S Zabczyński

Publications (2)1.12 Total impact

• Article: Biological nitrogen removal from landfill leachate by deammonification assisted by heterotrophic denitrification in a rotating biological contactor (RBC).

  G Cema, J Wiszniowski, S Zabczyński, E Zabłocka-Godlewska, A Raszka, J Surmacz-Górska
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  ABSTRACT: Due to negative environmental effects of nitrogen discharge to recipients and increasingly stringent effluent standards, effective nitrogen removal is necessity. Biological methods are the simplest and cheapest way to treat wastewater; however, it may become an extremely expensive option when high influent nitrogen concentrations are measured and there is a lack of biodegradable organic carbon. Therefore, there is a great need to find new solutions and improve existing technologies. The deammonification is an excellent example of such a new process that requires considerably low amounts of organic carbon and oxygen in comparison to conventional nitrification/denitrification. The main objective of presented research was to investigate an Anammox process accompanied with autotrophic nitrification and heterotrophic denitrification in one rotating biological contactor (RBC). During the research period, it was possible to carry out the Anammox process in low temperature below 20 'C. Additionally, it was found that the process is insensitive to high nitrite concentration in the reactor, up to 100 g NO2-N m(-3), resulting only in a temporary decrease in removal rates. Furthermore, analysis of data indicated that the Stover-Kincannon model can be used for the description of ammonium and nitrite removal processes.
  Water Science & Technology 02/2007; 55(8-9):35-42. · 1.12 Impact Factor
• Article: Nitrification of ammonia nitrogen high concentration in membrane assisted bioreactor.

  S Zabczyński, J Surmacz-Górska, K Miksch
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  ABSTRACT: Use of the membrane-assisted bioreactors (MBR) in wastewater treatment can bring a lot of advantages. Usually COD removal achieves level 90% and nitrification of ammonia nitrogen concentrations typical for municipal wastewater performs without any disturbances, what was confirmed by large number of experiments. However, inhibition of nitrification of the high ammonia nitrogen concentration was noticed. In this study, the performance of ammonia-rich wastewater nitrification in membrane-assisted bioreactor (MBR) was examined. With SRT of 40, 32, 24 and 16 days any nitrification inhibition effect wasn't noticed. Ammonia nitrogen removal was around 98% and full nitrification was observed. At the sludge age equal to 12 d the first stage of nitrification was full, but the second stage of nitrification was incomplete. The variation in number and presence of the higher organisms were noticed at the all examined sludge ages. With SRT of 40, 32, 24 and 16 days the free ciliates were prominent organisms. At the sludge age of 12 days the domination of flagellates was observed The kinetic constants of the high-ammonia wastewater nitrification were calculated The average value of Vmax at the sludge age 12, 16 and 24 days was constant (4.7 mg NH4(+)-N/g MLSS h, 4.8 mg NH4(+)-N/g MLSS h and 4.8 mg NH4(+)-N/g MLSS, respectively), but the value of Km rose, when the sludge age increased (6.8 mg NH4(+)-N/L for 12 days, 11.3 mg NH4(+)-N/L for 16 days, 21.6 mg NH4(+)-N/L for 24 days). At the sludge age 32 and 40 days the increase of Vmax was observed (7.2 mg NH4(+)-N/g MLSS h and 12.5 mg NH4(+)-N/g MLSS h, respectively) and, also, changes of Km (6.8 mg NH4(+)-N/L and 44 mg NH4(+)-N/L, respectively. Concerning the second stage of nitrification value of Vmax decreased with the increase of the sludge age and the average Km varied from 20.3 to 31.3 mg NO2(-)-N/L.
  Communications in agricultural and applied biological sciences 02/2003; 68(2 Pt A):93-100.