TY - JOUR ID - 10.1016/j.jes.2016.06.012 TI - Rapid aerobic granulation in an SBR treating piggery wastewater by seeding sludge from a municipal WWTP AU - Jun Liu AU - Jun Li AU - Xiaodong Wang AU - Qi Zhang AU - Helen Littleton VL - 29 IS - 1 PB - SP - 332 EP - 341 PY - 2017/01/01/ JF - Journal of Environmental Sciences JA - J. Environ. Sci. UR - http://www.jesc.ac.cn/jesc_en/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=S1001074216302248&flag=1 KW - Rapid aerobic granulation; Piggery wastewater; Microbial community; Granular structure AB - Aerobic sludge granulation was rapidly obtained in the erlenmeyer bottle and sequencing batch reactor (SBR) using piggery wastewater. Aerobic granulation occurred on day 3 and granules with mean diameter of 0.2 mm and SVI30 of 20.3 mL/g formed in SBR on day 18. High concentrations of Ca and Fe in the raw piggery wastewater and operating mode accelerated aerobic granulation, even though the seed sludge was from a municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). Alpha diversity analysis revealed Operational Taxonomic Units, Shannon, ACE and Chao 1 indexes in aerobic granules were 2013, 5.51, 4665.5 and 3734.5, which were obviously lower compared to seed sludge. The percentages of major microbial communities, such as Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes were obviously higher in aerobic granules than seed sludge. Chloroflexi, Planctomycetes, Actinobacteria, TM7 and Acidobacteria showed much higher abundances in the inoculum. The main reasons might be the characteristics of raw piggery wastewater and granule structure. ER -