Guihao Han , Xiaoyan Ding , Zhisheng Liu , Gaige Liu , Xiangkun Li
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Abstract
Effluent from thermal hydrolysis pretreatment coupled anaerobic digestion (THP-AD) is characterized by high ammonia nitrogen, chemical oxygen demand (COD), and suspended solids (SS). In this experiment, the results of the CANON process for the treatment of unpretreated THP-AD effluent showed that five-fold dilution and no dilution of THP-AD effluent had serious inhibitory effects on ammonium oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria, while prolongation of the hydraulic retention time (HRT) could mitigate such inhibition caused by five-fold dilution. To alleviate this inhibition, an electrocoagulation combined with membrane filtration pretreatment strategy was developed, and the removal rates of COD and SS were 61.8 % and 100.0 %. The PN/A system achieved 83.5 % total nitrogen removal from the pretreated diluted triple THP-AD effluent, but 44.3 % total nitrogen removal from the pretreated undiluted THP-AD due to inhibition of soluble and refractory COD. Nitrosomonas and Candidatus_Kuenenia were the major AOB and anammox bacteria in the PN and A reactors respectively. The abundance of both groups declined with the increased THP-AD effluent proportion in the feed. Overall, this study provides a guide to develop the energy-efficient PN/A process for THP-AD effluent treatment.
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