Elemental sulfur as electron donor and/or acceptor: Mechanisms, applications and perspectives for biological water and wastewater treatment

L Zhang, YY Qiu, Y Zhou, GH Chen… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Biochemical oxidation and reduction are the principle of biological water and wastewater
treatment, in which electron donor and/or acceptor shall be provided. Elemental sulfur (S 0) …

Advances in elemental sulfur-driven bioprocesses for wastewater treatment: From metabolic study to application

G Guo, Z Li, L Chen, Q Ling, F Zan, H Isawi, T Hao… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Elemental sulfur (S 0) is known to be an abundant, non-toxic material with a wide range of
redox states (-2 to+ 6) and may serve as an excellent electron carrier in wastewater …

Denitrification with non-organic electron donor for treating low C/N ratio wastewaters

T Tian, HQ Yu - Bioresource Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Denitrification with non-organic electron donors for treating low C/N ratio wastewater has
attracted growing interests. Hydrogen, reduced sulfur compounds and ferrous ions are …

Overlooked pathways of denitrification in a sulfur-based denitrification system with organic supplementation

YY Qiu, L Zhang, X Mu, G Li, X Guan, J Hong, F Jiang - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Elemental sulfur-driven autotrophic denitrification (SADN) is a cost-effective approach for
treating secondary effluent from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Additional organics …

Coupled sulfur and iron (II) carbonate-driven autotrophic denitrification for significantly enhanced nitrate removal

T Zhu, H Cheng, L Yang, S Su, H Wang… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Sulfur-based denitrification process has attracted increasing attentions because it does not
rely on the external addition of organics and avoids the risk of COD exceeding the limit …

Autotrophic vanadium (V) bioreduction in groundwater by elemental sulfur and zerovalent iron

B Zhang, R Qiu, L Lu, X Chen, C He… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Vanadium (V) is an emerging contaminant in groundwater that can adversely affect human
health. Although bioremediation has been shown effective, little is known on autotrophic V …

Elemental sulfur-driven autotrophic denitrification process for effective removal of nitrate in mariculture wastewater: Performance, kinetics and microbial community

L Wang, J Liu, Y Li, Z Liu, L Zhang, H Che, H Cui… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
To date, there is a lack of systematic investigation on the elemental sulfur-driven autotrophic
denitrification (SDAD) process for removing nitrate (NO 3−-N) from mariculture wastewater …

Achieving a novel polysulfide-involved sulfur-based autotrophic denitrificationprocess for high-rate nitrogen removal in elemental sulfur-packed bed reactors

YY Qiu, X Gong, L Zhang, S Zhou, G Li… - ACS ES&T …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Elemental sulfur-driven autotrophic denitrification (SADN) process is becoming a promising
and cost-effective process for treating low C/N ratio wastewaters. However, the low …

Nitrous oxide emissions from biofilm processes for wastewater treatment

F Sabba, A Terada, G Wells, BF Smets… - Applied Microbiology and …, 2018 - Springer
This paper discusses the microbial basis and the latest research on nitrous oxide (N 2 O)
emissions from biofilms processes for wastewater treatment. Conditions that generally …

Electron distribution in sulfur-driven autotrophic denitrification under different electron donor and acceptor feeding schemes

AS Oberoi, H Huang, SK Khanal, L Sun, H Lu - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Sulfur-driven autotrophic denitrification (SdAD) represents an effective alternative to
heterotrophic denitrification process for the treatment of organic carbon deficient or organic …