An integrative review of granular sludge for the biological removal of nutrients and recalcitrant organic matter from wastewater

MKH Winkler, C Meunier, O Henriet, J Mahillon… - Chemical Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
Granular sludge aggregates are particular types of biofilms that display significantly different
metrics and physical-chemical characteristics than activated sludge flocs. The efficiency of …

The role of nitrite and free nitrous acid (FNA) in wastewater treatment plants

Y Zhou, A Oehmen, M Lim, V Vadivelu, WJ Ng - Water research, 2011 - Elsevier
Nitrite is known to accumulate in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) under certain
environmental conditions. The protonated form of nitrite, free nitrous acid (FNA), has been …

A critical assessment of the microorganisms proposed to be important to enhanced biological phosphorus removal in full-scale wastewater treatment systems

M Stokholm-Bjerregaard, SJ McIlroy… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the microbiology of phosphorus (P) removal is considered essential to
knowledge-based optimization of enhanced biological P removal (EBPR) systems …

[HTML][HTML] Cooperation between Candidatus Competibacter and Candidatus Accumulibacter clade I, in denitrification and phosphate removal processes

FJ Rubio-Rincón, CM Lopez-Vazquez, L Welles… - Water Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Although simultaneous P-removal and nitrate reduction has been observed in laboratory
studies as well as full-scale plants, there are contradictory reports on the ability of PAO I to …

Stable nitrite accumulation and phosphorous removal from nitrate and municipal wastewaters in a combined process of endogenous partial denitrification and …

X Wang, J Zhao, D Yu, G Chen, S Du, J Zhen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, a novel process was developed by combining endogenous partial
denitrification (EPD, NO 3−-N→ NO 2−-N) with denitrifying phosphorus removal (DPR) in an …

The phylogeny, ecology and ecophysiology of the glycogen accumulating organism (GAO) Defluviicoccus in wastewater treatment plants

AM Maszenan, I Bessarab, RBH Williams, S Petrovski… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
This comprehensive review looks critically what is known about members of the genus
Defluviicoccus, an example of a glycogen accumulating organism (GAO), in wastewater …

Microbial communities involved in enhanced biological phosphorus removal from wastewater—a model system in environmental biotechnology

PH Nielsen, AM Saunders, AA Hansen… - Current opinion in …, 2012 - Elsevier
Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) is one of the most advanced and
complicated wastewater treatment processes applied today, and it is becoming increasingly …

Plant-wide modelling of phosphorus transformations in wastewater treatment systems: Impacts of control and operational strategies

K Solon, X Flores-Alsina, CK Mbamba, D Ikumi… - Water Research, 2017 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to report the effects that control/operational strategies may
have on plant-wide phosphorus (P) transformations in wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) …

The impact of aeration on the competition between polyphosphate accumulating organisms and glycogen accumulating organisms

M Carvalheira, A Oehmen, G Carvalho, M Eusébio… - Water research, 2014 - Elsevier
In wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), aeration is the major energetic cost, thus its
minimisation will improve the cost-effectiveness of the process. This study shows that both …

The nature of the carbon source rules the competition between PAO and denitrifiers in systems for simultaneous biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal

J Guerrero, A Guisasola, JA Baeza - Water Research, 2011 - Elsevier
The presence of nitrate in the theoretical anaerobic reactor of a municipal WWTP aiming at
simultaneous C, N and P removal usually leads to Enhanced Biological Phosphorus …