SUN Yawen, ZHANG Jianhua, PENG Yongzhen, et al. Effect of additional carbon sources on nitrogen and phosphorus removal characteristics in A2/O-BCO process[J]. CIESC Journal, 2018, (8): 3626-3634. DOI: 10.11949/j.issn.0438-1157.20180139.
SUN Yawen, ZHANG Jianhua, PENG Yongzhen, et al. Effect of additional carbon sources on nitrogen and phosphorus removal characteristics in A2/O-BCO process[J]. CIESC Journal, 2018, (8): 3626-3634. DOI: 10.11949/j.issn.0438-1157.20180139.DOI:
Simultaneous nitrogen and phosphorus removal could be realized by denitrifying phosphorus removal system. However
a shortage of organic carbon for wastewaters with low COD/N ratio can result in adding carbon source to overcome the limitation of low organic carbon. By adding carbon sources to adjust influent COD/N ratio around 4.3
the role of various carbon source in the A2/O-BCO(anaerobic anoxic oxic-biological contact oxidation)process was investigated. The batch tests were used to further research the substrate storage and conversion of activated sludge with various additional carbon sources. These results showed that the substrate storage and utilization characteristics were influenced by the type of influent carbon
which further effected the nitrogen and phosphorus removals. When sodium propionate was the additional carbon source
PO43--P removal steadily maintained around 94%
however
the removal efficiency of TIN was 70.82%. For sodium acetate
TIN removal reached to 74%
but the average removal efficiency of PO43--P was 89.90%. The conversion analysis of carbon source revealed that the content of PHA was mainly PHV with adding sodium propionate in the anaerobic phase. On the contrary
the proportion of PHB increased with adding sodium acetate. In the anoxic phase
the effect of PHB and PHV degradation by DPAOs was closely related to its content. Compared to PHB
PHV is liable to be absorbed by DPAOs. When sodium propionate was used as additional carbon source
the higher PHV degradation rate and productivity efficiency were observed
which improved the phosphorus absorption rate. In addition
the optimal operation strategy of the A2/O-BCO process with various sources was proposed.