Analysis of nitrous oxide emissions from aerobic granular sludge treating high saline municipal wastewater.

Conventional activated sludge (CAS)-based wastewater treatment processes have the potential to emit high concentrations of nitrous oxide (NO) during nitrification and denitrification, which can significantly impact the environmental performance and carbon footprint of wastewater treatment operations. While NO emissions from CAS have been extensively studied, there is little knowledge of NO emissions from aerobic granular sludge (AGS) which is now an increasingly popular secondary treatment alternative. The NO emissions performance of AGS needs to be investigated to ensure that the positive benefits of AGS, such as increased capacity and stable nutrient removal, are not offset by higher emissions.

Radical Functionalization of Unsaturated Amino Acids: Synthesis of Side-Chain-Fluorinated, Azido-Substituted, and Hydroxylated Amino Acids.

A range of enantiomerically pure protected side-chain-fluorinated amino acids has been prepared (13 examples) by treatment of protected amino acids containing unsaturated side chains with a combination of Fe(III)/NaBH and Selectfluor. The modification of the conditions by replacement of Selectfluor with NaN allowed the preparation of side-chain azido-substituted amino acids (five examples), which upon catalytic hydrogenation gave the corresponding amines, isolated as lactams (four examples). Radical hydration of the unsaturated side chains leading to side-chain-hydroxylated protected amino acids has also been demonstrated.

Comparing the performance of aerobic granular sludge versus conventional activated sludge for microbial log removal and effluent quality: Implications for water reuse.

The application of aerobic granular sludge (AGS) technology has increased in popularity, largely due to the smaller physical footprint, enhanced biological nutrient removal performance and ability to perform with a more stable operation when compared to conventional activated sludge (CAS) systems. To date, the ability of AGS to remove microbial pathogens such as; Escherichia coli, Giardia, and Cryptosporidium has not been reported. This study compared the log removal performance of commonly used pathogen surrogates (sulfite-reducing clostridia spores, f-RNA bacteriophage, E.

Ecology and performance of aerobic granular sludge treating high-saline municipal wastewater.

The successful development of aerobic granular sludge (AGS) for secondary wastewater treatment has been linked to a dedicated anaerobic feeding phase, which enables key microbes such as poly-phosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs) and glycogen-accumulating organisms to gain a competitive advantage over floc-forming organisms. The application of AGS to treat high-saline sewage and its subsequent impacts on microbial ecology, however, are less well understood. In this study, the impacts of high-saline sewage on AGS development, performance and ecology were investigated using molecular microbiology methods.