A review on biofilm-based reactors for wastewater treatment: Recent advancements in biofilm carriers, kinetics, reactors, economics, and future perspectives

S Murshid, AJ Antonysamy… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Industrialization plays an important role in the growth of a nation. But it is also added to the
deteriorating condition of our ecosystem. Pollution, be it aquatic, terrestrial, or airborne, has …

Role of heterotrophic nitrifiers and aerobic denitrifiers in simultaneous nitrification and denitrification process: a nonconventional nitrogen removal pathway in …

RK Gupta, BJ Poddar, SP Nakhate… - Letters in Applied …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial species capable of performing both nitrification and denitrification in a single
vessel under similar conditions have gained significance in the wastewater treatment …

Attached growth systems for wastewater treatment in small and rural communities: a review

E Loupasaki, E Diamadopoulos - Journal of Chemical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews the application of attached growth processes for municipal wastewater
treatment. Attached growth processes are classified as aerobic (either aerated or non …

Determination of optimum conditions for dairy wastewater treatment in UAASB reactor for removal of nutrients

M Amini, H Younesi, AAZ Lorestani, G Najafpour - Bioresource technology, 2013 - Elsevier
In this study, the granular sludge was generated for simultaneous nitrification, denitrification
and phosphorus removal (SNDPR) and studied on a laboratory scale. Analyzing the …

A new hybrid ensemble approach for the prediction of effluent total nitrogen from a full-scale wastewater treatment plant using a combined trickling filter-activated …

S Sadri Moghaddam, H Mesghali - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
In this study, different K-nearest neighbors (KNN), support vector regression (SVR), decision
tree (DT), and random forest (RF) algorithms integrated with the Bayesian optimization …

Nitrogen Removal in a Full‐Scale Domestic Wastewater Treatment Plant with Activated Sludge and Trickling Filter

D Nourmohammadi, MB Esmaeeli… - … of environmental and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
During the last decade, more stringent effluent requirements concerning the nutrients
effluent values have been imposed by legislation and social concern. In this study, efficiency …

Performance of aerated submerged biofilm reactor packed with local scoria for carbon and nitrogen removal from municipal wastewater

SA El-Shafai, WM Zahid - Bioresource technology, 2013 - Elsevier
An up-flow submerged biofilm reactor packed with scoria was evaluated for municipal
wastewater treatment. The reactor was operated two cycles (with and without effluent …

[HTML][HTML] Biofilm fixed film systems

H Gullicks, H Hasan, D Das, C Moretti, YT Hung - Water, 2011 - mdpi.com
The work reviewed here was published between 2008 and 2010 and describes research
that involved aerobic and anoxic biofilm treatment of water pollutants. Biofilm denitrification …

Open‐cell polyvinylidene fluoride foams as carriers to promote biofilm growth for biological wastewater treatment

P Ghahramani, A Eldyasti… - Polymer Engineering & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article reports the design and fabrication of open‐cell polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)
foams as carriers that can promote biofilm growth and organic removal efficiency for …

Sustained and enhanced anaerobic removal of COD and nitrogen in a zeolite amended glycogen accumulating organism dominated biofilm process

MI Hossain, L Cheng, R Cord-Ruwisch - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Activated sludge, the most widely used biological wastewater treatment process is known to
be expensive to operate, largely due to energy expense for oxygen transfer into the bulk …