New bacteria from anammox wastewater treatment Removal of nitrogen from wastewater is crucial to maintain water quality. A novel wastewater trea...

Published November 19, 2016 10:37 by LALA BEHARI SUKLA, Research Professor , Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar

New bacteria from anammox wastewater treatment Removal of nitrogen from wastewater is crucial to maintain water quality. A novel wastewater treatment technology based on "anammox" bacteria, capable of removal of nitrogen compounds anaerobically, has greatly improved this process. After a decade of operation of a full scale anammox reactor, researchers of the Radboud University and BE-Basic have studied the microorganisms in that a reactor and found unexpected diversity in this man-made system, including some "microbial dark matter". The work, published on March 31 by the journal Nature Communications , can help improving the performance of anammox reactors. http://phys.org/news/2016-03-bacteria-anammox-wastewater-treatment.html

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this is a very exciting news. i am wondering whether it is possible to combine this bacteria with natural zeolite(clinoptilolite) to enhance the performance of both material. i raise this question because we are using in China the combination of natural zeolite with EM bacteria to treat soil and water which had concluded with outstanding results.

Published November 22, 2016 01:06 by 华军姜, Vice president - Beijing Guotoushengshi Science and Technology Co.,Ltd.

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Since the bacterium is new one, further study with zeolite may be investigated for water treatment.

Published November 22, 2016 08:16 by LALA BEHARI SUKLA, Research Professor , Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar

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