Biological Nitrogen Removal Database
A manually curated data resource for microbial nitrogen removal
Biological Nitrogen Removal Database
A manually curated data resource for microbial nitrogen removal
Influent:Fish cannery wastewater
Anammox system:nan
Anammox reactor:Sequencing batch reactor (SBR)
Medium:nan
Culture taken from:Effluent of a Sharon reactor that treated the effluent collected from an anaerobic digester treating fish canning wastewater
Microorganism cultured:nan
Respiration:Anaerobic
Electron donor:Ammonium chloride NH4Cl
Electron acceptor:Sodium Nitrite (NaNO2)
PH:8.0–8.2
Maximum sludge concentration:0.44
HRT:1.8 d
NH4–N Influent conc(mg/L):nan
NO2–N Influent conc(mg/L):nan
SO4–S Influent conc(mg/L):nan
NH4–N Removal efficiency (%):65
NO2–N Removal efficiency (%):46
SO4-S Removal efficiency (%):nan
NLR kg-N/m3/d:700^
NRR kg-N/m3/d:0.7
Major findings:The obtained results in this study did not corroborate the hypothesis that Anammox process could use organic carbon as electron donor instead of ammonium as claimed by Guven et al. (2004). Based on these results, it seems that the Sharon–Anammox system can be applied for the treatment of industrial wastewaters with high nitrogen load and salt concentration with an appropriate control of the nitrite/ammonium ratio.
Authors:Dapena-Mora et al., 2006
Title:Anammox process for nitrogen removal from anaerobically digested fish canning effluents
Pubmed link:Link
Full research link:Link
Abstract:The Anammox process was used to treat the effluent generated in an anaerobic digester which treated the wastewater from a fish cannery once previously processed in a Sharon reactor. The effluents generated from the anaerobic digestion are characterised by their high ammonium content (700-1000 g NH4+ -Nm(-3)), organic carbon content (1000-1300 g TOCm(-3)) and salinity up to 8,000-10,000 g NaCl m(-3). In the Sharon reactor, approximately 50% of the NH4+ -N was oxidised to NO2- -N via partial nitrification. The effluent of the Sharon step was fed to the Anammox reactor which treated an averaged nitrogen loading rate of 500 g N m(-3) x d(-1). The system reached an averaged nitrogen removal efficiency of 68%, mainly limited due to the nonstoichiometric relation, for the Anammox process, between the ammonium and nitrite added in the feeding. The Anammox reactor bacterial population distribution, followed by FISH analysis and batch activity assays, did not change significantly despite the continuous entrance to the system of aerobic ammonium oxidisers coming from the Sharon reactor. Most of the bacteria corresponded to the Anammox population and the rest with slight variable shares to the ammonia oxidisers. The Anammox reactor showed an unexpected robustness despite the continuous variations in the influent composition regarding ammonium and nitrite concentrations. Only in the period when NO2- -N concentration was higher than the NH4+ -N concentration did the process destabilise and it took 14 days until the nitrogen removal percentage decreased to 34% with concentrations in the effluent of 340g NH4+ -N m(-3) and 440 g NO2- -N m(-3), respectively. Based on these results, it seems that the Sharon-Anammox system can be applied for the treatment of industrial wastewaters with high nitrogen load and salt concentration with an appropriate control of the NO2- -N/NH4+ -N ratio.