• DocumentCode
    3338758
  • Title

    Notice of Retraction
    Effect of COD/Sulfate Ratios on Batch Anaerobic Digestion Using Sulfate-Reduction Bacteria

  • Author

    Cao Heng-heng ; Zhang Hong-guo ; Luo Ding-gui ; Chen Yong-heng

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Environ. Sci. & Eng., Guangzhou Univ., Guangzhou, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    10-12 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Notice of Retraction

    After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

    We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

    The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.

    A study on effects of the COD/sulfate ratio on characteristics of sulfate-reduction bacteria (SRB) in activated sludge of a UASB reactor was performed in batch anaerobic digestion experiment. Changes of pH in samples were 7.22~8.17 which was beneficial to the growth of SRB with high sulfate removal efficiency. Sulfate reduction efficiencies of COD/sulfate ratios from 0.43 to 3.03 were 18.7(R1), 38.3(R2), 69.7(R3), 86.6(R4), 94.3(R5), 93.2(R6), 92.3(R7) %. Alone with COD/sulfate ratio increased, sulfate reduction efficiency also increased for R1~R5. However, the result was the opposite for R5~R7. It had been demonstrated that the activity of SRB at the COD/sulfate ratio of 2.17 was the best. Total sulfide produced by sulfate reached the maximum of 100 mg/L at the COD/sulfate ratio of 2.17. Sulfate reduction inhibition could not be caused by the total sulfide.
  • Keywords
    bioreactors; sludge treatment; wastewater treatment; COD; UASB reactor; activated sludge; anaerobic sludge blanket reactor; batch anaerobic digestion; sulfate ratios; sulfate removal efficiency; sulfate-reduction bacteria; wastewater treatment; Carbon; Inductors; Metals; Microorganisms; Wastewater; Wavelength measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Wuhan
  • ISSN
    2151-7614
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5088-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/icbbe.2011.5781159
  • Filename
    5781159