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High-Rate Partial Nitritation of Municipal Wastewater after Psychrophilic Anaerobic Pretreatment Vojtech Kouba,*,† Dana Vejmelkova,† Eva Proksova,† Helene Wiesinger,‡ Martin Concha,† Petr Dolejs,† Jakub Hejnic,† Pavel Jenicek,† and Jan Bartacek† †
University of Chemistry and Technology, Technicka 5, 166 28 Prague, Czech Republic ETH Zürich, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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ABSTRACT: Partial nitritation/anammox can provide energy-efficient nitrogen removal from the main stream of municipal wastewater. The main bottleneck is the growth of nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB) at low temperatures (
