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 …

Innovative and cost-effective technologies for advanced nutrient removal from surface water
are urgently needed for improving water quality. Conventional biotechnologies, such as …

Microbial taxa within complex ecological networks can be classified by their universal roles
based on their level of connectivity with other taxa. Highly connected taxa within an …

Urban water systems and, in particular, wastewater treatment facilities are among the major
energy consumers at municipal level worldwide. Estimates indicate that on average these …

Sludge aggregation and biofilm formation are the most effective approaches to solve the
washout of anammox microorganisms. In this study, the structure and composition of EPS …

The high aggregation ability of anammox sludge has been extensively observed, but the
cause for their aggregation is challenging. Here the structure and composition of …

Partial nitritation/anammox (PN/A) has been one of the most innovative developments in
biological wastewater treatment in recent years. With its discovery in the 1990s a completely …

Nutrient removal and recovery has received less attention during the development of
bioelectrochemical systems (BES) for energy efficient wastewater treatment, but it is a critical …

With the extensive development of industrial livestock and poultry production, a
considerable part of agricultural wastewater containing tremendous ammonium and …

Written by experts in the field, this thoroughly updated third edition covers commonly used
and emerging suspended and attached growth reactors. Drawing on their extensive …