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Project

Sulfide-based nitrogen removal from municipal wastewater
Code
01D30918
Duration
01 October 2018 → 30 September 2022
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Applied mathematics in specific fields not elsewhere classified
    • Computer architecture and networks not elsewhere classified
    • Distributed computing not elsewhere classified
    • Information sciences not elsewhere classified
    • Information systems not elsewhere classified
    • Programming languages not elsewhere classified
    • Scientific computing not elsewhere classified
    • Theoretical computer science not elsewhere classified
    • Visual computing not elsewhere classified
    • Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified
  • Engineering and technology
    • Catalysis and reacting systems engineering not elsewhere classified
    • Chemical product design and formulation not elsewhere classified
    • Modelling, simulation and optimisation
    • Process engineering not elsewhere classified
    • Separation and membrane technologies not elsewhere classified
    • Sustainable and environmental engineering not elsewhere classified
    • Transport phenomena not elsewhere classified
    • Other (bio)chemical engineering not elsewhere classified
Keywords
wastewater treatment granular sludge denitrification lab-scale experiments physical-based modelling numerical simulation
 
Project description
 

This doctoral research project focuses on sulfide-based nitrogen removal from anaerobically pretreated municipal wastewater. The first research line concerns the optimization of sulfide-based nitrogen removal over nitrate in granular sludge reactors. The second research line aims at the realization and optimization of a short-cut sulfide-based nitrogen removal process over nitrite. Reducing emissions of the greenhouse gases N2O and methane, constitutes the third objective.