Recent advances in nitrogen removal from landfill leachate using biological treatments–A review

L Miao, G Yang, T Tao, Y Peng - Journal of environmental management, 2019 - Elsevier
Landfill leachate, generated from the wastes in a landfill, is a type of wastewater with high
concentrations of ammonia and organics, causing a serious environmental pollution …

Recent advances in partial denitrification-anaerobic ammonium oxidation process for mainstream municipal wastewater treatment

H Chen, Z Tu, S Wu, G Yu, C Du, H Wang, E Yang… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
To solve the bottleneck of the unstable accumulation of nitrite in the partial nitrification (PN)-
anammox (AMX) in municipal wastewater treatment, a novel process called partial …

Complete nitrification by a single microorganism

MAHJ Van Kessel, DR Speth, M Albertsen, PH Nielsen… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Nitrification is a two-step process where ammonia is first oxidized to nitrite by ammonia-
oxidizing bacteria and/or archaea, and subsequently to nitrate by nitrite-oxidizing bacteria …

Successful operation performance and syntrophic micro-granule in partial nitritation and anammox reactor treating low-strength ammonia wastewater

R Chen, J Ji, Y Chen, Y Takemura, Y Liu, K Kubota… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
The stable operation of the partial nitritation and anammox (PN/A) process is a challenge in
the treatment of low-strength ammonia wastewater like sewage mainstream. This study …

Molecular mechanism of anaerobic ammonium oxidation

B Kartal, WJ Maalcke, NM De Almeida, I Cirpus… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Two distinct microbial processes, denitrification and anaerobic ammonium oxidation
(anammox), are responsible for the release of fixed nitrogen as dinitrogen gas (N2) to the …

[PDF][PDF] A threshold selection method from gray-level histograms

N Otsu - Automatica, 1975 - dspace.tul.cz
Summary 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes for eubacteria (EUB338), ammonium-
oxidizing bacteria (Nsm156) and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (Nb1000) were used for the rapid …

Marine microorganisms and global nutrient cycles

KR Arrigo - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
The way that nutrients cycle through atmospheric, terrestrial, oceanic and associated biotic
reservoirs can constrain rates of biological production and help structure ecosystems on …

Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria: a model for molecular microbial ecology

GA Kowalchuk, JR Stephen - Annual Reviews in Microbiology, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The eutrophication of many ecosystems in recent decades has led to an increased
interest in the ecology of nitrogen transformation. Chemolitho-autotrophic ammonia …

Anammox bacteria: from discovery to application

JG Kuenen - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2008 - nature.com
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria, which were discovered in waste-water
sludge in the early 1990s, have the unique metabolic ability to combine ammonium and …

Startup of reactors for anoxic ammonium oxidation: experiences from the first full-scale anammox reactor in Rotterdam

WRL Van der Star, WR Abma, D Blommers, JW Mulder… - Water research, 2007 - Elsevier
The first full-scale anammox reactor in the world was started in Rotterdam (NL). The reactor
was scaled-up directly from laboratory-scale to full-scale and treats up to 750kg-N/d. In the …