[Start-up of CANON Process and Short-cut Nitrification in a Pilot-scale MBBR Reactor].

Using a 150 L moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR), with the temperature controlled at 28℃ and high NH-N concentration (average concentration 350 mg·L), inorganic wastewater was used as an influent to start the completely autotrophic nitrogen removal over nitrite (CANON) process. Meanwhile, the flocculent sludge was taken into a 5 L sequencing batch reactor, and the influent NH-N concentration was maintained at 90-200 mg·L for the recovery of short-cut nitrification. The results showed that in the MBBR reactor, when the average hydraulic retention time (HRT) was 12 h, short-cut nitrification and total nitrogen (TN) removal rate were mutually constrained, the average TN removal rate was 38.