Sulfamethoxazole (SMX) and trimethoprim (TMP) are two critical sulfonamide antibiotics with enhanced persistency that are commonly found in wastewater treatment plants. Recently, more scholars have showed interests in how SMX and TMP antibiotics are biodegraded, which is seldom reported previously. Novel artificial composite soil treatment systems were designed to allow biodegradation to effectively remove adsorbed SMX and TMP from the surface of clay ceramsites. A synergy between sorption and biodegradation improves the removal of SMX and TMP. One highly efficient SMX and TMP degrading bacteria strain, Bacillus subtilis, was isolated from column reactors. In the removal process, this bacteria degrade SMX and TMP to NH4+, and then further convert NH4+ to NO3– in a continuous process. Microbial adaptation time was longer for SMX degradation than for TMP, and SMX was also able to be degraded in aerobic conditions. Importantly, the artificial composite soil treatment system is suitable for application in practical engineering.
• Sludge fermentation liquid addition resulted in a high NAR of 97.4%.• Extra NH4+-N from SFL was removed by anammox in anoxic phase.• Nitrogen removal efficiency of 92.51% was achieved in municipal wastewater.• The novel system could efficiently treat low COD/N municipal wastewater. Biological nitrogen removal of wastewater with low COD/N ratio could be enhanced by the addition of wasted sludge fermentation liquid (SFL), but the performance is usually limited by the introducing ammonium. In this study, the process of using SFL was successfully improved by involving anammox process. Real municipal wastewater with a low C/N ratio of 2.8–3.4 was treated in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR). The SBR was operated under anaerobic-aerobic-anoxic (AOA) mode and excess SFL was added into the anoxic phase. Stable short-cut nitrification was achieved after 46d and then anammox sludge was inoculated. In the stable period, effluent total inorganic nitrogen (TIN) was less than 4.3 mg/L with removal efficiency of 92.3%. Further analysis suggests that anammox bacteria, mainly affiliated with Candidatus_Kuenenia, successfully reduced the external ammonia from the SFL and contributed approximately 28%–43% to TIN removal. Overall, this study suggests anammox could be combined with SFL addition, resulting in a stable enhanced nitrogen biological removal. 相似文献
为了掌握药物及个人护理用品(pharmaceuticals and personal care products,PPCPs)对高海拔河流氮转化过程的影响,采用沉积物泥浆实验方法,研究了磺胺甲唑(sulfamethoxazole,SMX)和甲氧基肉桂酸乙基己酯(2-ethylhexyl-4-methoxycinnamate,EHMC)在不同浓度下(0.01、0.1、1.0、10和100 μg·L-1)对雅鲁藏布江沉积物硝化作用的影响.所有处理组均显著降低了硝化速率,SMX和EHMC共暴露诱导了最大抑制率,达到66%.所有SMX和EHMC处理组均显著抑制了氨单加氧酶(ammonia monooxygenase,AMO)活性和amoA基因丰度,SMX单独及其与EHMC联合诱导了比EHMC更强的抑制效应.SMX单独或与EHMC联合暴露显著抑制了沉积物中的羟胺氧化酶(hydroxylamine oxidase,HAO)活性及hao基因丰度,共暴露的抑制效应更强,而单独EHMC处理增加了HAO活性和hao基因丰度.结果表明,PPCPs影响了高海拔河流沉积物中硝化菌群的活性,抑制了硝化过程,联合暴露进一步增加了水生态系统中氮负荷压力. 相似文献