Abstract
The dairy industry is a very productive sector worldwide and known for producing great volumes of wastewater that is rich in organic matter and nutrients. Apart from fat, the organic matter in such effluents is easily degradable, demanding an external carbon source for conventional denitrification. In this manner, new configurations of reactors promoting a suitable environment for more sustainable nitrogen removal are beyond required-they are paramount. Therefore, the performance of a structured-bed hybrid baffled reactor (SBHBR) with anaerobic and oxic/anoxic chambers was designed and assessed for treating different dairy wastewaters. A combination of baffled and biofilm-structured systems under intermittent aeration was the solution proposed to obtain a new method for nitrogen removal under low COD/TN ratios. The COD/TN ratios tested were 2.1 ± 0.6, 0.84 ± 0.5, and 0.35 ± 0.1 in the inlet of the O/A chambers for operational stages I, II, and III, respectively. The SBHBR provided COD removal efficiencies above 90% in all experimental stages. During stage III, the process had nitrification and denitrification efficiencies of 85.9 ± 17% and 85.2 ± 9%, respectively, resulting in a TN removal efficiency of 74.6 ± 14.7%. Stoichiometric calculations were used to corroborate the activity of bacteria that could perform the anammox pathways as their main mechanisms.
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