BIOLOGICAL REMOVAL OF NITROGEN FROM UREA FERTILIZER PLANT EFFLUENT

Authors
YADAV U THAKUR A SHANKAR G
Citation
U. Yadav et al., BIOLOGICAL REMOVAL OF NITROGEN FROM UREA FERTILIZER PLANT EFFLUENT, Journal of Microbial Biotechnology, 8(1), 1993, pp. 29-38
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Journal title
Journal of Microbial Biotechnology → ACNP
ISSN journal
02568551
Volume
8
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
29 - 38
Database
ISI
SICI code
0256-8551(1993)8:1<29:BRONFU>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
This paper deals with the biological removal of urea nitrogen and ammo nia nitrogen from the urea fertilizer plant effluent In the present st udy a packed bed reactor immobilized with the culture of Bacillus spha ericus was utilized to study the effect of pH and temperature on COD r emoval, Urea-N and Ammonia-N removal. The optimum temperatures and pH for urea removal was observed at 30-degrees-C and 10-degrees-C respect ively while in case of ammonia maximum removal was observed at pH 11 a nd temperature 30-degrees-C . Maximum COD removal was also observed at temperature 30-degrees-C and pH 11.