Research of Carbon and Nitrogen Ratio and Sludge Stability in Aerobic Granular Sludge Bioreactor

2012 ◽  
Vol 518-523 ◽  
pp. 473-477
Author(s):  
Xia Zhao ◽  
Hui Xia Feng ◽  
Feng Jiang ◽  
Na Li Chen ◽  
Xiao Chun Wang

In sequencing batch reactor aerobic granular sludge was cultivated, and the influence of influent C/N ratio to aerobic granular sludge was studied. The results showed that the granulation and the settling ability of the sludge were poor in high C/N, however, low C/N was beneficial to the accumulation of microorganism in reactor and MLSS could reach to as high as 8740 mg/L. Lower C/N ratio would lead to increase of particle size and disintegrate of loose structure and overgrowth on filamentous microbe, these were disadvantage of the stability of the system. It was not obvious that influent C/N ratio affected on the organic removal. The COD removal maintained at 87% after the preliminary form particles were formed in reactor. When C/N ratio was 100:15~100:35, the phosphorus removal efficiency was good. If C/N ratio was too high or too low, the formation of sludge granulation would be affected in the process. The influence of C/N ratio to ammonia nitrogen removal efficiency was obvious. While C/N ratio was 100:10, granular sludge had good simultaneous nitrification and denitrification performance, and the average removal of ammonia nitrogen attained to 91%. But low C/N ratio was able to inhibit the activity of nitrifying bacteria and denitrifying bacteria. At that time, ammonia nitrogen removal rate declined sharply in the system.

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Liang ◽  
Xue Li ◽  
Shanshan Wang ◽  
Dawen Gao

A sequencing batch reactor (SBR) was used to study the effect of carbon source (C6H12O6 and CH3COONa) and C/N ratio (C/N=4:1 and C/N=7:1) on the production of nitrous oxide (N2O) in the process of simultaneous nitrifica-tion and denitrification via nitrite (short-cut SND) by aerobic granular sludge and the removal efficiency of nitrogen under low dissolved oxygen (DO). The results showed that short-cut SND occurred in this system, and the removal ef-ficiency of total nitrogen (TN) at C6H12O6 and CH3COONa were 28.93 % and 41.19 %, respectively. However, the production of N2O significantly increased when CH3COONa was used as a carbon source. In addition, the rate of N2O release when CH3COONa was a carbon source was 8.34 times the rate when C6H12O6 was the carbon source. With the increase of C/N, removal rate of TN and the efficiency of the short-cut SND were increased. The removal efficiency of TN at C/N=7:1 was 90.33%, which was 2.19 times at C/N=4:1. The percentage of short-cut SND at C/N=4:1 and C/N=7:1 were 87.47% and 95.97%, respectively. The release rate of N2O from the original 1.14 mg/(g • min) decreased to 0.10 mg/(g • min) after increased the C/N from 4:1 to 7:1.


2013 ◽  
Vol 295-298 ◽  
pp. 1438-1441
Author(s):  
Rui Ling Bao ◽  
Lian Qing Xue ◽  
Xiao Ju Yan ◽  
Shui Li Yu

An aerobic granular sludge sequencing batch reactor was carried out at low temperature (101oC) to understand the characteristics of nitrogen removal. The results indicated that nitrification via nitrite could be achieved with an average nitrosation rate of 97.7%. Influent C/N ratio was an important factor influencing the accumulation of nitrite in the effluent. In the experinment, the reactor exhibited a higher removal efficiency for COD with the effluent concentration of COD ranged from 88.2% to 91.8%. In phase I which C/N ratio was 20:1, effluent concentration of ammonium was about 12.9mg/L with the removal efficiency of 77.0%. As the C/N ratio was reduced to 15:1 and 10:1, the effluent concentration of ammonium was around 0.5 mg/L. At the same time, nitrite in the effluent reached up to 21.0 mg/L when the influent COD concentration was induced from 1120mg/L to 560 mg/L with C/N ratio induced from 20:1 to 10:1, however nitrate concentration was remained around 0.4 mg/L throughout the whole experinment.


2011 ◽  
Vol 356-360 ◽  
pp. 1267-1271
Author(s):  
Feng Jiang ◽  
Yang Li Zhao ◽  
Shuai Fu Chen ◽  
Rui Liang

Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) was cultivated successfully in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR), which has floc sludge as seeding sludge in synthetic wastewater. Removal efficiency in the reactor during the entire working period was investigated. Controlling strategy for filamentous bulking and the effect of a filamentous microorganism on granulation of sludge were discussed. The results showed that whether filamentous bulking occurred or not, there was little impact on the removal rate of phosphorus and ammonia nitrogen, which maintain about 90% and 95%, respectively. Increasing the hydrodynamic shear force has certain effects on the controlling of filamentous bulking. Declining C/N ratio, balancing nutrition in feed water can fundamentally solve the problem of filamentous bulking in the cultivation process of aerobic granular sludge.


2010 ◽  
Vol 113-116 ◽  
pp. 2305-2309
Author(s):  
Jing Xiang Fu ◽  
Yu Lan Tang ◽  
Xing Guan Ma ◽  
Yu Hua Zhao ◽  
Hai Biao Wang

Acclimation of short-cut nitrification aerobic granular sludge with aerobic granular sludge and nitrification sludge as seed sludge in a sequencing batch reactor(SBR) by controlling the pH, influent ammonia concentration, temperature and other conditions. Experimental results showed that the short-cut nitrification aerobic granular sludge with high ammonia and COD removal rate (95%) was formed successfully, and SBR can run long-term stably. DO at 6.0~8.0mg/L when the nitrosation rate remained stable at 50% ~ 60%, and lower DO levels within the reactor (2.0~3.0mg/L) nitrosation rates of up to 90%. Mature short-cut nitrification aerobic granular sludge average diameter of 2~3mm in between, MLSS of up to 10.162g/L, SVI minimum up to 22.63ml/g, moisture content is only 81.93%, total nitrogen removal rate of 40%, and carbon-nitrogen removal capability.


2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 525-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuo Wang ◽  
Qianqian Yang ◽  
Wenxin Shi ◽  
Shuili Yu ◽  
Yan Wang ◽  
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1991 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 940-944 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Sérodes ◽  
E. Walsh ◽  
O. Goulet ◽  
J. de la Noue ◽  
C. Lescelleur

Design criteria of a pilot plant for treating secondary municipal effluents using filamentous, bioflocculating micro-algae were evaluated. Using a sequential batch reactor, the best removal rate of ammonia nitrogen was reached for 25% draw volume; at 20–22 °C, up to four cycles per day could be achieved giving a removal efficiency of approximately 2 g of N per day and per square meter of basin (200 mm deep) with negligible nitrogen residual; increasing the water level by increments of 200 mm (from 200 to 600 mm) increased the N removal efficiency in a way similar to an increase in the number of renewals per day on a 200 mm deep basin. The dominant micro-algae (Chlorhormidium) was heavily influenced by the water temperature. Key words: micro-algae, municipal wastewater, water treatment, ammonia nitrogen, removal rate, removal efficiency.


Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 374
Author(s):  
Hongbo Feng ◽  
Honggang Yang ◽  
Jianlong Sheng ◽  
Zengrui Pan ◽  
Jun Li

Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) with oversized diameter commonly affects its stability and pollutant removal. In order to effectively restrict the particle size of AGS, a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) with a spiny aeration device was put forward. A conventional SBR (R1) and an SBR (R2) with the spiny aeration device treating tannery wastewater were compared in the laboratory. The result indicates that the size of the granular sludge from R2 was smaller than that from R1 with sludge granulation. The spines and air bubbles could effectively restrict the particle size of AGS by collision and abrasion. Nevertheless, there was no significant change in mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS) and the sludge volume index (SVI) in either bioreactors. The removal (%) of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and ammonia nitrogen (NH4+-N) in these two bioreactors did not differ from each other greatly. The analysis of biological composition displays that the proportion of Proteobacteria decreased slightly in R2. The X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis revealed less accumulation of Fe and Ca in smaller granules. Furthermore, a pilot-scale SBR with a spiny aeration device was successfully utilized to restrict the diameter of granules at about 300 μm.


2011 ◽  
Vol 63 (9) ◽  
pp. 1808-1814 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Figueroa ◽  
A. Val del Río ◽  
J. L. Campos ◽  
A. Mosquera-Corral ◽  
R. Méndez

Aerobic granular sludge grown in a sequential batch reactor was proposed as an alternative to anaerobic processes for organic matter and nitrogen removal from swine slurry. Aerobic granulation was achieved with this wastewater after few days from start-up. On day 140 of operation, the granular properties were: 5 mm of average diameter, SVI of 32 mL (g VSS)−1 and density around 55 g VSS (Lgranule)−1. Organic matter removal efficiencies up to 87% and nitrogen removal efficiencies up to 70% were achieved during the treatment of organic and nitrogen loading rates (OLR and NLR) of 4.4 kg COD m−3 d−1 and of 0.83 kg N m−3 d−1, respectively. However, nitrogen removal processes were negatively affected when applied OLR was 7.0 kg COD m−3 d−1 and NLR was 1.26 kg N m−3 d−1. The operational cycle of the reactor was modified by reducing the volumetric exchange ratio from 50 to 6% in order to be able to treat the raw slurry without dilution.


2014 ◽  
Vol 989-994 ◽  
pp. 603-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Yu ◽  
Hai Jiao Yu ◽  
Chen Ci Ma

The experiment uses municipal sewage as the research object and runs SBR reactor in completely aerobic conditions. Through controlling different of DO concentration and COD concentration, we study spreading comparison. The results show that when DO concentration was 1mg/L, the removal effect of aerobic granular sludge process in SBR treating municipal sewage was best, the average removal rate of COD, ammonia nitrogen, total nitrogen and phosphorous was 90.12%,98.95%,87.65% and 83.74% respectively. When COD concentration of influent was about 400mg/L, the treatment effects of aerobic granular sludge for COD, ammonia nitrogen, total nitrogen and phosphorous were all better, the average removal rate was up to 92.33%,98.83%,88.17% and 80.25% respectively.


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