Nitrogen loss in a nitrifying biofilm system

被引:35
作者
Helmer, C
Kunst, S
Juretschko, S
Schmid, MC
Schleifer, KH
Wagner, M
机构
[1] Univ Hannover, Inst Sanit Engn & Waste Management, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[2] Tech Univ Munich, Lehrstuhl Mikrobiol, D-80290 Munich, Germany
关键词
biological contactor; nitrogen loss; nitrification aerobic denitrification; aerobic anoxic deammonification; biofilm;
D O I
10.1016/S0273-1223(99)00145-6
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
In a biological contactor that is part of the biological pretreatment of landfill leachate in Mechemich (Germany) nitrogen elimination of 60% or more was observed under low dissolved oxygen (DO) conditions. Ammonia was converted without accumulation of nitrite and with only little nitrate production. Interestingly, due to limited supply with organic substrate in the system this observation cannot simply be explained by a combination of conventional autotrophic nitrification and heterotrophic denitrification. In situ hybridization with 16S rRNA-targeted probes revealed the presence of large microcolonies of at least three different types of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in those biofilm regions where extremely high nitrogen losses occurred. These results were confirmed by comparative sequence analysis of biofilm-derived amoA (encoding the active-site polypeptide of ammonia-monooxygenase) clones for molecular fine-scale analysis of the ammonia-oxidizing population. In batch tests inoculated with biofilm material nitrogen loss occurred without dosage of organic substrate at a DO concentration of 1 mg/l. The simultaneous presence of ammonia and nitrite in the reactor induced the process of complete nitrogen elimination. N-2 was identified to be the gaseous end product of the reaction. These results indicate that under low DO concentrations autotrophic ammonia-oxidizers might be the causative agents of the observed nitrogen loss by performing aerobic/anoxic denitrification with nitrite as electron acceptor and ammonia (or perhaps hydroxylamin) as electron donor. (C) 1999 IAWQ Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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