Nitrogen oxidation and carbon removal from high strength nitrogen habitation wastewater with nitrification in membrane aerated biological reactors

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dc.creatorPourbavarsad, Maryam Saleh (TTU)
dc.creatorJalalieh, Behnaz Jalili (TTU)
dc.creatorHarkins, Christian (TTU)
dc.creatorSevanthi, Ritesh (TTU)
dc.creatorJackson, W. Andrew (TTU)
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-16T16:01:22Z
dc.date.available2022-11-16T16:01:22Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description© 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).en_US
dc.description.abstractBioreactors for space habitation systems have unique constraints. One type of reactor that could meet these constraints are membrane aerated biological reactors (MABRs). The objective of this work was to establish the performance and optimal loading capacities of multiple MABRs with a variety of habitation waste streams. The MABRs operated over a large range of organic nitrogen (ON) and organic carbon (OC) loading rates (36–220 g/m3-d and 20–200 g/m3-d, respectively) across all wastewaters excluding humidity condensate (HC) where ON and OC loading rates ranged from 1.6 to 11 g/m3-d and 7–55 g/m3-d, respectively. OC and ON transformation rates (29–210 g/m3-d and 23–170 g/m3-d, respectively) were proportional to loading rates and similar to MABRs treating terrestrial high strength wastewaters at similar loadings. MABR maximum loading rates are limited by ON oxidation which controls pH. Above a pH of ~7.8 ON removal is inhibited by free ammonium due to the elevated concentrations of ON in all wastewaters excluding HC. While loading rates are lower than typical terrestrial systems, the MABRs stably operated for up to 5 years with limited maintenance and no solids processing. This work supports the use of MABRs to reliably stabilize habitation wastewaters with minimal consumables. These results also support the use of these MABRs for terrestrial high strength, low volume wastewaters where complex technology may be unsupportable, such as in rural or developing communities with no centralized treatment or for applications where typical two-phase aeration can lead to undesirable off gassing.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPourbavarsad, M. S., Jalalieh, B. J., Harkins, C., Sevanthi, R., & Jackson, W. A. (2021). Nitrogen oxidation and carbon removal from high strength nitrogen habitation wastewater with nitrification in membrane aerated biological reactors. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 9(5), 106271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2021.106271en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2021.106271
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2346/90314
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.subjectBiological Pretreatmenten_US
dc.subjectNitrificationen_US
dc.subjectCarbon Removalen_US
dc.subjectMembrane Aerated Bioreactor (MABR)en_US
dc.subjectHabitation Wastewateren_US
dc.subjectWater Recoveryen_US
dc.titleNitrogen oxidation and carbon removal from high strength nitrogen habitation wastewater with nitrification in membrane aerated biological reactorsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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