Aerobic granular sludge technology: mechanisms of granulation and biotechnological applications

YV Nancharaiah, GKK Reddy - Bioresource technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) is a novel microbial community which allows simultaneous
removal of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and other pollutants in a single sludge system …

Aerobic granular sludge: Cultivation parameters and removal mechanisms

SL de Sousa Rollemberg, ARM Barros… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) has been the focus of many investigations, and the main
parameters responsible for AGS formation are hydrodynamic shear force, short periods and …

Effect of different forms and components of EPS on sludge aggregation during granulation process of aerobic granular sludge

T Peng, Y Wang, J Wang, F Fang, P Yan, Z Liu - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The characteristics of three forms of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and their
component proteins (PN) and polysaccharides (PS) during the granulation process of …

Effect of EPS and its forms of aerobic granular sludge on sludge aggregation performance during granulation process based on XDLVO theory

Y Wang, J Wang, Z Liu, X Huang, F Fang, J Guo… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Different forms of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) play different roles in the
formation process of aerobic granular sludge (AGS). This work focused on the contribution of …

Full scale performance of the aerobic granular sludge process for sewage treatment

M Pronk, MK De Kreuk, B De Bruin, P Kamminga… - Water research, 2015 - Elsevier
Recently, aerobic granular sludge technology has been scaled-up and implemented for
industrial and municipal wastewater treatment under the trade name Nereda®. With full …

Rapid formation of aerobic granular sludge by bioaugmentation technology: a review

X Han, Y **, J Yu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) is the most promising technology to upgrade the most widely
applied conventional activated sludge (CAS) due to its overwhelming advantages. Long …

Reviewing bottlenecks in aerobic granular sludge technology: Slow granulation and low granular stability

H Lin, R Ma, Y Hu, J Lin, S Sun, J Jiang, T Li… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
The long granulation time and instability of aerobic granular sludge (AGS) have restricted its
large-scale application significantly. The objective of this review is to discuss the recent …

Impact of influent COD/N ratio on disintegration of aerobic granular sludge

J Luo, T Hao, L Wei, HR Mackey, Z Lin, GH Chen - Water Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Disintegration of aerobic granular sludge (AGS) is a challenging issue in the long-term
operation of an AGS system. Chemical oxygen demand (COD)-to-nitrogen (N) ratio …

Role of biochar in the granulation of anaerobic sludge and improvement of electron transfer characteristics

C Wang, Y Liu, X Gao, H Chen, X Xu, L Zhu - Bioresource Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
For improving the formation of anaerobic sludge granulation and its electron transfer
characteristics, two up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors (R1 with 4 g/L …

Effective nitrogen removal in a granule-based partial-denitrification/anammox reactor treating low C/N sewage

X Xu, B Ma, W Lu, D Feng, Y Wei, C Ge, Y Peng - Bioresource Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The partial-denitrification/anammox (PDA) process is a promising method to achieve
mainstream anammox in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). To investigate the feasibility …