Publications by authors named "Zhanwang Zheng"

A low-temperature-tolerant simultaneous nitrification-denitrification bacterial strain of (AKD4) was identified. It showed high efficiency in total nitrogen (TN) removal (92.45% at 10°C and 87.

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Introduction: Issues related to fat, oil, and grease from kitchen waste (KFOG) in lipid-containing wastewater are intensifying globally. We reported a novel denitrifying bacterium CYCN-C with lipid-utilizing activity and high nitrogen-removal efficiency. The aim of the present study was aim to explore the metabolic mechanism of the simultaneous lipid-utilizing and denitrifying bacterium CYCN-C at transcriptome level.

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Biofilms are used widely to remove nitrogen from wastewater; however, most biofilm carriers (i.e. polyurethane foam, PUF) are hydrophobic organic materials with millimetre-scale apertures, ineffective attachment, and unstable colonization of microorganisms.

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  • Aerobic composting of food waste in rural China is costly for the government, prompting a study to explore vermicomposting as a more affordable alternative.
  • The research found that mixing composted food waste with mature cow dung maximized earthworm reproduction rates and improved the physical and chemical properties of earthworm casts, enhancing nutrient content.
  • A unique microbial community characterized by specific bacteria and fungi was identified during vermicomposting, and financial analysis suggested that this method could reduce food waste disposal costs significantly from $57 to $18 per ton.
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Food waste is a potential resource to prepare microbial fertilizer. However, functional microorganisms derived from the food waste compost (FWC) are relatively lacking. We have isolated, identified, characterized and optimized a high-yielding indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) strain from FWC and further evaluated its growth promoting effect on plants.

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The biological process to remove nitrogen in winter effluent is often seriously compromised due to the effect of low temperatures (< 13 °C) on the metabolic activity of microorganisms. In this study, a novel heterotrophic nitrifying-aerobic denitrifying bacterium with cold tolerance was isolated by iterative domestication and named Moraxella sp. LT-01.

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To effectively solve the serious impact of high oil in the kitchen wastewater on the downstream treatment process, an excellent oil-degrading strain Aeromonas allosaccarophila CY-01 was immobilized to prepare Chitosan-Aeromonas pellets (CH-CY01) by using chitosan as a carrier. Oil degradation condition and efficiency of CH-CY01 pellets were assessed. The growth of immobilized CH-CY01 was almost unaffected, and the maximum degradation rate of soybean oil was 89.

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Although numerous denitrifying bacteria have been isolated and characterized, their capacity is seriously compromised by traditional inoculant addition and environmental stress in open bioreactors for wastewater treatment. In this study, a biocompatible material, chitosan, was used as a carrier to immobilize a simultaneously heterotrophic nitrifying-aerobic denitrifying bacterium sp., KSND, for continuous nitrogen removal from domestic wastewater in an open purification tank.

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Here, the draft genome of simultaneous nitrification-denitrification strain (SND) Klebsiella sp. KSND revealed possible existence of genes involved in N-assimilation and -dissimilation pathways. The change levels of genes under defined N-sources were analyzed by Quantitative Real-Time PCR.

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Nitrogen removal performance of a simultaneous heterotrophic nitrifying-aerobic denitrifying (SND) bacterium (KSND) in a purification tank bioreactor (PTBR) amended with two-stage dissolved oxygen (DO) control was investigated. NH-N and total nitrogen (TN) removal efficiencies under aerobic conditions for domestic wastewater treatment were 97.12% and 52.

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In this study, a simultaneously heterotrophic nitrifying-aerobic denitrifying bacterium, designated KSND, was newly isolated from a lake wetland. Its removal efficiencies for 160 mg L ammonium, 105 mg L nitrate, and 8.39 mg L nitrite were 86.

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Much attention has been focused on electrochemically active bacteria (EAB) in the application of bioelectrochemical systems (BESs). Studying the EAB biofilm growth mechanism as well as electron transfer mechanism provides a route to upgrade BES performance. But an effective bacterial growth monitoring method on the biofilm scale is still absent in this field.

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The heterogeneous UV/Fenton process with the appropriate amount of Fe-Mn-Cu-Y as catalyst was developed and various operation conditions for the degradation of phenol were evaluated. The results indicated that by using the heterogeneous UV/Fenton process, the COD(cr) removal rate reached almost 100% for wastewater containing phenol. Compared with the homogeneous process, the developed catalyst could be used at wider pH range in the UV/Fenton process.

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