Anammox Membrane Bioreactor
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Membrane Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 405
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) has been a hotspot technology for nitrogen-containing wastewater treatment in recent years owing to its environmentally friendly and cost-effective advantages. However, the slow growth rate of anammox bacteria is a critical challenge before anammox technology can be widely applied, which also makes biomass retention capacity important for the anammox process. Membrane bioreactor (MBR) allows a complete separation of hydraulic retention time (HRT) and sludge retention time (SRT) by using membrane filtration, so it could achieve high biomass concentration and establish a proper environment for the cultivation of these slow-growth bacteria.
It could be conceivable that the application of MBRs in anammox processes enhances potential in anammox biomass enrichment and improves nitrogen removal performance, while anammox membrane bioreactor is still facing some obstacles on its way to practical application, such as membrane fouling and cleaning, structure and configuration design, fast start-up and stable operation of the reactor, and so on. This Special Issue aims to demonstrate how innovative research for anammox membrane bioreactor in wastewater treatment to advance our understanding of their structure, performance, processes, and applications.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Membrane fouling control;
- Membrane modification;
- Catalytic/photocatalytic/electro and other novel anammox MBRs;
- Anaerobic dynamic membrane bioreactor (AnDMBR);
- Reactor performance and microbial community structure;
- Advanced nitrogen removal;
- Material reduction and energy neutrality for sustainable nitrogen management;
- Synergy between anammox and other bacteria/archaea;
- Physiological Characterization of anammox bacteria;
- Enrichment of anammox bacteria;
- Cultivation of planktonic anammox bacteria.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Yayi Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- anammox membrane bioreactor
- membrane fouling
- membrane modification
- nitrogen removal
- microbial community
- planktonic cells
- enrichment methods
- energy neutrality
- dynamic membrane bioreactor
