The removal of ammonium (NH(4)(+)) and phosphate (PO(4)(3-)) from supernatant of anaerobic digestion by magnesium ammonium phosphate (MAP) formation was studied. To be able to find out the loss of NH(4)(+) by its transformation to NH(3), rates of NH(4)(+) removal by aeration and by MAP formation combined with aeration were compared. NH(4)(+) removal by aeration was found to be insignificant. Th...

Pseudomonas putida for H2S and Arthrobacter oxydans for NH3 were immobilized with Ca-alginate and packed inside glass columns to form fluidized-bed bioreactors. The feasibility of the lab-scale bioreactor for the treatment of H2S or NH3 was examined. Phosphate salt, being added to the nutrient solution as buffer solution, may chelate with Ca2+ in the Ca-alginate beads, resulting in the disinteg...

Net community production (NCP) and nutrient de"cits (Def(X)) were calculated using decreases in dissolved CO 2 and nutrient concentrations due to biological removal in the upper 200m of the water column during four cruises in the Ross Sea, Antarctica along 76330@S in 1996 and 1997. A comparison to excess dissolved and particulate organic carbon showed close agreement between surplus total organ...

Traditionally, wastewater treatment has been a combination of physical, biological, and chemical treatment methods. Physical methods of treatment include settling and sand filtration, biological methods include aerobic activated sludge, denitrification, and anaerobic digester treatment systems, while chemical methods include phosphate removal, dye and endocrine disruptor removal, and disinfecti...

Phosphate is one of the major causes of the water eutrophication, because it is often the limiting nutrient for primary production in fresh water and marine. The world health organization (WHO) especially established the committee for this, in order to research its origin cause of formation and make the countermeasure. Phosphate removal from wastewater has been widely investigated. Consequently...

Abstract The presence of toxic compounds in wastewater can cause problems for organic matter and nutrient removal. In this study, the long-term effect a model xenobiotic, 2-fluorophenol (2-FP), on ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB), nitrite oxidizing (NOB) phosphate accumulating organisms (PAO) aerobic granular sludge was investigated. Phosphate (P) ammonium (N) removal efficiencies were high (&a...

The problem of phosphorus pollution and its resource utilization has been a source general concern. preparation green, renewable, non-secondary adsorbents become research direction. In this paper, one-step hydrothermal method Ca-modified magnetic sludge biochar (Ca-MSBC) is used for enhancing phosphate removal. results show that the adsorption rate by Ca-MSBC mainly controlled chemisorption but...

Background: The reuse of treated municipal wastewater is an important source of water for different ,purposes. This study evaluated the efficiency of the electrocoagulation process in removing turbidity,a total suspended solids (TSS), chemical oxygen demand (COD), nitrate, and phosphate from wastewater at the treatment facility in Karaj, Iran. Methods: This experimental study was performed at ...

background: increased impervious surfaces in urban areas not only increase runoff volume and peak flow, but also worsen urban storm water pollution. the polluted runoff has many adverse impacts on human life and environment. the purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the efficiency of sand columns coated with nanoparticles of iron oxide in the presence and absence of a magnetic fi...