Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 352, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127116
Keywords
Wastewater treatment; Microalgae-bacteria consortia; Activated sludge; Respirometry; Mathematical modelling; Kinetics
Funding
- Fondazione CARIPLO
- EU H2020 Framework Programme (project: PRODIGIO) [101007006]
- Spanish Ministry of Education [FPU16/05996]
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This study proposed a respirometric procedure to estimate bacterial kinetics in both activated sludge and algae-bacteria consortia under different conditions. The results showed that bacteria in algae-bacteria consortia had a wider range of adaptability compared to activated sludge, indicating that typical activated sludge parameters may be inadequate for modeling algae-bacteria systems.
Algae-bacteria (AB) consortia can be exploited for effective wastewater treatment, based on photosynthetic oxygenation to reduce energy requirements for aeration. While algal kinetics have been extensively evaluated, bacterial kinetics in AB systems are still based on parameters taken from the activated sludge models, lacking an experimental validation for AB consortia. A respirometric procedure was therefore proposed, to estimate bacterial kinetics in both activated sludge and AB, under different conditions of temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, and substrate availability. Bacterial activities were differently influenced by operational/environmental conditions, suggesting that the adoption of typical activated sludge parameters could be inadequate for AB modelling. Indeed, respirometric results show that bacteria in AB consortia were adapted to a wider range of conditions, compared to activated sludge, confirming that a dedicated calibration of bacterial kinetics is essential for effectively modelling AB systems, and respirometry was proven to be a powerful and reliable tool to this purpose.
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