Improving wastewater management using free nitrous acid (FNA)

H Duan, S Gao, X Li, NH Ab Hamid, G Jiang, M Zheng… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Free nitrous acid (FNA), the protonated form of nitrite, has historically been an unwanted
substance in wastewater systems due to its inhibition on a wide range of microorganisms …

Robust nitritation sustained by acid-tolerant ammonia-oxidizing bacteria

Z Wang, M Zheng, J Meng, Z Hu, G Ni… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Oxidation of ammonium to nitrite rather than nitrate, ie, nitritation, is critical for autotrophic
nitrogen removal. This study demonstrates a robust nitritation process in treating low …

Achieving efficient nitrogen removal from real sewage via nitrite pathway in a continuous nitrogen removal process by combining free nitrous acid sludge treatment …

C Jiang, S Xu, R Wang, S Feng, S Zhou, S Wu, X Zeng… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstracts The incomplete denitrification due to insufficient carbon resource in the
wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) resulted in low nitrogen removal efficiency, which has …

The advantage of a two-stage nitrification method for fertilizer recovery from human urine

Z Zuo, Y Chen, Y **ng, S Li, S Yang, G Jiang, T Liu… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Recycling nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium) from human urine can potentially
offset more than 13% of global agricultural fertilizer demand. Biological nitrification is a …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic literature review of microbial anammox consortia in UASB/EGSB-reactors

P Witkabel, C Abendroth - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) poses an emerging research field as it can
outstand previous processes of biological wastewater treatment in terms of efficiency and …

Achieving reliable partial nitrification and anammox process using polyvinyl alcohol gel beads to treat low-strength ammonia wastewater

J Wang, J Liang, L Sun, J Shen, M Wang - Bioresource technology, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) gel beads were used to aid the partial nitrification and
anammox process (PN/A) for treating low-strength ammonia wastewater. When treating …

The mitigation effect of free ammonia and free nitrous acid on nitrous oxide production from the full-nitrification and partial-nitritation systems

L Peng, H Qiu, S Li, Y Xu, C Liang, N Wang, Y Liu… - Bioresource …, 2023 - Elsevier
The potentials of using endogenous free ammonia (FA) and free nitrous acid (FNA) as
nitrous oxide (N 2 O) mitigators were investigated in treatment of both mainstream and …

Inactivation kinetics of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria by free nitrous acid

M Zheng, Z Wang, J Meng, Z Hu, Y Liu, Z Yuan… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent studies have shown that free nitrous acid (FNA, ie, HNO 2) is biocidal to many
microorganisms, promoting the development of FNA-based technology in biological …

Partial nitrification in free nitrous acid-treated sediment planting Myriophyllum aquaticum constructed wetland strengthens the treatment of black-odor water

D Wang, S Xu, S Zhou, S Wang, C Jiang, B Sun… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Black-odor water pollution in rural areas, especially swine wastewater, can lead to the
deterioration of water quality and thus seriously affect the daily life of people in the area …

Recovery of ammonium nitrate solution from urine wastewater via novel free nitrous acid (FNA)-mediated two-stage processes

Z Zuo, T Liu, M Zheng, Y **ng, D Ren, H Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nitrogen (N) recovery from urine wastewater has been an important route to overcome
intensive energy consumption in the conventional N-removal process. Hereby, this study …