Effect of calcium addition on the formation and maintenance of aerobic granular sludge (AGS) in simultaneous fill/draw mode sequencing batch reactors (SBRs)

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

卷:255

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Mendes Barros, Antonio Ricardo¹  de Sousa Rollemberg, Silvio Luiz¹  de Carvalho, Clara de Amorim¹  Herbster Moura, Ian Holanda¹  Milen Firmino, Paulo Igor¹  dos Santos, Andre Bezerra¹ 

[1] Univ Fed Ceara, Dept Hydraul & Environm Engn, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

关键词: Aerobic granular sludge;    Simultaneous fill/draw mode SBR;    Calcium addition;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109850

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

This work investigated the effect of Ca2+ (100 mg L-1) addition on the formation and maintenance of aerobic granular sludge in a simultaneous fill/draw mode sequencing batch reactor (SBR), operated with a low liquid upflow velocity (0.92 m h(-1)), in order to verify if Ca2+ presence compensates the low selection pressure imposed. Additionally, carbon and nutrients removals, granules characteristics and microbial community were evaluated. For this, two SBRs (R1, control, and R2, Ca2+-supplemented) were operated (6-h cycle). In general, Ca2+ supplementation affected positively the sludge settleability, although a larger fraction of inert solids was found in the granules. The total extracellular polymeric substances were the same for both reactors, and no remarkable differences were observed between their polysaccharides and proteins contents. Overall, Ca2+ addition in a simultaneous fill/draw mode SBR neither accelerated the granule formation nor improved the operational performance. The microbial community structure, especially in terms of bioactivity, was not affected as well. Therefore, the effect of divalent cations might be more pronounced in conventional SBRs, in which the selection pressure is higher.

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