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Nitrogen Removal Characteristics of Aerobic Denitrifying Bacteria and Their Applications in Nitrogen Oxides Emission Mitigation

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With the acceleration of industrialization and the rapid development of social economy, a large number of industrial and domestic wastewater is produced in China. The discharge of sewage to the receiving water body leads to the deterioration of water environment and poses a great threat to human health. The pollutants in the wastewater mainly include organic matter, heavy metals, and nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. Particularly, the presence of excessive nitrogen and phosphorus in water body could induce eutrophication, resulting in serious ecological environmental problems such as algae bloom, blackwater, dead fish, and so on. In order to deal with the increasingly serious water issues, China has enacted more stringent sewage discharge standards. “Urban sewage treatment plant pollutant discharge standards” (GB18918-2002) will be a discharge standard divided into standard A and standard B, with a higher emission requirement on total nitrogen imposed on standard A. The recently launched “Environmental Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (2014 Revision)” on the sewage enterprises and units has put forward stringent water treatment requirements and regulatory measures. Therefore, it has become focus of research in the field of water pollution control to effectively reduce the nitrogen pollution in the water and develop energy-saving nitrogen removal technology.

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Zheng, M. (2019). Introduction. In: Nitrogen Removal Characteristics of Aerobic Denitrifying Bacteria and Their Applications in Nitrogen Oxides Emission Mitigation. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2432-1_1

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