强化生物除磷的机理模型研究进展

主要论述了以乙酸盐及葡萄糖作为基质的强化生物除磷的相关机理模型。当以乙酸盐为底物时．重点需要明确导致工艺中微生物代谢模式差异的原因及厌氧条件下还原力供给方式的问题；当以葡萄糖为底物时．主要需要解决厌氧条件下供能方式以及各种微生物之间的关系。某些抑制条件(如供氧不足)可能会促进强化生物除磷效果的实现。强化生物除磷各种机理的差异主要由所驯化的优势微生物种类及其代谢模式不同而造成的。     

Rapid enrichment of polyphosphate accumulating organisms and its characteristics of phosphorus removal

在序批式活性污泥反应器(SBR)中快速富集聚磷菌(PAOs),考察PAOs中Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis(以下简称Accumulibacter)种群的除磷特性.结果表明,在水温(20.0士0.5)℃下控制厌氧初始pH为7.50～7.80,好氧段DO为2.0～4.0 mg/L,进水乙酸与丙酸摩尔比为3.0的条件下,PAOs能够在60 d内实现快速富集,荧光原位杂交检测(FISH)显示,Accumulibacter占全菌比例达到62.4％士4.7％;厌氧溶解性正磷酸盐(SOP)释放量(SOP.)与挥发性脂肪酸(VFA)吸收量(VFAa)的比值与活性污泥中Accumulibacter占全菌比例呈线性关系,说明全菌中Accumulibacter的相对数量对活性污泥的除磷特性具有显著影响；在长期没有硝酸盐的条件下培养的Accumulibacte反硝化除磷能力较弱,Accumulibacte不能有效驯化为反硝化聚磷菌(DPAOs).     

污泥停留时间对单级好氧生物除磷的影响

以丙酸钠为单一碳源,设置4组不同污泥停留时间(SRT)的SBR(R1:SRT=9 d;R2:SRT=12 d;R3:SRT=18 d;R4:SRT=24 d),考察SRT对单级好氧生物除磷的影响。实验结果表明,当SRT分别为9、12、18和24 d时除磷效率分别为34.2%、85.0%、93.3%和76.7%,单位VSS除磷量分别为1.97、4.62、4.70和3.59 mg-P/g-VSS,SVI分别稳定在89、93、98和123 mL/g左右。随着SRT增大,系统除磷效率及单位VSS除磷量先升高后下降,并在SRT=18 d时达到最大值,而污泥沉降性能逐渐变差。分析各组反应器中内聚物的变化表明,R1中的微生物在外源基质消耗阶段利用糖原质的分解合成多β羟基烷酸盐(PHA),但PHA消耗阶段没有磷酸盐的大量吸收,表现出聚糖菌的代谢方式;R2、R3和R4中的微生物在外源基质消耗阶段通过TCA循环合成PHA,在PHA消耗阶段大量合成聚磷,表现出聚磷菌的代谢方式。     

强化生物除磷系统中聚磷菌与聚糖菌的种群分析及代谢机制研究进展

强化生物除磷(EBPR)工艺是目前国内外广泛应用的废水除磷技术之一。微生物的研究对于提高EBPR系统的除磷稳定性有着非常重要的意义。综述了EBPR系统中聚磷菌和聚糖菌的种群分析及其代谢机制、聚磷菌与聚糖菌之间竞争的影响因素等方面的研究进展。分析了目前相关研究中存在的不足,并展望了今后相关的研究发展方向。     

温度对SBR强化生物除磷工艺除磷性能的影响

以厌氧/好氧交替运行的序批式反应器(SBR)为对象,利用荧光原位杂交技术(FISH),研究了温度(20、25和30℃)对强化生物除磷(EBPR)的影响。结果表明,温度为20℃时,系统的磷去除率高于98%,厌氧释磷速率和好氧吸磷速率分别为55.70 mg P·(gVSS·h)~(-1)和45.16 mg P·(gVSS·h)~(-1),聚磷菌(PAOs)占总细菌(EUB)的比例达到90%,而聚糖菌(GAO)的比例只有1%;温度升高到25℃后,除磷效果不断降低,释磷速率和吸磷速率逐渐下降,PAOs的比例下降,而聚糖菌(GAOs)的比例不断增加;温度为30℃时,出水水质恶化,磷去除率仅为67%,释磷速率和吸磷速率分别为33.66 mg P·(gVSS·h)~(-1)和17.55 mg P·(gVSS·h)~(-1),GAOs的比例高达87%,而PAOs的比例仅为5%,在与PAOs的竞争中,GAOs处于优势,导致除磷效果降低。     

活性污泥体系中聚糖菌的富集与鉴定

活性污泥体系中，聚糖菌(GAOs)在厌氧环境下与聚磷菌(PAOs)形成对底物的竞争关系，对聚糖菌的研究对于优化生物除磷工艺有重要意义。以葡萄糖为惟一碳源，在磷限制条件下，利用特殊运行方式对活性污泥进行驯化培养出了稳定的聚糖菌颗粒污泥，厌氧阶段磷释放量与有机物吸收量浓度(mg/L)比从7.4%下降为0.25%。从培养好的活性污泥反应器中分离获得2株聚糖菌，经菌落PCR和16S rRNA序列分析确定了所得聚糖菌菌株G1和菌株G2分别是枯草芽孢杆菌(Bacillus subtilis)和解鸟氨酸克雷伯氏菌(Klebsiella ornithinolytica)。     

聚糖菌的代谢机制及生物学特性研究进展

强化生物除磷(EBPR)是一种经济、高效、可持续的除磷工艺之一,然而聚糖菌(GAO)的过量生长将导致EBPR系统恶化甚至完全失效.介绍了GAO的厌氧/好氧代谢机制,重点总结了两种GAO(Competibacter和类Defluviicoccus vanus细菌)的生物学特性,分析了碳源、pH、温度等影响GAO生长的关键因素,并对今后的研究进行了展望.     

补充碳源对交替式厌氧/好氧生物滤池生物蓄磷/回收磷的影响

碳源不足是废水高效脱氮除磷、磷回收的限制因素,研究高效利用碳源同时能提高磷回收效果的的新工艺及其运行方式尤为重要。本研究采用连续式厌氧/好氧交替生物滤池(AABF)处理低碳磷比废水(COD/P=11),并研究碳源的补充方式(间歇型、连续型、连续循环型)、补充周期对生物滤池除磷、回收磷的影响;采用生物膜吸收并蓄积废水中的磷,并采用定期补充碳源方式诱导生物滤池内聚磷菌群(PAOs)充分释磷,以便形成高浓度的磷回收液,同时在PAOs胞内积累内源性碳,用于后续的生物除磷。结果表明,连续循环型碳源补充方式优于其他两种碳源补充方式,合理缩短碳源补充周期利于提高AABF的生物除磷以及磷回收效率;定期补充AABF进水碳源可增加AABF生物膜内聚羟基丁酸酯(PHB)含量、大幅提高AABF厌氧释磷浓度、提高厌氧释磷(磷回收)过程中PAOs的对碳源的利用效率。     

富磷污泥厌氧消化磷释放与回收的研究进展

生物强化除磷(EBPR)工艺会产生大量的富磷污泥。富磷污泥中的聚磷菌(PAOs)在厌氧消化过程中吸收外界碳源并释放大量正磷,高浓度的磷会对厌氧消化系统中厌氧微生物的代谢产生影响,使得消化过程更加复杂。富磷污泥厌氧消化过程会产生磷、氮、有机物和金属离子等物质,其中磷的回收利用可以减少磷矿资源的开采,从而实现磷资源的可持续循环利用。因此,研究富磷污泥厌氧消化过程中磷的变化规律,既为厌氧消化系统的稳定运行提供理论依据,又为磷的资源化回收利用提供参考。对富磷污泥厌氧消化释磷的相关研究成果以及磷回收进行分析和总结,并提出了相应的研究方向。     

温度对生物除磷系统微生物种群关系及动力学的影响

以西安市第三污水处理厂的氧化沟工艺为对象,利用荧光原位杂交技术(FISH),研究了温度对强化生物除磷系统(EBPR)除磷性能及微生物种群关系的影响。结果表明:当水温低于20℃时,厌氧释磷速率和乙酸吸收速率随着温度上升逐渐增加,聚磷菌(PAOs)占总细菌(EUB)的比例也逐渐增加;当水温在20~25℃之间,厌氧释磷速率达到最大值,为10.86 mgP·(gVSS·h)~(-1),乙酸吸收速率随温度升高持续增加,PAOs占EUB的比例也达到最大值,为6.65%;当水温高于25℃时,厌氧释磷速率随温度的升高而下降,而乙酸吸收速率则继续增加,聚糖菌(GAOs)的数量已经超过PAOs而成为优势菌,导致处理效果下降。通过对实验数据的统计,得出活性污泥厌氧乙酸吸收速率的温度系数为1.018。     

Modeling the aerobic metabolism of polyphosphate-accumulating organisms enriched with propionate as a carbon source.

In enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) systems, polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs) are primarily responsible for removing phosphate from wastewater. Propionate is an abundant carbon substrate in many EBPR plants and has been suggested to provide PAOs an advantage over their carbon competitors--the glycogen-accumulating organisms (GAOs). The aerobic metabolism of PAOs enriched with a propionate carbon source is studied in this paper. A metabolic model is proposed and experimentally validated to characterize the aerobic biochemical transformations by PAOs. The model predicts very well the experimental data obtained from the enriched PAO culture through solid-, liquid-, and gas-phase analyses. This model may be combined with previously formulated metabolic models to better describe the biochemical activity of PAOs with acetate and propionate as the primary carbon sources. Furthermore, it can also facilitate the study of the effect of different carbon sources on PAO-GAO competition.     

不同电子受体对聚磷菌吸磷性能的影响研究

采用人工配水,在厌氧/好氧交替运行的序批式活性污泥反应器(SBR)中,富集了全菌数量80%以上的聚磷菌(Candi-datus Accumulibacter Phosphates)。以此为基础,研究了O2及不同浓度NO3--N、NO2--N对聚磷菌吸磷的影响。结果表明,在一定的条件下,聚磷菌可以NO3--N和NO2--N为电子受体进行缺氧吸磷;NO3--N浓度对聚磷菌的吸磷速率影响很小;聚磷菌可以低质量浓度NO2--N(≤40mg/L)为电子受体,但不能以高质量浓度NO2--N(≥80mg/L)为电子受体,而且高浓度NO2--N对聚磷菌吸磷产生抑制甚至对细菌本身存在毒害;NO2--N为电子受体时,其抑制浓度和污泥本身以及外界条件都存在很大的关系,各个研究结论不尽相同,其影响过程有待进一步的探讨。     

Competition between polyphosphate- and glycogen-accumulating organisms in enhanced-biological-phosphorus-removal systems: effect of temperature and sludge age.

Temperature and sludge age were found to be important factors in determining the outcome of competition between polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs) and glycogen-accumulating non-polyphosphate organisms (GAOs) and the resultant stability of enhanced-biological-phosphorus removal (EBPR). At 20 degrees C and a 10-day sludge age, PAOs were dominant in an anaerobic/aerobic (A/O) sequencing-batch reactor (SBR), as a result of their higher anaerobic-acetate-uptake rate and aerobic-biomass yield than GAOs. However, at 30 degrees C and a 10-day sludge age, GAOs were able to outcompete PAOs in the A/O SBR because of their higher anaerobic-acetate-uptake rate than PAOs. At 30 degrees C and a 5-day sludge age, GAOs coexisted with PAOs in the A/O SBR, resulting in unstable EBPR performance. At 30 degrees C, reducing the sludge age from 5 to 3 days improved the EBPR efficiency drastically, and the EBPR performance was stable. The maximum specific-anaerobic-acetate-uptake rates of GAO-enriched sludge were affected by temperature with the Arrhenius temperature coefficient theta of 0.042 (degrees C(-1) between 10 and 30 degrees C. The effect of sludge age (5 and 10 days) on the maximum specific-anaerobic-acetate-uptake rates of GAO-enriched activated sludge, however, was not significant. For the PAO-enriched activated sludge, the maximum specific-anaerobic-acetate-uptake rate did not change significantly between 20 and 30 degrees C, but significantly increased from 0.38 to 0.52 mmol-C/ mmol-C/h as the sludge age decreased from 10 to 3 days at 30 degrees C.     

The selective role of nitrite in the PAO/GAO competition

Proliferation of Glycogen Accumulating Organisms (GAOs) accounts as one of the major bottlenecks in biological phosphorus removal systems. GAO outcompeting polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) results in lower P-removal. Thus, finding optimal conditions that favour PAO in front of GAO is a current focus of research. This work shows how nitrite can provide a novel strategy for PAO enrichment. A propionate-fed GAO-enriched biomass (70% Defluviicoccus I, 18% Defluviicoccus II and 10% PAO) was subjected more than 50 d under anaerobic-anoxic conditions with nitrite as electron acceptor. These operational conditions led to a PAO-enriched sludge (85%) where GAO were washed out of the system (<10%), demonstrating the validity of the new approach for PAO enrichment. In addition, the presented suppression of Defluviicocus GAO with nitrite represents an add-on benefit to the nitrite-based systems since the proliferation of non-desirable GAO can be easily ruled out and added to the other benefits (i.e. lower aeration and COD requirements).     

Functionally relevant microorganisms to enhanced biological phosphorus removal performance at full-scale wastewater treatment plants in the United States

The abundance and relevance ofAccumulibacter phosphatis (presumed to be polyphosphate-accumulating organisms [PAOs]), Competibacter phosphatis (presumed to be glycogen-accumulating organisms [GAOs]), and tetrad-forming organisms (TFOs) to phosphorus removal performance at six full-scale enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) wastewater treatment plants were investigated. Coexistence of various levels of candidate PAOs and GAOs were found at these facilities. Accumulibacter were found to be 5 to 20% of the total bacterial population, and Competibacter were 0 to 20% of the total bacteria population. The TFO abundance varied from nondetectable to dominant. Anaerobic phosphorus (P) release to acetate uptake ratios (P(rel)/HAc(up)) obtained from bench tests were correlated positively with the abundance ratio of Accumulibacter/(Competibacter +TFOs) and negatively with the abundance of (Competibacter +TFOs) for all plants except one, suggesting the relevance of these candidate organisms to EBPR processes. However, effluent phosphorus concentration, amount of phosphorus removed, and process stability in an EBPR system were not directly related to high PAO abundance or mutually exclusive with a high GAO fraction. The plant that had the lowest average effluent phosphorus and highest stability rating had the lowest P(rel)/HAc(up) and the most TFOs. Evaluation of full-scale EBPR performance data indicated that low effluent phosphorus concentration and high process stability are positively correlated with the influent readily biodegradable chemical oxygen demand-to-phosphorus ratio. A system-level carbon-distribution-based conceptual model is proposed for capturing the dynamic competition between PAOs and GAOs and their effect on an EBPR process, and the results from this study seem to support the model hypothesis.     

An observation on sludge granulation in an enhanced biological phosphorus removal process

A sequencing batch reactor (SBR) seeded with flocculated sludge and fed with synthetic wastewater was operated for an enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) process. Eight weeks after reactor startup, sludge granules were observed. The granules had a diameter of 0.5 to 3.0 mm and were brownish in color and spherical or ellipsoidal in shape. No significant change was observed in sludge granule size when operational pH was changed from 7 to 8. The 208-day continuous operation of the SBR showed that sludge granules were stably maintained with a sludge volume index (SVI) between 30 to 55 mL/g while securing a removal efficiency of 83% for carbon and 97% for phosphorus. Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) confirmed the enrichment of polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) in the SBR. The observations of sludge granulation in this study encourage further studies in the development of granules-based EBPR process.     

Effect of initial pH control on enhanced biological phosphorus removal from wastewater containing acetic and propionic acids

In the literature most of the studies on the effect of pH on enhanced biological phosphorous removal were conducted with the acetate wastewater, and the pH was controlled during the entire anaerobic and aerobic stages. This paper investigated the influence of anaerobic initial pH control, which will be more practical than the entire process pH control strategy, on enhanced biological phosphorus removal from wastewater containing acetic and propionic acids. Typical pH profile showed that both the initial alkaline and acidic pH tended to neutralize due to the consumption of short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) and intracellular pH regulation by polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs). It was observed that the glycogen degradation and polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) accumulation decreased with increasing initial pH, which disagreed with previous reports. In the literature the metabolisms of both glycogen and PHA by PAOs in the acetate wastewater were independent of pH. An anaerobic mechanism model was proposed to explain the intra- and extra-cellular pH buffer nature of PAOs, and to address the reasons for increased polyphosphate degradation and decreased PHA synthesis and glycogen degradation at higher pH. The optimal initial pH for higher soluble ortho-phosphorus (SOP) removal efficiency should be controlled between 6.4 and 7.2. This pH control strategy will be easier to use in practice of wastewater treatment plant.     

The mechanism of enhanced biological phosphorus removal washout and temperature relationships.

In this study, the combined effects of temperature and solids retention time (SRT) on enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) performance and the mechanism of EBPR washout were investigated. Two pilot-scale University of Cape Town (South Africa) systems fed with synthetic wastewater were operated at 5 and 10 degrees C. The results showed that the phosphorus removal performance was optimum at total SRT ranges of 16 to 24 days and 12 to 17 days for 5 and 10 degrees C, respectively, and steady-state phosphorus removal was greater at the lower temperature. Higher SRT values of up to 32 days at 5 degrees C and 25 days at 10 degrees C slightly reduced EBPR performance as a result of increased extent of endogenous respiration, which consumed internally stored glycogen, leaving less reducing power for poly-hydroxy alkanoate (PHA) formation in anaerobic stages. The phosphorus-accumulating organism (PAO) washout SRTs of the systems were determined as 3.5 days at 5 degrees C and 1.8 days at 10 degrees C, considerably less than the washout SRTs of nitrifiers. Polyphosphorus, the main energy reserve of the EBPR bacterial consortium, was not completely depleted, even at washout points. The inability of EBPR biomass to use glycogen to generate reducing power for PHA formation was the major reason for washout. The results not only suggest that glycogen mechanism is the most rate-limiting step in EBPR systems, but also that it is an integral part of EBPR biochemistry, as proposed originally by Mino et al. (1987), and later others (Pereira et al., 1996, Erdal et al., 2002; Erdal, Z. K., 2002). The aerobic washout SRT values (2.1 and 1.2 days for 5 and 10 degrees C, respectively) of this study did not fit the linear line for PAO washout developed by Mamais and Jenkins (1992). Perhaps this was because the feeds used during this study were chemical-oxygen-demand-limited (acetate-based synthetic feed), whereas the feeds used for their study were phosphorus-limited (external acetate added to domestic wastewater), resulting in different ratios of PAOs and nonPAOs in the biomass.     

Effect of initial pH control on biological phosphorus removal induced by the aerobic/extended-idle regime

Recently, it has been reported that biological phosphorus removal (BPR) can be induced by an aerobic/extended-idle (AEI) regime. This study further investigated the effect of initial pH ranging from 6.6 to 8.2 on BPR in the AEI process, and compared the BPR performance between the AEI and the anaerobic/oxic (A/O) regimes under their optimal initial pH value. Experimental results firstly showed that phosphorus removal linearly increased with initial pH increasing from 6.6 to 7.8, but slightly decreased when initial pH increased from 7.8 to 8.2. The optimal initial pH should be controlled at 7.8, and the phosphorus removal at initial pH 7.8 was approximately 1.7-time than that at initial pH 6.6. The mechanism studies showed that the biomass cultured at initial pH 7.8 contained more polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs), lower glycogen accumulating organisms (GAOs), and had higher activities of exopolyphosphatase and polyphosphate kinase than that cultured at initial pH 6.6. Cyclic studies revealed that initial pH control affected the transformations of intracellular polyhydroxyalkanoates and glycogen, which might thereby influence microbial competition between PAOs and GAOs. Then, BPR performance between the AEI and the A/O regimes by adjusting initial pH at 7.8 was also compared. The results showed the AEI regime could drive a better BPR than the generally accepted A/O regime (98% vs 88%). Finally, controlling initial pH at 7.8 to promote BPR in the AEI process was confirmed for a municipal wastewater.