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David Gregory Weissbrodt

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New-generation bioprocesses using granular sludge aim for a high-rate removal of nutrients from wastewater with low footprint. Achieving enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) relies on the design of sludge beds and wastewater feeding conditions to ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Multilevel Correlations in the Biological Phosphorus Removal Process: from Bacterial Enrichment to Conductivity-Based Metabolic Batch Tests and Polyphosphatase Assays

Christof Holliger, Julien Maillard, Alessandro Brovelli, David Gregory Weissbrodt, Alexandre Chabrelie, Jonathan May

Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) from wastewater relies on the preferential selection of active polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (PAO) in the underlying bacterial community continuum. Efficient management of the bacterial resource requires ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Towards Management of the Bacterial Resource for Nutrient Removal in Granular Sludge Biofilm Systems

Christof Holliger, David Gregory Weissbrodt

The granular sludge biofilm sequencing batch reactor technology can become a next generation standard for high-rate biological nutrient removal from wastewater. This attractive process innovation based on mobile granular biofilms formed by self-aggregation ...

University of Verona2014

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Intensive nutrient removal from wastewater in anaerobic–aerobic systems using granular sludge should rely on optimal balances at biofilm and microbial ecology levels. This study targets the impacts of reactor characteristics and fluctuations in operation c ...

Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford2014

Modelling bacterial selection during the plug-flow feeding phase of aerobic granular sludge biofilm reactors

Christof Holliger, David Gregory Weissbrodt

A mathematical model was developed to investigate hydraulic transport and bacterial selection during slow up-flow anaerobic feeding (0.9 m h-1) of wastewater across the settled bed of granular sludge biofilms used in column-type sequencing-batch reactors t ...

International Water Association2014

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Aerobic granular sludge technology is attractive for intensified biological nutrient removal from wastewater and secondary clarification in single sequencing batch reactors. A methodology combining molecular fingerprinting, pyrosequencing-based identificat ...

2014

Introduction Aerobic granular sludge used for intensified biological wastewater treatment is based on fast-settling mobile biofilms with a gel-like consistence, called “granules”, formed from activated sludge flocs (Seviour et al. 2012). Fundamental aspect ...

University of Vienna2014

Bacterial Resource Management for Nutrient Removal in Aerobic Granular Sludge Wastewater Treatment Systems

David Gregory Weissbrodt

The approach of wastewater treatment has shifted towards a holistic view in order to achieve sustainability in addition to environmental protection. The aerobic granular sludge (AGS) technology, which relies on the use of fast-settling granular biofilms ca ...

EPFL2013

Bacterial resource management for nutrient removal in aerobic granular sludge

David Gregory Weissbrodt

A holistic approach was developed towards efficient bacterial resource management for nutrient removal from wastewater in aerobic granular sludge sequencing batch reactors. Multiple reactor experiments from granulation start-up to operation at steady-state ...

2013

Assessment of bacterial and structural dynamics in aerobic granular sludge biofilms

Christof Holliger, Yoan Rappaz, David Gregory Weissbrodt

Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) is based on self-granulated flocs forming mobile biofilms with a gel-like consistence. Bacterial and structural dynamics from flocs to granules were followed in anaerobic-aerobic sequencing batch reactors (SBR) fed with synthe ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2013

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