PMID- 31493732 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20191009 LR - 20191010 IS - 1873-2976 (Electronic) IS - 0960-8524 (Linking) VI - 293 DP - 2019 Dec TI - Pretreatment-promoted sludge fermentation liquor improves biological nitrogen removal: Molecular insight into the role of dissolved organic matter. PG - 122082 LID - S0960-8524(19)31312-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122082 [doi] AB - Waste activated sludge (WAS) can be used as carbon sources to support biological nutrient removal (BNR). In this study, thermal-alkaline (THALK), ozonation (OZN), electrolysis (EC) and NaClO-promoted electrolysis (EC-AOP) were investigated to facilitate WAS solubilization and production of volatile fatty acids (VFAs). EEMF-PARAFAC and FT-ICR-MS were employed to characterize the transformation of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in WAS fermentation liquors at molecular level. THALK achieved the highest fluorescence intensity of C1 protein after pretreatment. Proteins and lipids were the dominant DOM in the pretreated WAS, while the DOM shifted towards substances with higher H/C and lower O/C after fermentation. The BNR results showed that THALK (100%) and EC-AOP (96.9%) outperformed other groups (78.9-90.3%) in terms of NO(3)-N removal, indicating the significant impact of DOM compositions. Overall, these results demonstrated that THALK and EC-AOP effectively enhanced release of VFAs and DOM, which subsequently improved NO(3)-N removal efficiency. CI - Copyright (c) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Yuan, Rongxue AU - Yuan R AD - School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China. FAU - Shen, Yanwen AU - Shen Y AD - School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China. FAU - Zhu, Nanwen AU - Zhu N AD - School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China; Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200292, China. Electronic address: nwzhu@sjtu.edu.cn. FAU - Yin, Changkai AU - Yin C AD - School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China. FAU - Yuan, Haiping AU - Yuan H AD - School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China. FAU - Dai, Xiaohu AU - Dai X AD - State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200292, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20190828 PL - England TA - Bioresour Technol JT - Bioresource technology JID - 9889523 RN - 0 (Sewage) RN - N762921K75 (Nitrogen) SB - IM MH - Bioreactors MH - Denitrification MH - Fermentation MH - *Nitrogen MH - *Sewage OTO - NOTNLM OT - Denitrification OT - Dissolved organic matter OT - EEMF-PARAFAC OT - FT-ICR-MS OT - Pretreatment OT - Waste activated sludge EDAT- 2019/09/08 06:00 MHDA- 2019/10/11 06:00 CRDT- 2019/09/08 06:00 PHST- 2019/07/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/08/25 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/08/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/09/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/10/11 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/09/08 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0960-8524(19)31312-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122082 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Bioresour Technol. 2019 Dec;293:122082. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122082. Epub 2019 Aug 28.