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The Stability of Accumulating Nitrite from Swine Wastewater in a Sequencing Batch Reactor

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Shortcut nitrification is the first step of shortcut nitrogen removal from swine wastewater. Stably obtaining an effluent with a significant amount of nitrite is the premise for the subsequent shortcut denitrification. In this paper, the stability of nitrite accumulation was investigated using a 1.5-day hydraulic retention time in a 10-L (working volume) activated sludge sequencing batch reactor (SBR) with an 8-h cycle consisted of 4 h 38 min aerobic feeding, 1 h 22 min aerobic reaction, 30 min settling, 24 min withdrawal, and 1 h 6 min idle. The nitrite production stability was tested using four different ammonium loading rates, 0.075, 0.062, 0.053, and 0.039 g NH4-N/g (mixed liquid suspended solid, MLSS) day in a 2-month running period. The total inorganic nitrogen composition in the effluent was not affected when the ammonium load was between 0.053 and 0.075 g NH4-N/g MLSS · day (64% NO2-N, 16% NO3-N, and 20% NH4-N). Under 0.039 g NH4-N/g MLSS · day, more NO2-N was transformed to NO3-N with an effluent of 60% NO2-N, 20% NO3-N, and 20% NH4-N. The reducing load test was able to show the relationship between a declining free nitrous acid (FNA) concentration and the decreasing nitrite production, indicating that the inhibition of FNA on nitrite oxidizing bacteria depends on its levels and an ammonium loading rate around 0.035 g NH4-N/g MLSS · day is the lower threshold for producing a nitrite dominance effluent in the activated sludge SBR under the current settings.

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Wang, L., Zhu, J. & Miller, C. The Stability of Accumulating Nitrite from Swine Wastewater in a Sequencing Batch Reactor. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 163, 362–372 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12010-010-9044-7

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