Nitrite oxidation in wastewater treatment: microbial adaptation and suppression challenges

Z Su, T Liu, J Guo, M Zheng - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Microbial nitrite oxidation is the primary pathway that generates nitrate in wastewater
treatment systems and can be performed by a variety of microbes: namely, nitrite-oxidizing …

Heterotrophic nitrification and aerobic denitrification process: Promising but a long way to go in the wastewater treatment

H **, X Zhou, M Arslan, Z Luo, J Wei, Z Wu… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The traditional biological nitrogen removal (BNR) follows the conventional scheme of
sequential nitrification and denitrification. In recent years, novel processes such as …

A new perspective on microbes formerly known as nitrite-oxidizing bacteria

H Daims, S Lücker, M Wagner - Trends in microbiology, 2016 - cell.com
Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) catalyze the second step of nitrification, nitrite oxidation to
nitrate, which is an important process of the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. NOB were …

Microbial surface colonization and biofilm development in marine environments

H Dang, CR Lovell - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Biotic and abiotic surfaces in marine waters are rapidly colonized by microorganisms.
Surface colonization and subsequent biofilm formation and development provide numerous …

The activated sludge ecosystem contains a core community of abundant organisms

AM Saunders, M Albertsen, J Vollertsen… - The ISME …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the microbial ecology of a system requires that the observed population
dynamics can be linked to their metabolic functions. However, functional characterization is …

Expanded metabolic versatility of ubiquitous nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from the genus Nitrospira

H Koch, S Lücker, M Albertsen… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Nitrospira are a diverse group of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria and among the environmentally
most widespread nitrifiers. However, they remain scarcely studied and mostly uncultured …

Bacterial communities in full-scale wastewater treatment systems

A Cydzik-Kwiatkowska, M Zielińska - World Journal of Microbiology and …, 2016 - Springer
Bacterial metabolism determines the effectiveness of biological treatment of wastewater.
Therefore, it is important to define the relations between the species structure and the …

Characterization of bacterial communities in wastewater with enhanced taxonomic resolution by full-length 16S rRNA sequencing

D Numberger, L Ganzert, L Zoccarato, K Mühldorfer… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Wastewater treatment is crucial to environmental hygiene in urban environments. However,
wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) collect chemicals, organic matter, and …

The structure of microbial communities of activated sludge of large-scale wastewater treatment plants in the city of Moscow

S Begmatov, AG Dorofeev, VV Kadnikov, AV Beletsky… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Microbial communities in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) play a key role in water
purification. Microbial communities of activated sludge (AS) vary extensively based on plant …

The cycle of nitrogen in river systems: sources, transformation, and flux

X **a, S Zhang, S Li, L Zhang, G Wang… - … science: Processes & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nitrogen is a requisite and highly demanded element for living organisms on Earth.
However, increasing human activities have greatly altered the global nitrogen cycle …