start-up and operation of moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR).
Effects of three separate biocarriers-PPC, PU, and PP on MBBRs were systematically …

Research progress of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (Anammox) process based on integrated fixed‐film activated sludge (IFAS)

G Li, Y Yu, X Li, H Jia, X Ma… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The integrated fixed‐film activated sludge (IFAS) process is considered one of the cutting‐
edge solutions to the traditional wastewater treatment challenges, allowing suspended …

Carrier surface modification for enhanced attachment and growth of anammox biofilm

X Tian, A Schopf, B Amaral-Stewart… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study investigates and compares the ammonia removal kinetics, attachment, biofilm
development and anammox bacteria enrichment on various surface modified carriers …