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 …

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 …

Advances in continuous flow aerobic granular sludge: a review

D Xu, J Li, J Liu, X Qu, H Ma - Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 2022 - Elsevier
Aerobic granule in continuous-flow process is drawing increasing global interest in a quest
for an efficient and innovative technology in the biological wastewater treatment. This paper …

How to provide nitrite robustly for anaerobic ammonium oxidation in mainstream nitrogen removal

K Wang, J Li, X Gu, H Wang, X Li… - … Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Innovation in decarbonizing wastewater treatment is urgent in response to global climate
change. The practical implementation of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) …

New directions in biological nitrogen removal and recovery from wastewater

MKH Winkler, L Straka - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Biological nitrogen removal and recovery approaches are reviewed.•Anammox
saves energy in side-stream treatment and is progressing toward mainstream.•Phototrophic …

Partial nitrification-anammox (PNA) treating sewage with intermittent aeration mode: Effect of influent C/N ratios

Y Miao, Y Peng, L Zhang, B Li, X Li, L Wu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
The partial nitrification-anammox (PNA) process under intermittent aeration is feasible to
treat low-strength ammonium wastewater, but the effect of chemical oxygen demand (COD) …

[HTML][HTML] Biomass segregation between biofilm and flocs improves the control of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in mainstream partial nitritation and anammox processes

M Laureni, DG Weissbrodt, K Villez, O Robin… - Water Research, 2019 - Elsevier
The control of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) challenges the implementation of partial
nitritation and anammox (PN/A) processes under mainstream conditions. The aim of the …

Anammox-based technologies: a review of recent advances, mechanism, and bottlenecks

M Adams, E Issaka, C Chen - Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2025 - Elsevier
The removal of nitrogen via the ANAMMOX process is a promising green wastewater
treatment technology, with numerous benefits. The incessant studies on the ANAMMOX …

Recent advances in partial denitrification in biological nitrogen removal: From enrichment to application

Z Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Chen - Bioresource Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
To maximize energy recovery, carbon capture followed by shortcut nitrogen removal is
becoming the most promising route in biological wastewater treatment. As the intermediate …

Recent developments of the mainstream anammox processes: challenges and opportunities

HP Trinh, SH Lee, G Jeong, H Yoon, HD Park - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) processes are gaining attention owing to their
advantages over the conventional biological nitrogen removal processes. Although …