Nitrification performance of nitrifying bacteria immobilized in waterbornepolyurethane at low ammonia nitrogen concentrations
Yamei Dong , Zhenjia Zhang , Yongwei Jin , Zhirong Li , Jian Lu
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Received March 23, 2010,Revised May 21, 2010, Accepted , Available online
Volume 23,2011,Pages 366-371
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Suspended and waterborne polyurethane immobilized nitrifying bacteria have been adopted for evaluating the e ects of environmental
changes, such as temperature, dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration and pH, on nitrification characteristics under conditions
of low ammonia concentrations. The results showed that nitrification was prone to complete with increasing pH, DO and temperature.
Sensitivity analysis demonstrated the e ects of temperature and pH on nitrification feature of suspended bacteria were slightly greater
than those of immobilized nitrifying bacteria. Immobilized cells could achieve complete nitrification at low ammonia concentrations
when DO was su cient. Continuous experiments were carried out to discuss the removal of ammonia nitrogen from synthetic micropollute
source water with the ammonia concentration of about 1 mg/L using immobilized nitrifying bacteria pellets in an up-flow inner
circulation reactor under di erent hydraulic retention times (HRT). The continuous removal rate remains above 80% even under HRT
30 min. The results verified that the waterborne polyurethane immobilized nitrifying bacteria pellets had great potential applications
for micro-pollution source water treatment.
