Phosphorous removal and recovery from urban wastewater: Current practices and new directions

F Di Capua, S de Sario, A Ferraro, A Petrella… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Phosphate rocks are an irreplaceable resource to produce fertilizers, but their availability will
not be enough to meet the increasing demands of agriculture for food production. At the …

Review on fate and mechanism of removal of pharmaceutical pollutants from wastewater using biological approach

B Tiwari, B Sellamuthu, Y Ouarda, P Drogui… - Bioresource …, 2017 - Elsevier
Due to research advancement and discoveries in the field of medical science, maintains and
provides better human health and safer life, which lead to high demand for production of …

Bacterial assembly and temporal dynamics in activated sludge of a full-scale municipal wastewater treatment plant

F Ju, T Zhang - The ISME journal, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Understanding environmental and biological influences on the dynamics of microbial
communities has received great attention in microbial ecology. Here, utilizing large time …

Taxonomic relatedness shapes bacterial assembly in activated sludge of globally distributed wastewater treatment plants

F Ju, Y Xia, F Guo, Z Wang… - Environmental …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Activated sludge (AS), which has been in use for 100 years, has been the most popular
biological process in various wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), in which bacteria plays …

Microbial community structures in different wastewater treatment plants as revealed by 454-pyrosequencing analysis

M Hu, X Wang, X Wen, Y Xia - Bioresource technology, 2012 - Elsevier
In this study, 454-pyrosequencing technology was employed to investigate the microbial
communities in 12 municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWPTs) with different treatment …

Bacterial communities in different sections of a municipal wastewater treatment plant revealed by 16S rDNA 454 pyrosequencing

L Ye, T Zhang - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2013 - Springer
In this study, we successfully demonstrated that 454 pyrosequencing was a powerful
approach for investigating the bacterial communities in the activated sludge, digestion …

Synergistic cooperation between wastewater-born algae and activated sludge for wastewater treatment: influence of algae and sludge inoculation ratios

Y Su, A Mennerich, B Urban - Bioresource technology, 2012 - Elsevier
An algal–bacterial culture, composed of wastewater-born algae and activated sludge, was
cultivated to treat domestic wastewater and accumulate biomass simultaneously. The …

Bisphenols: application, occurrence, safety, and biodegradation mediated by bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants and rivers

M Noszczyńska, Z Piotrowska-Seget - Chemosphere, 2018 - Elsevier
Numerous data indicate that most of bisphenols (BPs) are endocrine disrupters and exhibit
cytotoxicity, neurotoxicity, genotoxicity and reproductive toxicity against vertebrates …

Physicochemical characteristics and microbial community evolution of biofilms during the start-up period in a moving bed biofilm reactor

Y Zhu, Y Zhang, H Ren, J Geng, K Xu, H Huang… - Bioresource …, 2015 - Elsevier
This study aimed to investigate biofilm properties evolution coupled with different ages
during the start-up period in a moving bed biofilm reactor system. Physicochemical …

Analysis of the bacterial community in a laboratory-scale nitrification reactor and a wastewater treatment plant by 454-pyrosequencing

L Ye, MF Shao, T Zhang, AHY Tong, S Lok - Water Research, 2011 - Elsevier
For full understanding of the microbial community in the wastewater treatment bioreactors,
one of the feasible and effective ways is to investigate the massive genetic information …