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Title: The challenges of mainstream deammonification process for municipal used water treatment
Authors: Xu, Guangjing
Zhou, Yan
Yang, Qin
Lee, Zarraz May-Ping
Gu, Jun
Lay, Winson
Cao, Yeshi
Liu, Yu
Keywords: DRNTU::Engineering::Environmental engineering::Water treatment
Issue Date: 2015
Source: Xu, G., Zhou, Y., Yang, Q., Lee, Z. M.-P., Gu, J., Lay, W., et al. (2015). The challenges of mainstream deammonification process for municipal used water treatment. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 99(6), 2485-2490.
Series/Report no.: Applied microbiology and biotechnology
Abstract: The deammonification process combining partial nitritation and anaerobic ammonium oxidation has been considered as a viable option for energy-efficient used water treatment. So far, many full-scale sidestream deammonification plants handling high-ammonia used water have been in successful operation since Anammox bacteria were first discovered in the 1990s. However, large-scale application of this process for treating municipal used water with low ammonia concentration has rarely been reported. Compared to the sidestream deammonification process, the mainstream deammonification process for municipal used water treatment faces three main challenges, i.e., (i) high COD/N ratio leading to denitrifiers outcompeting Anammox bacteria, (ii) numerous difficulties in selective retention of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) over nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB), and (iii) sufficient accumulation of Anammox bacteria. Therefore, this paper attempts to provide a detailed analysis of these challenges and possible solutions towards sustainable mainstream deammonification process.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106360
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38317
ISSN: 0175-7598
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6423-6
Schools: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
Organisations: Public Utilities Board of Singapore
Research Centres: Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute 
Rights: © 2015 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00253-015-6423-6].
Fulltext Permission: open
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