[Effects of Hydraulic Retention Time and Dissolved Oxygen on a CANON Reactor with Haydite as Carrier].

One Completely Autotrophic Nitrogen Removal Over Nitrite ( CANON) reactor with haydite as carrier was investigated to study the effects of different hydraulic retention time ( HRT) and dissolved oxygen (DO) on CANON reactors by seeding sludge from another mature CANON reactor and using synthetic inorganic ammonia-rich waste water as influent. During the experiment, the concentration of influent ammonia nitrogen was basically unchanged, the HRT of the reactor were 9, 7, 5 h in turn and the range of DO was 1.16-3.20 mg x L(-1). The results showed that: (1) When DO was 1.20-1.75 mg x L(-1), despite the increase of DO can improve AOB's activity and matrix mass transfer in the system, NH4(+) -N and TN removal efficiency were still fell with the shortening of HRT for the CANON reactor, especially when DO was higher than 2.50 mg x L(-1), TN removal efficiency dropped sharply; (2) Under the condition that DO was 1.20-1.75 mg x L(-1), with the shortening of HRT, partial nitritation tended to be stable in the CANON process, and when DO was higher than 1.75 mg x L(-1), even if HRT was shorter, partial nitritation was still severely damaged; (3) Under the condition that DO was 1.20-1.75 mg x L(-1) and HRT was 7 h, for the CANON reactor, partial nitritation and total nitrogen removal efficiency kept well. Hydraulic retention time and dissolved oxygen both are important operational parameters for biological wastewater treatment process, which could directly affect the effect of biological treatment and effluent quality, so to choose appropriate hydraulic retention time and dissolved oxygen coordinately is very important to improve the effect of treatment of ammonium-rich wastewater by CANON process.