Treatment of swine wastewater in aerobic granular reactors: comparison of different seed granules as factors

doi:10.1007/s11783-015-0823-9

Front. Environ. Sci. Eng.

2015, Vol. 9

Issue (6) : 1139-1148 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-015-0823-9

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Treatment of swine wastewater in aerobic granular reactors: comparison of different seed granules as factors

Lin LIU^1,^2,^3,^*(

),Qiyu YOU¹,Valerie GIBSON¹,Xu HUANG¹,Shaohua CHEN¹,Zhilong YE¹,Chaoxiang LIU^1,^*(

)

1. Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
2. Ningbo Urban Environment Observation and Research Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315000, China
3. State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Microorganism Application and Risk Control, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

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Abstract

The granulation process, physic-chemical properties, pollution removal ability and bacterial communities of aerobic granules with different feed-wastewater (synthetic wastewater, R1; swine wastewater, R2), and the change trend of some parameters of two types of granules in long-term operated reactors treating swine wastewater were investigated in this experiment. The result indicated that aerobic granulation with the synthetic wastewater had a faster rate compared with swine wastewater and that full granulation in R1 and R2 was reached on the 30th day and 39th day, respectively. However, although the feed wastewater also had an obvious effect on the biomass fraction and extracellular polymeric substances of the aerobic granules during the granulation process, these properties remained at a similar level after long-term operation. Moreover, a similar increasing trend could also be observed in terms of the nitrogen removal efficiencies of the aerobic granules in both reactors, and the average specific removal rates of the organics and ammonia nitrogen at the steady-state stage were 35.33 mg·g⁻¹ VSS and 51.46 mg·g⁻¹ VSS for R1, and 35.47 mg·g⁻¹ VSS and 51.72 mg·g⁻¹ VSS for R2, respectively. In addition, a shift in the bacterial diversity occurred in the granulation process, whereas bacterial communities in the aerobic granular reactor were not affected by the seed granules after long-term operation.

Keywords aerobic granules livestock wastewater sequencing batch reactor biological wastewater treatment bacterial community

Corresponding Author(s): Lin LIU,Chaoxiang LIU

Online First Date: 09 November 2015 Issue Date: 23 November 2015

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Lin LIU,Qiyu YOU,Valerie GIBSON, et al. Treatment of swine wastewater in aerobic granular reactors: comparison of different seed granules as factors[J]. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng., 2015, 9(6): 1139-1148.

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Fig.1 Images of aerobic granules in R1 and R2 during phase I (32nd day for R1, 40th day for R2) and phase II (75th day for both reactors)

Fig.2 Scanning electron microscope photographs of aerobic granules during phase I (34th day for R1, 42nd day for R2) and phase II (75th day for both reactors)

Tab.1 Physic-chemical characteristics of aerobic granules in both reactors at the end of each phase. All values include standard error of the measurements, with 3 samples

Fig.3 Operational performance of R1and R2 during phaseII(75 days). (a) COD removal efficiency; (b) ammonia nitrogen removal efficiency; (c) changes in concentration of nitrite and nitrate in effluent; (d) changes in specific rate per cycle of COD and ammonia nitrogen

Fig.4 Classification of dominant bacterial diversity (relative abundance>1%) at phylum, class, order and family level of seed flocculent sludge and aerobic granules in both reactors at the end of phase I and phase II. Component Score Coefficient Matrix of all samples at family level based on the PCA analysis. (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of the article)

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