ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Initial Start-up Characteristics of Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation in a UASB Reactor
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Wenlai Xu 1,3
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State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu , China
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Sichuan Shutong Geotechnical Engineering Company-Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Company, Chengdu, China
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Department of International Environmental and Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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Wenlai Xu   

State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China, China
Submission date: 2019-06-03
Final revision date: 2019-07-25
Acceptance date: 2019-07-25
Online publication date: 2020-02-05
Publication date: 2020-03-31
 
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2020;29(3):2081–2089
 
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Anammox (anaerobic ammonium oxidation) is a promising technology to remove nitrogen from wastewater, but the long start-up time limits its practical application. This study used an up-flow anaerobic sludge bed (UASB) reactor, selected anaerobic granular sludge as inoculating sludge, and maintained pH (7.8-8.2), temperature (30-35°C), and DO (≤0.5 mg L-1) to start an anammox process. The initial start-up process occurred in three stages: cell lysis phase, activity lag phase, activity elevation phase. In the cell lysis (1-2 d) and activity lag (3-4 d) phases, denitrification was the main reaction and TN removal rates were 36.72% and 52.34%, respectively. In the activity elevation phase (5-30 d), denitrification weakened, anammox activity strengthened, NH4+-N removal rate was increased greatly, NO2--N removal rate took on the trend of increasing at first and decreasing later, and the average removal rate of TN rose to 74.33% and reached the maximum rate of 81.91%. The variations of sludge bed in the cell lysis phase and activity lag phase were not obvious; but in the activity elevation phase, the sludge bed gradually varied from the bottom to the top, and the color of the sludge changed from black to brown, and a little sludge was red.
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