Microbial ecology of drinking water from source to tap

L Abkar, HS Moghaddam, SJ Fowler - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
As drinking water travels from its source, through various treatment processes, hundreds to
thousands of kilometres of distribution network pipes, to the taps in private homes and public …

Dominance of comammox Nitrospira in soil nitrification

J Hu, Y Zhao, X Yao, J Wang, P Zheng, C Xi… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The first and limiting step of nitrification is catalyzed by ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA)
and bacteria (AOB). Recently, complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox Nitrospira) have …

Applications of autotrophic ammonia oxidizers in bio-geochemical cycles

D Rajput, A Baldia, A Kumar, V Kumar… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nitrogen is essential for life and to produce food. Still, nitrogen loss of the unused nitrogen in
wastewater, air, freshwater, and oceans has caused nitrogen pollution, which impacts the …

Niche adaptation strategies of different clades of comammox Nitrospira in the Yangtze Estuary

D Sun, M Zhao, X Tang, M Liu, L Hou, Q Zhao… - International …, 2021 - Elsevier
The discovery of complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox) changed the conventional view
of the previously known two-step process of nitrification. Comammox Nitrospira that can …

Biofilm: A strategy for the dominance of comammox Nitrospira

Y Zhao, J Wang, Z Liu, W Yang, J Hu, Z Jia… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
The discovery of a complete ammonia oxidizer (comammox Nitrospira) challenged the
traditional theory of two step nitrification. Comammox Nitrospira co-occurred and competed …

Comammox Nitrospira was the dominant ammonia oxidizer in an acidic biofilm reactor at pH 5.5 and pH 5

Q Li, M Takahashi, K Enobi, K Shimizu… - Applied Microbiology …, 2024 - Springer
Nitrification is a vital process in the biological removal of inorganic nitrogen compounds. In
order to ensure the stability and effectiveness of this process, buffer solutions should be …

Optical-switch-enabled microfluidics for sensitive multichannel colorimetric analysis

J Tang, X Cao, G Qiu, A deMello, J Wang - Analytical Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
The implementation of colorimetric analysis within microfluidic environments engenders
significant benefits with respect to reduced sample and reagent consumption, system …

Ammonia-oxidizing microbes and biological ammonia removal in drinking water treatment

X Luo, T Shen, C Guan, N Li, J Jiang - Environmental Science: Water …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Ammonia, a common inorganic pollutant in drinking water sources, can lead to formation of
disinfection byproducts during chlorination and bacteria regrowth in water distribution …

Abundance, diversity, and community structure of comammox cladeA in sediments of China's offshore continental shelf

S Liu, M Xu, M Zheng, H Liu, S Kuang, H Chen… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nitrification is an important link for environmental nitrogen cycling, the appearance of
comammox updates our traditional cognition about nitrification. Yet comammox has been …

Efficient nitrogen removal from onsite wastewater by a novel continuous flow biofilter

S Chen, M Wang, FM Russo, CJ Gobler, X Mao - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil-based passive biofiltration system is an economically feasible technology for nitrogen
removal from onsite wastewater. However, the conventional design requires a large system …