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BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 680-685Publisher
KOREAN SOC BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOENGINEERING
DOI: 10.1007/s12257-009-0026-y
Keywords
anaerobic ammonia oxidation; autotrophic iron reduction; heterotrophic iron reduction; competition for ferric iron; piggery wastewater
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- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Korea
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2008-2000653] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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The oxidation of ammonia coupled with the reduction of iron is a unique pathway mostly reported in soils and sediments. An anaerobic sludge from a piggery wastewater treatment plant had been acclimated to an NH4+/Fe3+-rich environment to secure an enrichment culture and investigate an anaerobic ammonia oxidation coupled with an iron reduction. The enrichment culture showed an average pH of 6.8 and the concentration of mixed liquor volatile suspended solid was measured as 1,120 mg/L. The mol ratio of oxidized NH4+ and reduced Fe3+ was 0.33 mol NH4+/Mol Fe-l. It was suggested that the culture acclimated to NH4+/Fe3+ contained the anaerobic ammonia oxidizing bacteria as well and thus NH4+ was fully oxidized to NO3- by the bacterial consortia. In a batch experiment using the culture, the oxidation of NH4+ was increased as the initial concentration increased. However, it was suspected from the experimental results that other iron reducing bacteria had grown under the environment applied for the enrichment culture. As a result, it was observed that heterotrophic and autotrophic iron reducers were competing for Fe3+. (C) KSBB
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