关键词:
Nitritation
Anammox
Denitrification
C/N ratio
Membrane fouling
摘要:
An experiment was conducted in a membrane bioreactor (MBR) to investigate the start-up, optimization, and membrane fouling behavior of a simultaneous nitritation, anammox, and denitrification (SNAD) process for the treatment of nitrogen-containing organic wastewater. The start-up process of SNAD included three periods: first, anammox flocs were incubated in the bioreactor and enriched using a short hydraulic retention time (HRT) from 24 h to 4.0 h, this treatment enhanced the anammox start-up process, and a nitrogen removal efficiency (NRE) of 82.5% and nitrogen removal rate (NRR) of 0.49 kg/(m(3)d) were achieved. Second, a completely autotrophic nitrogen removal over nitrite (CANON) process that incorporated aerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria (AerAOB) and anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria (AnAOB) was started up through the optimization of intermittent aeration (non-aeration time to aeration time of 4.0:10 min), in this process, the dissolved oxygen (DO) remained in the range of 0.6-0.8 mg/L. Third, the SNAD process was started up by introducing organic carbon (sodium acetate), ammonium removal efficiency (ARE) of 91.2%, NRE of 77.9%, and chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiency (CRE) of 82.4% were achieved at a C/N ratio of 0.5. The SNAD process was further optimized by regulating the C/N ratio. The optimum synergy of the AnAOB, AnAOB, and denitrifying bacteria (DNB) was achieved at a C/N ratio of 1.0, and the ARE, NRE, and CRE were 91.7%, 86.4%, and 85%, respectively. A SNAD mass balance model was established and indicated that the anammox process played a dominant role in nitrogen removal, the contribution of the anammox pathway to nitrogen removal was 64.7%. The membrane fouling rate was reduced due to an increase in the particle size resulting from the increase in the extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) content and the ratio of the protein to carbohydrate concentrations in the EPS (EPSp/EPSc). Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) ana