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Project

Greenhouse gas reduction through innovative nitrogen removal from wastewater
Code
01DI4415
Duration
01 September 2015 → 30 April 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Engineering and technology
    • Catalysis and reacting systems engineering
    • Chemical product design and formulation
    • General chemical and biochemical engineering
    • Process engineering
    • Separation and membrane technologies
    • Sustainable and environmental engineering
    • Transport phenomena
    • Other (bio)chemical engineering
Keywords
simulation partial nitritation-anammox lab-scale experiments full-scale monitoring anammox nitrous oxide granular sludge methane modeling greenhouse gas
 
Project description
 

This doctoral research project aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (N2O, CH4 and CO2) during wastewater treatment by optimizing conventional nitrogen removal systems and by applying innovative nitrogen removal (anammox-based) technologies. The treatment of both high-strenght and lowstrength ammonium wastewaters is studied. The applied methodologies concerns a full-scale monitoring campaign, lab-scale experiments, mathematical modelling and simulation.