search
for
 About Bioline  All Journals  Testimonials  Membership  News


International Journal of Environment Science and Technology
Center for Environment and Energy Research and Studies (CEERS)
ISSN: 1735-1472
EISSN: 1735-1472
Vol. 11, No. 2, 2014, pp. 281-292
Bioline Code: st14029
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge

International Journal of Environment Science and Technology, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2014, pp. 281-292

 en Start-up of halophilic nitrogen removal via nitrite from hypersaline wastewater by estuarine sediments in sequencing batch reactor
Cui, Y. W.; Ding, J. R.; Ji, S. Y. & Peng, Y. Z.

Abstract

Nitrogen removal from hypersaline wastewater was successfully started up by inoculating estuarine sediments for 140 days. Efficient ammonia and total nitrogen removal was sustained under specific ammonia loading of 0.016–0.139 kg N/[kg VSS day] in a sequencing batch reactor. Stable nitrite accumulation was observed during nitrification. The specific ammonia consumption rate was higher than the value of freshwater activated sludge and saltacclimated freshwater activated sludge. With methanol as carbon source, specific nitrite reduction rate of halophilic denitrifiers was much less than the freshwater counterpart. Halophilic activated sludge was characterized as good settling and flocculation prosperity with small floc size and netlike sludge structure. The abundance of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria outnumbered ammonia-oxidizing archaeas in both estuarine sediments and the activated sludge. Nitrifier population was dominated by the halophilic members of genus Nitrosomonas check for this species in other resources . This study demonstrated the application of mixed halophilic consortia for efficient nitrogen removal, overcoming the limits and difficulties of applying freshwater bacteria for saline wastewater treatment.

Keywords
Halophilic sludge; Nitrite accumulation; Nitrifier population; Salinity; Short-cut nitrification

 
© International Journal of Environment Science and Technology
Alternative site location: http://www.ijest.org

Home Faq Resources Email Bioline
© Bioline International, 1989 - 2024, Site last up-dated on 01-Sep-2022.
Site created and maintained by the Reference Center on Environmental Information, CRIA, Brazil
System hosted by the Google Cloud Platform, GCP, Brazil