Agriculture Waste as Slow Carbon Releasing Source of Mixotrophic Denitrification Process for Treating Low C/N Wastewater
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methodology
2.1. Materials
2.2. The Carbon Release Column Experiment
2.3. The Denitrification Experiment
2.3.1. Heterotrophic Denitrification
2.3.2. Mixotrophic Denitrification
2.4. The Analytic Methods
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. The Carbon and Nutrient Release from Solid Carbon Source
3.2. The Denitrification Performance of the Solid Carbon Source
3.3. The Mixotrophic Denitrification
3.3.1. The Mixed Corncob and S0 for Mixotrophic Denitrification
3.3.2. The Separated Corncob and S0 for Mixotrophic Denitrification
3.4. The Microorganism in the Denitrification
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Hong, X.; Tang, L.; Feng, H.; Zhang, X.; Hu, X. Agriculture Waste as Slow Carbon Releasing Source of Mixotrophic Denitrification Process for Treating Low C/N Wastewater. Separations 2022, 9, 323. https://doi.org/10.3390/separations9100323
Hong X, Tang L, Feng H, Zhang X, Hu X. Agriculture Waste as Slow Carbon Releasing Source of Mixotrophic Denitrification Process for Treating Low C/N Wastewater. Separations. 2022; 9(10):323. https://doi.org/10.3390/separations9100323
Chicago/Turabian StyleHong, Xiaohong, Liaofan Tang, Haixia Feng, Xiaolei Zhang, and Xianqiong Hu. 2022. "Agriculture Waste as Slow Carbon Releasing Source of Mixotrophic Denitrification Process for Treating Low C/N Wastewater" Separations 9, no. 10: 323. https://doi.org/10.3390/separations9100323