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Factors influencing the density of aerobic granular sludge
Authors:M-K H Winkler  R Kleerebezem  M Strous  K Chandran  M C M van Loosdrecht
Institution:1. Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Biotechnology, Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC, Delft, The Netherlands
2. Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstra?e 1, 28359, Bremen, Germany
3. Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, 500 West 120th Street, New York, NY, 10027, USA
Abstract:In the present study, the factors influencing density of granular sludge particles were evaluated. Granules consist of microbes, precipitates and of extracellular polymeric substance. The volume fractions of the bacterial layers were experimentally estimated by fluorescent in situ hybridisation staining. The volume fraction occupied by precipitates was determined by computed tomography scanning. PHREEQC was used to estimate potential formation of precipitates to determine a density of the inorganic fraction. Densities of bacteria were investigated by Percoll density centrifugation. The volume fractions were then coupled with the corresponding densities and the total density of a granule was calculated. The sensitivity of the density of the entire granule on the corresponding settling velocity was evaluated by changing the volume fractions of precipitates or bacteria in a settling model. Results from granules originating from a Nereda reactor for simultaneous phosphate COD and nitrogen removal revealed that phosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs) had a higher density than glycogen-accumulating organisms leading to significantly higher settling velocities for PAO-dominated granules explaining earlier observations of the segregation of the granular sludge bed inside reactors. The model showed that a small increase in the volume fraction of precipitates (1–5 %) strongly increased the granular density and thereby the settling velocity. For nitritation–anammox granular sludge, mainly granular diameter and not density differences are causing a segregation of the biomass in the bed.
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