Tommaso Lotti

TL;DR: The ANAMMOX performance recovered under sulfide-S level of 8 mg L(-1) with a steady NRR increasing speed, linear relationship between the NRR and operation time, and the synchronic reduce in the specific ANAM MOX activity and the biomass extended the apparent doubling time of the nitrogen removal capacity and decreased biomass growth rate.

TL;DR: A membrane bioreactor (MBR) based method for growing a highly enriched anammox microbial community and the intrinsic nitrite half saturation constant was identified to be as low as 35 μg-N L(-)(1).

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: Evaluation of the autotrophic nitrogen removal in a plug-flow granular sludge-based pilot-scale reactor continuously fed with the actual effluent of the A-stage of the WWTP of Dokhaven, Rotterdam found that anammox bacteria were able to grow under mainstream WWTP conditions and new granules were formed and efficiently retained in the system.

TL;DR: This study is a proof of concept for the application of the autotrophic nitrogen removal in a single reactor with granular sludge at main stream conditions and shows a slow but unrestrainable decrease in anammox activity and process efficiency.