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High-Rate Biological Denitrification in the Cyclic Rotating-Bed Biological Reactor: Effect of Cod/No3-, Nitrate Concentration and Salinity and the Phylogenetic Analysis of Denitrifiers Publisher Pubmed



Jafari SJ1 ; Moussavi G1 ; Yaghmaeian K2, 3
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  1. 1. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
  2. 2. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  3. 3. Center for Water Quality Research, Institute for Environmental Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Source: Bioresource Technology Published:2015


Abstract

The effects of COD/NO3- ratio, nitrate concentration and salinity was tested on the performance of the CRBR in denitrification with catechol as carbon source. The maximum nitrate reduction attained at COD/NO3- ratio of 1. The CRBR operated at optimum COD/NO3- ratio could completely denitrify the nitrate at inlet concentration up to 1250. mg/L without nitrite accumulation. The maximum denitrification rate in the CRBR was 3.56kgNO3-/m3d with a nitrate reduction efficiency of 99% when the bioreactor was operated at inlet nitrate loading rate of 3.6kgNO3-/m3d. The denitrification performance of the CRBR was not affected significantly by NaCl concentrations up to 20. g/L. 16S rRNA fragment and phylogenetic analysis identified Pseudomonas resinovorans, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Bacillus cereus as the most abundant denitrifiers in biomass. Accordingly, the CRBR is a high-rate bioreactor and appropriate technology for treatment of nitrate-laden industrial wastewaters containing phenolic compounds and salinity. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
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