Impact on nitrifiers of full-scale bioaugmentation

Nitrifiers are the slowest growing bacteria used in conventional biological wastewater treatment. Furthermore, their growth rate is seriously hampered by low temperature. As a result, the volume needed for nitrification dominates the volume of the biological reactors at a wastewater treatment plant....

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Publié dans:Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research. - 1986. - 76(2017), 11-12 vom: 22. Dez., Seite 3079-3085
Auteur principal: Stenström, F (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: la Cour Jansen, J
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2017
Accès à la collection:Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Sujets:Journal Article RNA, Ribosomal, 16S Sewage Waste Water Water Pollutants, Chemical
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Résumé:Nitrifiers are the slowest growing bacteria used in conventional biological wastewater treatment. Furthermore, their growth rate is seriously hampered by low temperature. As a result, the volume needed for nitrification dominates the volume of the biological reactors at a wastewater treatment plant. As a way of enhancing nitrification and reducing this volume, bioaugmentation can be used. Nitrifiers from a side-stream plant can be inoculated to the mainstream process, which is thereby boosted. The effect of bioaugmentation can be measured in different ways. This full-scale study focuses on the effect of bioaugmentation from a microbial point of view by using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. The study reveals how bioaugmentation increases the diversity of nitrifiers in the mainstream process and in the side-stream plant; that the abundance of nitrifiers is increased in the mainstream process; the interaction between nitrifiers from the side-stream plant and mainstream process; and the effect of bioaugmentation on nitrifying genera and species over time. To our knowledge, this detailed microbial information on nitrifying species during a full-scale bioaugmentation study has not been presented before
Description:Date Completed 03.05.2018
Date Revised 07.12.2022
published: Print
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:0273-1223
DOI:10.2166/wst.2017.480