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Microbial Selection for the Densification of Activated Sludge Treating Variable and High-Strength Industrial Wastewater
This study investigates the densification/granulation of activated sludge with poor settleability, treating real industrial wastewater from a tank truck cleaning company. The wastewater is low in nutrients, acidic in nature, and high and variable in chemical oxygen demand (COD, ranging from 2770 mg·L−1 to 14,050 mg·L−1). A microbial selection strategy was applied to promote slow-growing glycogen-accumulating microorganisms (GAO) by the implementation of an anaerobic feast/aerobic famine strategy in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR). After 60 to 70 days, the uptake of carbon during the anaerobic phase exceeded 80%, the sludge morphology improved, and the sludge volume index (SVI) dropped below 50 mL·g−1. 16S rRNA gene sequencing showed the enrichment of the GAOs Defluviicoccus and Candidatus Competibacter. Stable sludge densification was maintained when using a constant organic loading rate (OLR) of 0.85 ± 0.05 gCOD·(L·d)−1, but the sludge quality deteriorated when switching to a variable OLR. In view of the integration of densified/granular sludge in a membrane bioreactor configuration, the filtration properties of the densified SBR sludge were compared to the seed sludge from the full-scale plant. The densified sludge showed a significantly lower resistance due to pore blockage and a significantly higher sustainable flux (45 vs. 15 L·(m2·h)−1).
Microbial Selection for the Densification of Activated Sludge Treating Variable and High-Strength Industrial Wastewater
This study investigates the densification/granulation of activated sludge with poor settleability, treating real industrial wastewater from a tank truck cleaning company. The wastewater is low in nutrients, acidic in nature, and high and variable in chemical oxygen demand (COD, ranging from 2770 mg·L−1 to 14,050 mg·L−1). A microbial selection strategy was applied to promote slow-growing glycogen-accumulating microorganisms (GAO) by the implementation of an anaerobic feast/aerobic famine strategy in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR). After 60 to 70 days, the uptake of carbon during the anaerobic phase exceeded 80%, the sludge morphology improved, and the sludge volume index (SVI) dropped below 50 mL·g−1. 16S rRNA gene sequencing showed the enrichment of the GAOs Defluviicoccus and Candidatus Competibacter. Stable sludge densification was maintained when using a constant organic loading rate (OLR) of 0.85 ± 0.05 gCOD·(L·d)−1, but the sludge quality deteriorated when switching to a variable OLR. In view of the integration of densified/granular sludge in a membrane bioreactor configuration, the filtration properties of the densified SBR sludge were compared to the seed sludge from the full-scale plant. The densified sludge showed a significantly lower resistance due to pore blockage and a significantly higher sustainable flux (45 vs. 15 L·(m2·h)−1).
Microbial Selection for the Densification of Activated Sludge Treating Variable and High-Strength Industrial Wastewater
Mukhtiar Ahmed (author) / Dorothee Goettert (author) / Catharina Vanherck (author) / Koen Goossens (author) / Jan Dries (author)
2024
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