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Upcoming webinar – Confidence over compliance: Raising the bar with total adenylate monitoring for advanced food safety
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Sequencing your bioreactor – Who’s doing the work?
Advancements in metagenomics is allowing us to question old assumptions about wastewater treatment.
It was understood that PAOs required VFAs, specifically acetic or propanoic acid, in the anaerobic zone.
In the early days, this explained why EBPR processes worked better in hot climates where fermentation readily occurs in the sewage collection system.
In systems with insufficient VFAs, an external sludge fermentation process needed to be added to supplement the PAOs. However, the reliance on VFAs is only true for some PAOs, such as Accumulibacter. There is also a group of PAOs, such as Tetrasphaera, that do not rely on VFAs and can perform fermentation as well as phosphorus accumulation. Tetrasphaera requires extended residence times in environments with a low ORP (<200 mV) to perform fermentation. Conventional EBPR processes – where all the primary effluent passes through the first stage anaerobic zone – is not conducive to Tetrasphaera fermentation because the residence time is too short and the ORP is too high. Alternative configurations – where a small, controlled portion of the primary effluent is sent to anaerobic zone (with the remaining flow bypassed to the anoxic or aerobic zone) – is more favourable to Tetrasphaera growth. In these alternate configurations, Tetrasphaera has been shown to have higher abundances relative to Accumulibacter.
Advancements in metagenomics is allowing us to question old assumptions about wastewater treatment.
This includes assumptions about the unit processes (ie. side stream vs first stage anaerobic zones) and the operational metrics (ie. SRT, solids inventory) required to achieve treatment.
Understanding the microbial community composition through metagenomics can drastically increase the operational knowledge of a treatment plant. Tetrasphaera and Accumulibacter can both accomplish EBPR, however the mechanism is very different.
Interested in sequencing your wastewater treatment plant? Luminultra can help! Luminultra offers easy sampling and preservation kits, a powerful and easy to understand dashboard and fast turnaround times. Contact us today to incorporate NGS into your monitoring program.
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Luminultra strengthens position in European water diagnostics market with strategic acquisition of GL Biocontrol
The acquisition marks Luminultra’s eighth in eight years – each one a targeted step toward building a more comprehensive, client-focused solutions portfolio.
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Relay™ by Luminultra
Relay™ is a value-add software tool that simplifies and guides your ATP testing, available at no cost to all customers.
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Diagnosing inefficient biological phosphorus removal
By leveraging Luminultra’s mail-in GeneCount services, a wastewater treatment plant was able to identify the underlying causes of poor biological phosphorus removal in one of their two bioreactors.
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Measuring living biomass in bioreactors with ATP monitoring
Bioreactors harness the ability of naturally-occurring microorganisms to break down environmental contaminants discharged from cities and industries.
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Understanding loss of nitrification at a refinery wastewater treatment plant using 16S rRNA sequencing
A refinery wastewater treatment plant was monitored over several years to investigate the loss of complete nitrification.
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Identifying contaminated groundwater wells with ATP testing
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Why you should pay attention to biofilms
Understanding the complexity of biofilms and their impact on systems
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Biomass inventory management using 2nd Generation ATP®
The activated sludge process is used to concentrate the biomass which naturally degrades carbonaceous substances found in most industrial and municipal waste waters.
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