Complete Autotrophic Process for Nitrogen Removal from Ink- jet Printing Wastewater
Scaglione, D.
Lotti, T.
Menin, G.
Niccolini, F.
Malpei, F.
Canziani, R.
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Scaglione D., Lotti T., Menin G., Niccolini F., Malpei F., Canziani R., 2016, Complete Autotrophic Process for Nitrogen Removal from Ink- jet Printing Wastewater, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 49, 499-504.
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Abstract

Lab-scale results on the treatability of ammonium-rich wastewater from textile digital printing highlight the feasibility of an innovative biological process, based on purely autotrophic bacterial populations: ammonium oxidising bacteria (AOB) and anaerobic ammonium oxidisers (AAO). Activity of AOB has been measured through pH/DO-stat titration and that of AAO has been assessed through manometric tests, on raw mixed wastewater coming from textile-print factories (0.5 to 0-6 gN/L as ammonium nitrogen). AOB activity showed a reduction of 20-40% if compared with maximum activity on a synthetic medium. AAO activity tests showed a residual specific maximum anammox activity (SAA) of 0.1-0.4 gN2-N/gVSS/d, 40-60% of the control values obtained with synthetic wastewater. Activity tests confirmed treatability of the textile wastewater by AAO. Tests have been performed also on concentrated wastewater (2 to 3 gN/L as ammonium nitrogen) from the first rinsing bath. In this case, strong inhibition (between 80 and 100%) of anammox activity was observed. Careful operation of a continuous-flow completely mixed bioreactor can overcome this drawback, as pH and effluent ammonium concentration in the reactor are controlled.
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