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Seasonal monitoring of microbial activity using conventional approaches in a full-scale urban biological wastewater treatment plant
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2023-05-01
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Demirbilek, Deniz
İpek, Ubeyde
Yetiş, Ülkü
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Activated sludge processes contain various groups of microorganisms with different metabolic properties, which are responsible for contaminants removal. Therefore, it is important to elucidate the general structure and functional properties of biomass in activated sludge processes. For this purpose, a full-scale domestic biological wastewater treatment plant in Tunceli (Turkey), Tunceli WWTP (wastewater treatment plant), was monitored to observe seasonal variations in process performance and biomass properties for a year. It was observed that nitrifying bacteria developed abundantly in the rainy and cool spring season as they were suppressed in summer because their large losses took place due to an environment containing high alkalinity values. In September, aerobic heterotrophic, nitrify, denitrify, and anaerobic activities increased. It can be said that the biomass contained young and mature microorganism in this environment in which the sludge volume index (SVI) value increased to 196 mL/g. As a result of the improvement in the structural and functional properties of biomass, the nitrogen removal efficiency reached 99%. Throughout the whole study, the structural improvement observed in biomass was reflected in its removal activity. The amount of biomass and removal activity decreased with the abundance of organic matter in the influent at the period in which biomass was closer to being categorized in the aged sludge class. The results showed that as the lowest mixed liquid suspended solids (MLSS) and mixed liquid volatile suspended solids (MLVSS) values of the year were 530 and 400 mg/L, respectively, in November 2017, MLSS and MLVSS values reached the highest amount (1700 and 1400 mg/L, respectively) in December 2017 when aerobic heterotrophic activity accelerated with a decrease in organic matter level.
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Aerobic-anoxic metabolism
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Microbial association
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Seasonal monitoring
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Treatment plant
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Urban wastewater
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/103045
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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-11155-3
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D. Demirbilek, U. İpek, and Ü. Yetiş, “Seasonal monitoring of microbial activity using conventional approaches in a full-scale urban biological wastewater treatment plant,”
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
, vol. 195, no. 5, pp. 0–0, 2023, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/103045.