Weak magnetic field: A powerful strategy to enhance partial nitrification.

Water Res

Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China.

Published: September 2017

Partial nitrification (PN) combined with anaerobic ammonium oxidation process has been recognized as a promising technology for the removal of nitrogenous contaminants from wastewater. This research aimed to investigate the potential of external magnetic field for enhancing the PN process in short and long term laboratory-scale experiments. Different strength magnetic fields (0, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 mT) were evaluated in short-term batch tests and 5 mT magnetic field was found to have better ability to increase the activities of aerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria (AOB) of PN consortium. Long-term effect of magnetic field on PN consortium was studied with 5 mT magnetic field. The results demonstrated that the positive effect of magnetic field on PN process could also be testified at all of the four stages. Furthermore, a decrease of bacterial diversity was noted with the increase of magnetic field strength. Relative abundance of Nitrosomonadaceae decreased significantly (p < 0.01) from 13.9% in R to 12.9% in R and 5.5% in R. Functional genes forecast based on KEGG database indicated that the expressions of functional genes related to signal transduction and cell motility in 5 mT environment were higher expressed compared with no magnetic field addition and high magnetic field addition. The existence of 5 mT magnetic field didn't increase the abundance of AOB but increased the activity of AOB by increasing the rate of free ammonia into the interior of microbial cells. Addition of magnetic field couldn't change the final state of PN process according to the hypothesis proposed in this article. These findings indicated that the weak magnetic field was useful and reliable for the fast start-up of PN process since it was proved as a simple and convenient approach to enhance AOB activity.

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