This study investigated the combination of two kinds of autotrophic bacteria, named Anammox and Nitrosomonas in a reactor to remove ammonium existed in swine wastewater. The reactor which was operated with swine wastewater taken from Dong A pig breeding enterprise (Di An, Binh Duong) had 15 liters volume. | Vietnam Journal of Science and Technology 55 (4C) (2017) 264-270 APPLICATION OF NITROSOMONAS AND ANAMMOX COMBINATION IN A REACTOR FOR AMMONIUM REMOVAL IN SWINE WASTEWATER Dang Van Dien1, *, Le Cong Nhat Phuong2, Nguyen Phuoc Dan3 1 Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry, 140 Le Trong Tan, Tan Phu district, HCMC 2 Institute of Tropical Biology, VAST, 9/621 Ha Noi highway, Thu Duc district, HCMC 3 Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, 268 Ly Thuong Kiet, district 10, HCMC * Email: diendv@ Received: 11 August 2017; Accepted for publication: 17 October 2017 ABSTRACT This study investigated the combination of two kinds of autotrophic bacteria, named Anammox and Nitrosomonas in a reactor to remove ammonium existed in swine wastewater. The reactor which was operated with swine wastewater taken from Dong A pig breeding enterprise (Di An, Binh Duong) had 15 liters volume. The biomass carrier used in this model was made from the synthetic acrylic with attached capacity of . The sludge was taken from a reactor using partial nitritation/Anammox processes of a previous study at Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. In 118 days of operation, average influent ammonium was 350mg/l, feeding to three loading rates (LR) , , kg N-NH4+/m3/day with flow rate 20, 30, 40 liters, respectively. The highest efficiency was found at the first loading rate kg N-NH4+/m3/day with %. The other loading rates and kg NNH4+/m3/day gave lower efficiency, and %, respectively. VSS at the beginning and the end of the operation were 4g/l and g/l, respectively. The optimum pH for the reactor was in range of - . Keywords: anammox, ammonium, nitrosomonas, swine wastewater. 1. INTRODUCTION . Biochemical mechanism Based on investigation results by using isotopic method 15N, a biochemical mechanism for Anammox process was proposed [1]. The initial studies of Anammox showed that the combination .
