A 20-year journey of partial nitritation and anammox (PN/A): from sidestream toward mainstream

Z Wang, M Zheng, H Duan, Z Yuan… - Environmental Science & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ana erobic amm onium ox idation (anammox) was discovered as a new microbial reaction in
the late 1990s, which led to the development of an innovative energy-and carbon-efficient …

Nitrite oxidation in wastewater treatment: microbial adaptation and suppression challenges

Z Su, T Liu, J Guo, M Zheng - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Microbial nitrite oxidation is the primary pathway that generates nitrate in wastewater
treatment systems and can be performed by a variety of microbes: namely, nitrite-oxidizing …

Toward energy neutrality: novel wastewater treatment incorporating acidophilic ammonia oxidation

Z Hu, T Liu, Z Wang, J Meng… - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chemically enhanced primary treatment (CEPT) followed by partial nitritation and anammox
(PN/A) and anaerobic digestion (AD) is a promising roadmap to achieve energy-neutral …

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] One-year stable pilot-scale operation demonstrates high flexibility of mainstream anammox application

M Zheng, H Li, H Duan, T Liu, Z Wang, J Zhao, Z Hu… - Water Research X, 2023 - Elsevier
Mainstream nitrogen removal via anammox is widely recognized as a promising wastewater
treatment process. However, its application is challenging at large scale due to unstable …

A successful start-up of an anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) coupled mainstream partial nitritation-anammox (PN/A) system: a pilot-scale study on in-situ …

J Wu, Z Kong, Z Luo, Y Qin, C Rong, T Wang… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
In this pilot-scale study, an innovative mainstream treatment process that couples the
anaerobic membrane reactor (AnMBR) with a one-stage PN/A system was proposed for …

Simultaneous shortcut nitrification and denitrification in a hybrid membrane aerated biofilms reactor (H-MBfR) for nitrogen removal from low COD/N wastewater

M Chang, B Liang, K Zhang, Y Wang, D Jin, Q Zhang… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The residues of nitrogen contaminants due to insufficient organic carbon sources in sewage
has always been the main problem faced by wastewater treatment plants in the process of …

Selective Enrichment of Comammox Nitrospira in a Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor with Sufficient Oxygen Supply

J Zhao, M Zheng, Z Su, T Liu, J Li, J Guo… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
The recent discovery of comammox (complete ammonia oxidation) Nitrospira has upended
the long-held nitrification paradigm. Although comammox Nitrospira have been identified in …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges of suppressing nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in membrane aerated biofilm reactors by low dissolved oxygen control

Y Lu, T Liu, C Niu, H Duan, M Zheng, S Hu, Z Yuan… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) and shortcut nitrogen removal are two types of
solutions to reduce energy consumption in wastewater treatment, with the former improving …

Sustainable upgrading of biological municipal wastewater treatment based on anammox: From microbial understanding to engineering application

Q Zhao, Y Peng, J Li, R Gao, T Jia, L Deng… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) has drawn increasing attention as a promising
option to energy-neutral wastewater treatment. While anammox process still faces …