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http://dx.doi.org/10.4491/eer.2018.442

Growth and nutrient removal of Chlorella vulgaris in ammonia-reduced raw and anaerobically-digested piggery wastewaters  

Kwon, Gyutae (Department of Environmental Engineering and Energy, Myongji University)
Nam, Ji-Hyun (Water Supply and Sewerage Research Division, National Institute of Environmental Research)
Kim, Dong-Min (Department of Environmental Engineering and Energy, Myongji University)
Song, Chulwoo (BKT Co. Ltd.)
Jahng, Deokjin (Department of Environmental Engineering and Energy, Myongji University)
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Environmental Engineering Research / v.25, no.2, 2020 , pp. 135-146 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was aimed to investigate the possibility of using raw and anaerobically-digested piggery wastewater as culture media for a green microalga Chlorella vulgaris (C. vulgaris). Due to high concentration of ammonia and dark color, the microalga did not grow well in this wastewater. In order to solve this problem, air stripping and NaOCl-treatment were applied to reduce the concentration of NH3-N and the color intensity from the wastewater. Algal growth was monitored in terms of specific growth rate, biomass productivity, and nutrient removal efficiency. As a result, C. vulgaris grew without any sign of inhibition in air-stripped and 10-folds diluted anaerobically-digested piggery wastewater with enhanced biomass productivity of 0.57 g/L·d and nutrient removal of 98.7-99.8% for NH3-N and 41.0-62.5% for total phosphorus. However, NaOCl-treatment showed no significant effect on growth of C. vulgaris, although dark color was removed greatly. Interestingly, despite that the soluble organic concentration after air stripping was still high, the biomass productivity was 4.4 times higher than BG-11. Moreover, air stripping was identically effective for raw piggery wastewater as for anaerobic digestate. Therefore, it was concluded that air stripping was a very effective method for culturing microalgae and removing nutrients from raw and anaerobically-digested piggery wastewaters.
Keywords
Air stripping; Ammonia; Anaerobic digestate of piggery wastewater; Biomass productivity; Chlorella vulgaris; Nutrient removal;
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