Origin, causes and effects of increased nitrite concentrations in aquatic environments

S Philips, HJ Laanbroek, W Verstraete - Reviews in environmental …, 2002 - Springer
Literature frequently mentions increasednitrite concentrations along with itsinhibitory effect
towards bacteria and aquaticlife. Nitrite accumulation has been studied fordecades, and …

Partial nitrification—operational parameters and microorganisms involved

B Sinha, AP Annachhatre - Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio …, 2007 - Springer
Nitrite is a common intermediate in at least three different oxidative or reductive biochemical
pathways that occur in nature (nitrification, denitrification and dissimilatory or assimilatory …

Nitrogen removal from synthetic wastewater by simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) via nitrite in an intermittently-aerated reactor

H Yoo, KH Ahn, HJ Lee, KH Lee, YJ Kwak, KG Song - Water research, 1999 - Elsevier
An intermittently aerated and decanted single-reactor process was proposed and some key
control parameters investigated for nitrogen removal from wastewater by simultaneous …

Effect of free ammonia on the respiration and growth processes of an enriched Nitrobacter culture

VM Vadivelu, J Keller, Z Yuan - Water Research, 2007 - Elsevier
The inhibitory effect of free ammonia (FA; NH3) on the metabolism of Nitrobacter is
investigated using a method that allows decoupling energy generation from growth …

Comparison of nitrogen removal performance and mechanism from low-polluted wastewater by constructed wetlands with two oxygen supply strategies: Tidal flow and …

L Li, J Zhang, Q Shi, S Lu - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to dissolved oxygen (DO) limited nitrogen removal efficiency in constructed wetlands
(CWs), two representative oxygen-suppling CWs, ie, tidal flow constructed wetlands …

Free ammonia and free nitrous acid inhibition on the anabolic and catabolic processes of Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter

VM Vadivelu, J Keller, Z Yuan - Water science and technology, 2007 - iwaponline.com
The inhibitory effects of free ammonia (FA) and free nitrous acid (FNA) on the catabolic and
anabolic processes of Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter were investigated using a method that …

Effect of oxygen supply strategy on nitrogen removal of biochar-based vertical subsurface flow constructed wetland: intermittent aeration and tidal flow

J Li, Z Hu, F Li, J Fan, J Zhang, F Li, H Hu - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Insufficient dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration is recognized as one of the major factors
limiting efficient nitrogen removal in constructed wetlands (CWs). This study investigated …

Single‐step nitrification models erroneously describe batch ammonia oxidation profiles when nitrite oxidation becomes rate limiting

K Chandran, BF Smets - Biotechnology and bioengineering, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrification involves the sequential biological oxidation of reduced nitrogen species such as
ammonium‐nitrogen (NH4+‐N) to nitrite‐nitrogen (NO2−‐N) and nitrate‐nitrogen (NO3−‐N) …

Factors affecting the biological nitrogen removal from wastewater

M Komorowska-Kaufman, H Majcherek… - Process …, 2006 - Elsevier
The paper presents the results of full-scale research concerning the temperature, the sludge
age and the COD/N ratio in wastewater effect on nitrification and results of batch tests …

Physiological characteristics of predominant ammonia-oxidizing bacteria enriched from bioreactors with different influent supply regimes

A Terada, S Sugawara, T Yamamoto, S Zhou… - Biochemical …, 2013 - Elsevier
Two acclimatized biomasses exposed to ammonium (NH 4+) concentration of 600 mg NL−
1, one from a completely stirred tank reactor (CSTR), the other from a sequencing batch …