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The effect of glucose on nitrogen removal and microbial communities in the anammox-denitrification systems was investigated. The optimal nitrogen removal could be achieved when the influent glucose concentration was 56.4 mg L −1 . The influent nitrite to ammonium ratio of 0.95–1.40 would not obviously affect the nitrogen removal due to the coexistence of anammox, denitrification and partial denitrification. The anammox activity was deteriorated with increasing glucose concentration. When the influent glucose concentration was increased to 374.9 mg L −1 , the average ammonium removal efficiency decreased from 97% to around 10% and anammox activity was seriously inhibited. The anammox activity quickly recovered with decreasing influent glucose and increasing influent nitrite. High-throughput sequencing analysis suggested that the predominant genus changed from Candidatus Kuenenia to Diaphorobacter with the addition of glucose and then changed to Hydrogenophaga with the decrease of glucose. It indicated that organics concentration had an effect on the microbial communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two up-flow blanket filter (UBF) reactors were employed to treat synthetic wastewater with different substrate concentrations and nitrogen load rates (NLR) for 178 days. During days 0–60, higher influent NLR of R 2 (0.21–0.58 kg·m 3 ·d) slowed down the formation of anammox sludge compared with the lower NLR of R 1 (0.18–0.31 kg·m 3 ·d). Difference in sludge color and nitrogen conversion rate indicated greater anammox activity of R 2 than R 1 . During days 61–178, R 1 and R 2 achieved the maximum nitrogen removal rates (NRR) of 1.213 and 1.684 kg/(m 3 ·d) under the NLRs of 1.924 and 2.502 kg/(m 3 ·d), respectively. Furthermore, high-throughput sequencing showed that R 2 (43.5%) had a higher proportion of anammox bacteria than R 1 (37.8%) and less species. These results showed that after going through a higher NLR acclimation process during start-up period, stronger resistant capability against high impact nitrogen load and greater anammox activity were obtained by R 2 . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]