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J.O. Perez Canestro

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Hydroxylamine is a key intermediate in several biological reactions of the global nitrogen cycle. However, the role of hydroxylamine in anammox is still not fully understood. In this work, the impact of hydroxylamine (also in combination with other substrates) on the metabolism o ...
A model-based study was developed to analyse the behaviour of Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) and Integrated Fixed-Film Activated Sludge (IFAS) reactor configurations for the removal of nitrogen in the main water line of municipal wastewater treatment plants via partial nitrita ...
A lab-scale partial nitritation granular sludge air-lift reactor was operated in continuous mode treating low strength synthetic medium (influent ca. 50 mg-N-NH4 +/L). Granules were initially stratified with AOB in the external sh ...
A new type of structural extracellular polymers (EPS) was extracted from aerobic granular sludge dominated by ammonium-oxidizing bacteria. It was analyzed by Raman and FTIR spectroscopy to characterize specific amino acids and protein secondary structure, and by SDS-PAGE with dif ...
Cellulose represents a significant fraction of domestic wastewater, but it is not considered as a separate state variable in the conventional Activated Sludge Models (ASM). Cellulose is a very slowly degradable substrate that in traditional wastewater characterisation methods wou ...
In the race to achieve a sustainable urban wastewater treatment plant, not only the energy requirements have to be considered but also the environmental impact of the facility. Thus, nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions are a key-factor to pay attention to, since they can dom ...
Highly-loaded aerobic chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal reactors (also known as A-stage) include two main processes, COD removal by heterotrophic biomass and adsorption of COD on the activated sludge. A simple model to describe highly-loaded aerobic COD removal reactors has be ...
The spontaneous abiotic (or chemical) reaction of hydroxylamine (NH2OH) at low concentrations (<0.4 mg N/L) with free nitrous acid (HNO2) was investigated at the conditions of partial nitritation of reject water. An abiotic batch reactor test was used to quantitatively assess ...
Sewage treatment with anammox could be implemented through a two-step reactor system, where the first reactor would be devoted to partial nitritation. A process design was sketched including control loops. The control strategy regulates the flow-rate of the rich ammonium sidestre ...
This model-based study investigated the mechanisms and operational window for efficient repression of nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB) in an autotrophic nitrogen removal process. The operation of a continuous single-stage granular sludge process was simulated for nitrogen removal ...