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Water Sci Technol ; 75(3-4): 491-500, 2017 02.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28192343

ABSTRACT

The aim of this work is to compare the capability of two recently proposed two-pathway models for predicting nitrous oxide (N2O) production by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) for varying ranges of dissolved oxygen (DO) and nitrite. The first model includes the electron carriers whereas the second model is based on direct coupling of electron donors and acceptors. Simulations are confronted to extensive sets of experiments (43 batches) from different studies with three different microbial systems. Despite their different mathematical structures, both models could well and similarly describe the combined effect of DO and nitrite on N2O production rate and emission factor. The model-predicted contributions for nitrifier denitrification pathway and hydroxylamine pathway also matched well with the available isotopic measurements. Based on sensitivity analysis, calibration procedures are described and discussed for facilitating the future use of those models.


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Ammonia/metabolism , Betaproteobacteria/metabolism , Models, Theoretical , Nitrous Oxide/metabolism , Water Purification/methods , Betaproteobacteria/growth & development , Biomass , Denitrification , Hydroxylamine/chemistry , Nitrites/analysis , Nitrites/metabolism , Nitrous Oxide/analysis , Oxidation-Reduction , Oxygen/analysis , Oxygen/metabolism
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Environ Technol ; 36(21): 2746-54, 2015.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25921951

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The hybrid granular sludge (HGS) formation and its performances on phosphorus removal were investigated in a sequencing batch airlift reactor. Under conditions of low superficial air velocity (SAV = 0.68 cm s(-1)) and relatively long settling time (15-30 min), aerobic granules appeared and coexisted with bio-flocs after 120 days operation. At the stable phase, 54% of total suspended solid (m/m) was granular sludge with the two typical sizes (D(mean) = 1.77 ± 0.33 and 0.89 ± 0.11 mm) in the reactor, where the settling velocity was 98.7 ± 12.4 and 37.8 ± 0.9 m h(-1) for the big and small granules. With progressive extension of anaerobic time from 15 to 60 min before aerobic condition per cycle during the whole experiment, the HGS system can be maintained at a high total phosphorus removal efficiency (ca. 99%) since Day-270. The phosphorus content (wt %) in biomass was respectively 9.54 ± 0.29, 7.60 ± 0.48 and 6.15 ± 0.59 for the big granules, small granules and flocs.


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Bioreactors , Phosphorus/chemistry , Phosphorus/isolation & purification , Sewage/chemistry , Aerobiosis , Anaerobiosis , Biomass , Pressure , Water Purification/methods
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