Merle de Kreuk

TL;DR: Investigation of the feasibility of nitrogen removal from synthetic pretreated municipal wastewater by the combination of aerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and anammox showed that sludge from wastewater treatment plants designed for treating high-ammonium-load wastewaters can be used as seeding sludge for wastewater Treatment plants aimed at treating municipal wastewater that has a low temperature and low ammonium concentrations.

TL;DR: It is suggested that polymers play a significant role in providing aerobic granular sludge a highly hydrophobic, compact, strong and elastic structure.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the possibility of forming aerobic granules on domestic sewage in a sequencing batch reactor and found that short cycle times and concentrated wastewater are preferred to form granules when low strength wastewater is used.

TL;DR: The results suggest that N-removal in GSBR occurs mostly via alternating nitrification/denitrification rather than simultaneous nitrification / denitrification, supporting an alternative strategy to improve N- Removal in this promising wastewater treatment process.

TL;DR: In this article, the use of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and vanillin, as well as the recalcitrant humic acid were used to determine their impact on methanogenesis by specific methanogenic activity (SMA) assays and hydrolysis by cumulative methane production (CMP) tests under thermophilic and mesophilic conditions at a concentrations of 0.4, 0.8 and 2.0 g/L, respectively, using lignocellulosic biomass as the substrate.