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Bipolar Membrane Electrodialysis For Sustainable Utilization Of Inorganic Salts From The Reverse Osmosis Concentration Of Real Landfill Leachate, Hao-Ran Yang, Chi-Qian Zhang, Bing Li, Jia-Cheng Yang, Yu-Ming Zheng, Mohammad Younas, Zhi-Hua Zheng Mar 2023

Bipolar Membrane Electrodialysis For Sustainable Utilization Of Inorganic Salts From The Reverse Osmosis Concentration Of Real Landfill Leachate, Hao-Ran Yang, Chi-Qian Zhang, Bing Li, Jia-Cheng Yang, Yu-Ming Zheng, Mohammad Younas, Zhi-Hua Zheng

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Developing an effective resource utilization method for landfill leachate reverse osmosis concentrate (LLRC) remains a challenge because of the high concentrations of inorganic salts and refractory organic compounds. This study applied a bipolar membrane electrodialysis (BMED) to separate inorganic salts from real LLRC while simultaneously reclaiming inorganic acids and bases. The performance of BMED was affected by operating parameters, such as operating voltage, membrane surface flow velocity, and initial acid-base concentration. With optimized operating parameters, the reclaimed acid-base concentrations, desalination rate, and current efficiency were higher with less energy consumption. Ultimately, 0.41 mol/L acids and 0.40 mol/L bases were reclaimed …


Bioaugmentation With Tetrasphaera To Improve Biological Phosphorus Removal From Anaerobic Digestate Of Swine Wastewater, Jiaxin Wang, Chiqian Zhang, Ping Li, Hui Xu, Weiqu Wang, Weizhao Yin, Jinhua Wu, Zhiqiang Hu Feb 2023

Bioaugmentation With Tetrasphaera To Improve Biological Phosphorus Removal From Anaerobic Digestate Of Swine Wastewater, Jiaxin Wang, Chiqian Zhang, Ping Li, Hui Xu, Weiqu Wang, Weizhao Yin, Jinhua Wu, Zhiqiang Hu

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Tetrasphaera-enhanced biological phosphorus removal (T-EBPR) was developed by augmenting conventional EBPR (C-EBPR) with Tetrasphaera to improve phosphorus removal from anaerobic digestate of swine wastewater. At influent total phosphorus (TP) concentrations of 45 to 55 mg/L, T-EBPR achieved effluent TP concentration of 4.17 ± 1.02 mg/L, 54% lower than that in C-EBPR (8.98 ± 0.76 mg/L). The enhanced phosphorous removal was presumably due to the synergistic effect of Candidatus Accumulibacter and Tetrasphaera occupying different ecological niches. Bioaugmentation with Tetrasphaera promoted the polyphosphate accumulation metabolism depending more on the glycolysis pathway, as evidenced by an increase in intracellular storage compounds of glycogen …