Microscopy and Molecular Methods to Advance Performance and Design of Hybrid Biofilm Technology

开发满足当今废水处理挑战的新技术的需求导致了创新混合废水处理技术的设计。混合移动床生物膜反应器（MBBR）和曝气生物滤池（BAF）技术被认为是将MBBR和上流式BAF技术的优点联合收割机结合成一个单一的混合系统。特别是，混合MBBR-BAF已被认为是从自养，氨去除人口的异养人口消耗容易降解的进水碳。此外，混合系统也被认为可以减轻BAF培养基上过度异养生长的不利影响。本研究计划的科学方法是隔离关键操作和设计参数的影响，不仅对系统的性能，而且对生物膜的特性和微生物群落的MBBR-BAF混合技术的双介质。

The need to develop new technologies that meet the wastewater treatment challenges of today has led to the design of innovative hybrid wastewater treatment technologies. The hybrid moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) and biological aerated filter (BAF) technology has been conceived to combine the advantages of the MBBR with an upflow BAF technology into a single hybrid system. In particular, the hybrid MBBR-BAF has been conceived to separate the heterotrophic population that consumes the readily degradable influent carbon from the autotrophic, ammonia removal population. Further, the hybrid system has also been conceived to mitigate the adverse effects of excessive heterotrophic growth on BAF media. The scientific approach of this research program is to isolate the impact of critical operational and design parameters on not only the performance of the system but also on the characteristics of the biofilm and the microbial communities on the dual media of the MBBR-BAF hybrid technology.