Monitoring the stability of aerobic granular sludge using fractal dimension analysis

Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Pavissich ◽  
Nicolás Camus ◽  
José Luis Campos ◽  
Oscar Franchi ◽  
Alba Pedrouso ◽  
...  

Cyclic episodes of granules formation and disintegration took place in two lab-scale aerobic granular sludge sequencing batch reactors, one fed with synthetic wastewater (COD: 0.6 g/L and NH4+-N: 0.06 g/L)...

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-48
Author(s):  
Phuong Thi Thanh Nguyen ◽  
Phuoc Van Nguyen ◽  
Anh Cam Thieu

Aerobic granular sludge has attracted extensive interest of researchers since the 90s due to the advantages of aerobic granules such as good settling ability, high biomass accumulation, being resistant to high loads and being less affected by toxic substances. Studies, however, which have mainly been carried out on synthetic wastewater, cannot fully evaluate the actual ability of aerobic granules. Study on aerobic granular sludge was performed in sequencing batch reactors, using seeding sludge taken from anaerobic sludge and tapioca wastewater as a substrates. After 11 weeks of operation, the granules reached the stable diameter of 2- 3 mm at 3.7 kgCOD/m3.day organic loading rate. At high organic loads, in range of 1.6 - 5 kgCOD/m3.day, granules could treat effectively COD, N, P with performance of 93 – 97%; 65 – 79% and 80 – 95%, respectively.


Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1400
Author(s):  
Bach Van Nguyen ◽  
Xiaojing Yang ◽  
Shota Hirayama ◽  
Jixiang Wang ◽  
Ziwen Zhao ◽  
...  

Heavy metal-containing wastewater with high salinity challenges wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) where the conventional activated sludge process is widely applied. Bioremediation has been proven to be an effective, economical, and eco-friendly technique to remove heavy metals from various wastewaters. The newly developed algal-bacterial aerobic granular sludge (AGS) has emerged as a promising biosorbent for treating wastewater containing heavy metals, especially Cr(VI). In this study, two identical cylindrical sequencing batch reactors (SBRs), i.e., R1 (Control) and R2 (with 1% additional salinity), were used to cultivate algal-bacterial AGS and then to evaluate the effect of salinity on the performance of the two SBRs. The results reflected that less filamentation and a rougher surface could be observed on algal-bacterial AGS when exposed to 1% salinity, which showed little influence on organics removal. However, the removals of total inorganic nitrogen (TIN) and total phosphorus (TP) were noticeably impacted at the 1% salinity condition, and were further decreased with the co-existence of 2 mg/L Cr(VI). The Cr(VI) removal efficiency, on the other hand, was 31–51% by R1 and 28–48% by R2, respectively, indicating that salinity exposure may slightly influence Cr(VI) bioremediation. In addition, salinity exposure stimulated more polysaccharides excretion from algal-bacterial AGS while Cr(VI) exposure promoted proteins excretion.


Author(s):  
Syahira Ibrahim ◽  
Norhaliza Abdul Wahab ◽  
Aznah Nor Anuar ◽  
Mustafa Bob

This paper proposes an improved optimisation of sequencing batch reactors (SBR) for aerobic granular sludge (AGS) at high temperature-low humidity for domestic wastewater treatment using response surface methodology (RSM). The main advantages of RSM are less number of experiment required and suitable for complex process. The sludge from a conventional activated sludge wastewater treatment plant and three sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) were fed with synthetic wastewater. The experiment were carried out at different high temperatures (30, 40 and 50°C) and the formation of AGS for simultaneous organics and nutrients removal were examined in 60 days. RSM is used to model and to optimize the biological parameters for chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total phosphorus removal in SBR system. The simulation results showed that at temperature of 45.33°C give the optimum condition for the total removal of COD and phosphorus, which correspond to performance index R<sup>2</sup> of 0.955 and 0.91, respectively.


2015 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 564-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Margot ◽  
Samuel Lochmatter ◽  
D. A. Barry ◽  
Christof Holliger

Nitrifying wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are more efficient than non-nitrifying WWTPs to remove several micropollutants such as pharmaceuticals and pesticides. This may be related to the activity of nitrifying organisms, such as ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOBs), which could possibly co-metabolically oxidize micropollutants with their ammonia monooxygenase (AMO). The role of AOBs in micropollutant removal was investigated with aerobic granular sludge (AGS), a promising technology for municipal WWTPs. Two identical laboratory-scale AGS sequencing batch reactors (AGS-SBRs) were operated with or without nitrification (inhibition of AMOs) to assess their potential for micropollutant removal. Of the 36 micropollutants studied at 1 μg l−1 in synthetic wastewater, nine were over 80% removed, but 17 were eliminated by less than 20%. Five substances (bisphenol A, naproxen, irgarol, terbutryn and iohexol) were removed better in the reactor with nitrification, probably due to co-oxidation catalysed by AMOs. However, for the removal of all other micropollutants, AOBs did not seem to play a significant role. Many compounds were better removed in aerobic condition, suggesting that aerobic heterotrophic organisms were involved in the degradation. As the AGS-SBRs did not favour the growth of such organisms, their potential for micropollutant removal appeared to be lower than that of conventional nitrifying WWTPs.


2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (19) ◽  
pp. 7006-7018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Weissbrodt ◽  
Guillaume S. Schneiter ◽  
Jean-Marie Fürbringer ◽  
Christof Holliger

2020 ◽  
Vol 255 ◽  
pp. 109850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antônio Ricardo Mendes Barros ◽  
Silvio Luiz de Sousa Rollemberg ◽  
Clara de Amorim de Carvalho ◽  
Ian Holanda Herbster Moura ◽  
Paulo Igor Milen Firmino ◽  
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