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To treat high salinity wastewater from the mustard pickling industry, a combined anaerobic, partial nitritation (PN), and anammox process was employed using three connected reactors: an anaerobic sequencing batch biofilm reactor (ASBBR) for anaerobic treatment, a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) for PN, and an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) for anammox. The start-up of the three individual reactors was investigated. Results showed that each reactor started up successfully, notwithstanding the stepwise increase of influent salinity to about 16.1 g NaCl/L. In the ASBBR, 89.7 % of chemical oxygen demand in the influent was removed and organic nitrogen was converted to ammonium (NH4 +-N). The SBR performed well with NO3 −-N concentration of 4.9 mg/L and ratio of NO2 −-N to NH4 +-N at the range of 1.0 to 1.3 in the effluent, which favored the anammox process. After the start-up of the UASB, the anammox process also showed stability and efficiency with a high total nitrogen removal efficiency of 86.2 % under high salinity of 12.0 g NaCl/L and nitrogen loading rate of 258 mg/(L · day).
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51178484 and 51278509), Chongqing Science and Technology Commission (cstc2012ggB20002 and cstc2014yykfC0058), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (106112012CDJZR215503).
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Chen, YP., Ma, TF., Hu, X. et al. Start-Up of a Combined Anaerobic/Partial Nitritation/ANAMMOX Process for High-Salt Mustard Wastewater Treatment. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 175, 119–134 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12010-014-1247-x
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