Contrast experimental study on the cultivation mode of denitrifying phosphorus removal granules
- Received Date: 04/12/2008
- Accepted Date: 13/11/2008
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Key words:
- denitrifying phosphorus removal /
- aerobic granules /
- SBAR /
- DPAOs
Abstract: Two same SBARs (sequencing batch airlifting reactors) were used to study the cultivation mode of the denitrifying phosphorus removal granules. R1 was operated under the A/O/A (anaerobic/oxic/anoxic) mode all along, enriching DPAOs (denitrifying phosphorusaccumulating organisms) with the granulation process; while R2 was operated under the A/O (anaerobic/oxic) mode firstly, then added an anoxic phase when granulation finished in order to form A/O/A mode also and strengthen the enrichment of DPAOs. It was shown that R2 took shorter time for granulation than R1, but granular settling velocity and specific gravity in R2 (30.4 m/h and 1.022 g/cm3) were lower than that of R1 (35.9 m/h and 1.061 g/cm3). The average removal efficiencies of COD,NH+4-N,TN,TP in R1 were 86%, 98%, 82% and 91% respectively. In comparison, the corresponding values in R2 were 86%, 99%, 74% and 66% respectively, which were lower than that of R1. From the results of day 183, it was indicated that DPAOs fraction in R1 and R2 were 44.7% and 20.9%.