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 …

Pathways to advanced resource recovery from sewage

M Zheng, Z Hu, T Liu, M Sperandio, EIP Volcke… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The ongoing paradigm shift in sewage management from pollution control to resource
recovery is an integral part of a circular economy. Efforts have traditionally concentrated on …

[HTML][HTML] Technologies for biological removal and recovery of nitrogen from wastewater

S Rahimi, O Modin, I Mijakovic - Biotechnology Advances, 2020 - Elsevier
Water contamination is a growing environmental issue. Several harmful effects on human
health and the environment are attributed to nitrogen contamination of water sources …

[HTML][HTML] Partial denitrification providing nitrite: Opportunities of extending application for anammox

R Du, Y Peng, J Ji, L Shi, R Gao, X Li - Environment International, 2019 - Elsevier
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) has been extensively investigated for cost-
efficient nitrogen removal from wastewater. However, the major issues of nitrate (NO 3−-N) …

[HTML][HTML] One-year stable pilot-scale operation demonstrates high flexibility of mainstream anammox application

M Zheng, H Li, H Duan, T Liu, Z Wang, J Zhao, Z Hu… - Water Research X, 2023 - Elsevier
Mainstream nitrogen removal via anammox is widely recognized as a promising wastewater
treatment process. However, its application is challenging at large scale due to unstable …

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 …

Quantify the contribution of anammox for enhanced nitrogen removal through metagenomic analysis and mass balance in an anoxic moving bed biofilm reactor

J Li, Y Peng, L Zhang, J Liu, X Wang, R Gao, L Pang… - Water Research, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, enhanced nitrogen removal through in situ enrichment of anammox bacteria
was successfully obtained in a full-scale municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). The …

[HTML][HTML] Mainstream partial nitritation and anammox: long-term process stability and effluent quality at low temperatures

M Laureni, P Falås, O Robin, A Wick, DG Weissbrodt… - Water Research, 2016 - Elsevier
The implementation of autotrophic anaerobic ammonium oxidation processes for the
removal of nitrogen from municipal wastewater (known as “mainstream anammox”) bears …

Biomass retention and microbial segregation to offset the impacts of seasonal temperatures for a pilot-scale integrated fixed-film activated sludge partial nitritation …

C Rong, Z Luo, T Wang, Y Qin, J Wu, Y Guo, Y Hu… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Partial nitritation-anammox (PN/A) is a promising deammonification process to develop
energy-neutral wastewater treatment plants. However, the mainstream application of PN/A …

Technologies for reducing sludge production in wastewater treatment plants: State of the art

Q Wang, W Wei, Y Gong, Q Yu, Q Li, J Sun… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
This review presents the state-of-the-art sludge reduction technologies applied in both
wastewater and sludge treatment lines. They include chemical, mechanical, thermal …