Nitritation and denitrifying phosphorus removal via nitrite pathway from domestic wastewater in a continuous MUCT process.

Bioresour Technol

Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Environment Recovery, Department of Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.

Published: September 2013

Nitritation and denitrifying P removal under mode of nitritation and nitrification was investigated in continuous MUCT process treating domestic wastewater. Nitritation was established through short hydraulic retention time to 6 h and low dissolved oxygen concentration of 0.3-0.5 mg/L. Nitritation was stabilized for 95 days with average nitrite accumulation ratio over 90%. Ammonia and total nitrogen removal under nitritation reached 99% and 83%, respectively, much better than complete nitrification. Real-time quantitative PCR assays presented that cell numbers and percentages of ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) population had a clear correlation with nitrite accumulation ratios. The highest percentage of AOB was 13% of total bacterial population. P removal was mainly completed by denitrifying P removal of about 90% occurring in anoxic zone. The P removal efficiency under nitritation was 30% higher than that under complete nitrification. Denitrifying P removal under nitritation was highly beneficial to the treatment of wastewater with limiting carbon source.

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