Abstract
This study evaluated the performance of two open-photobioreactors operated with microalgae-bacteria (PBR-AB) and purple photosynthetic bacteria (PBR-PPB) consortia during the treatment of diluted (5%) piggery wastewater (PWW) at multiple hydraulic retention times (HRT). At a HRT of 10.6 days, PBR-AB provided the highest removal efficiencies of nitrogen, phosphorus and zinc (87 ± 2, 91 ± 3 and 98 ± 1%), while the highest organic carbon removals were achieved in PBR-PPB (87 ± 4%). The decrease in HRT from 10.6, to 7.6 and 4.1 day caused a gradual deterioration in organic carbon and nitrogen removal, but did not influence the removal of phosphorus and Zn in both photobioreactors. The decrease in HRT caused a severe wash-out of microalgae in PBR-AB and played a key role in the structure of bacterial population in both photobioreactors. In addition, batch biodegradation tests at multiple PWW dilutions (5, 10 and 15%) confirmed the slightly better performance of algal-bacterial systems regardless of PWW dilution.
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