A 20-year journey of partial nitritation and anammox (PN/A): from sidestream toward mainstream

Z Wang, M Zheng, H Duan, Z Yuan… - Environmental Science & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ana erobic amm onium ox idation (anammox) was discovered as a new microbial reaction in
the late 1990s, which led to the development of an innovative energy-and carbon-efficient …

Novel insights into Anammox-based processes: A critical review

P Wu, J Chen, VK Garlapati, X Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Anammox has been globally accepted as the most promising sewage treatment process.
However, the full-scale application of theanammox process islimited because anammox …

Feasibility of partial-denitrification/anammox for pharmaceutical wastewater treatment in a hybrid biofilm reactor

J Zhang, Y Peng, X Li, R Du - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Biological nitrogen removal from pharmaceutical wastewater has drawn increasing attention
due to biotoxicity and inhibition. In this study, for the first time, a novel approach integrating …

Sustainable nitrogen removal in anammox-mediated systems: Microbial metabolic pathways, operational conditions and mathematical modelling

HE Al-Hazmi, X Lu, D Grubba, J Majtacz… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Anammox-mediated systems have attracted considerable attention as alternative cost-
effective technologies for sustainable nitrogen (N) removal from wastewater. This review …

A review of anammox-based nitrogen removal technology: From microbial diversity to engineering applications

ZQ Ren, H Wang, LG Zhang, XN Du, BC Huang… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
The anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) process has the advantages of high
efficiency and low energy consumption, so it has broad application prospects in biological …

Methanotrophs: discoveries, environmental relevance, and a perspective on current and future applications

S Guerrero-Cruz, A Vaksmaa, MA Horn… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Methane is the final product of the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter. The
conversion of organic matter to methane (methanogenesis) as a mechanism for energy …

Mainstream partial nitritation–anammox in municipal wastewater treatment: status, bottlenecks, and further studies

Y Cao, MCM van Loosdrecht, GT Daigger - Applied microbiology and …, 2017 - Springer
Driven by energy neutral/positive of wastewater treatment plants, significant efforts have
been made on the research and development of mainstream partial nitritation and anaerobic …

Characterization of stratified EPS and their role in the initial adhesion of anammox consortia

W Wang, Y Yan, Y Zhao, Q Shi, Y Wang - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Anammox bacteria tend to self-aggregate, and biofilm-based anammox processes are
widely used as sustainable alternative methods for nitrogen removal from wastewater …

Performance and microbial community analysis of a novel DEAMOX based on partial-denitrification and anammox treating ammonia and nitrate wastewaters

R Du, S Cao, B Li, M Niu, S Wang, Y Peng - Water Research, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, a novel DEAMOX (DEnitrifying AMmonium O**dation) process coupling
anammox with partial-denitrification generated nitrite (NO 2−-N) from nitrate (NO 3−-N) was …

Heavy metal biosorption by Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS) recovered from anammox granular sludge

B Pagliaccia, E Carretti, M Severi, D Berti… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
The recovery and conversion of Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS) from sewage
sludge into bio-based commodities might improve the economics and environmental …