Abstract
The applicability of four industrial waste streams from potato processing, canola processing and oil refining, biodiesel production (glycerol), and glycol as substitutes to methanol and ethanol in denitrification of anaerobically digested sludge dewatering liquor (centrate) was evaluated in bench-scale sequencing batch reactors. It was found that glycerol was the best substitute with the specific denitrification rate (SDNR) of 13 mg NO 3-N/(g VSS·h) followed by potato processing wastewater at 12 mg NO 3-N/(g VSS·h ). Both substrates produced faster SDNR than methanol's 10 mg NO 3-N/(g VSS·h ); however, they were inferior to ethanol's 17 mg NO 3-N/(g VSS·h ). Glycol had SDNR of 8 mg NO 3-N/(g VSS·h ) and demonstrated a very fast acclimation rate, i.e. the response in increased denitrification rate was visible in three days following glycol addition. Canola processing and oil refining wastewater was considered an inappropriate carbon source due to a low SDNR of 5 mg NO 3-N/(g VSS·h ) and apparent inhibitory effect on nitrification.
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