Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 118, Issue 3, Pages 277-283Publisher
SOC BIOSCIENCE BIOENGINEERING JAPAN
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2014.02.017
Keywords
Nitrification; Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria; Anaerobically digested wastewater; Membrane bioreactor; Biological nitrogen removal
Funding
- Non-profit Research Foundation for Agriculture [201303091]
- China Agriculture Research System [CARS-36]
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A membrane bioreactor (MBR) was developed for the treatment of anaerobically digested swine wastewater and to investigate the effect of ammonium nitrogen concentration on biological nitrogen removal and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) community structures. The MBR achieved a high NH4+-N removal efficiency of 0.08 kgNMLSS(-1)d(-1) and removed 95% of the influent NH4+-N. The TN removal rate was highest of 82.62% at COD/TN and BOD5/TN ratios of 8.76 +/- 030 and 3.02 +/- 0.09, respectively. With the decrease in ammonium nitrogen concentrations, the diversity of the AOB community declined and showed a simple pattern of DGGE. However, the AOB population size remained high, with abundance of 10(7)-10(9) copies mL(-1). With the decrease of ammonium nitrogen concentrations, Nitrosomonas eutropha gradually disappeared, whereas Nitrosomonas sp. OZK11 showed constant adaptability to survive during each treatment stage. The selective effect of ammonium concentration on AOB species could be due to the affinity for NH4+-N. In this study, the changes of ammonium nitrogen concentrations in digested swine wastewater were found to have selective effects on the composition of AOB community, and biological nitrogen removal was improved by optimising the influencing parameters. (c) 2014, The Society for Biotechnology, Japan. All rights reserved.
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