Extracellular polymeric substances protect Escherichia coli from organic solvents

Peng-Fei Xia, Qian Li, Lin-Rui Tan, Xue-Fei Sun, Chao Song and Shu-Guang Wang

RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 59438
DOI: 10.1039/C6RA11707D

The origin of waste activated sludge affects the enhancement of anaerobic digestion by free nitrous acid pre-treatment

Angelica Guerrero Calderon, Haoran Duan, Kai Yee Seo, Catherine Macintosh, Sergi Astals, Kaili Li, Jingjing Wan, Huijuan Li, Nova Maulani, Zhuan Khai Lim, Zhiguo Yuan and Shihu Hu

Science of The Total Environment, 2021, 795, 148831
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148831

Reducing N2O Emission from a Domestic-Strength Nitrifying Culture by Free Nitrous Acid-Based Sludge Treatment

Dongbo Wang, Qilin Wang, Andrew Elohim Laloo and Zhiguo Yuan

Environ. Sci. Technol., 2016, 50, 7425
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b00660

Insights into in-situ free nitrous acid induced extracellular polymeric substances changes and membrane fouling mitigation in a nitritation membrane bioreactor

Yishuai Jiang, Xiaoyuan Zhang, Hiroshige Shiota and Wun Jern Ng

Water Research, 2025, 279, 123446
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2025.123446

Effect of free nitrous acid on extracellular polymeric substances production and membrane fouling in a nitritation membrane bioreactor

Yishuai Jiang, Xiaoyuan Zhang, Leong Soon Poh and Wun Jern Ng

Chemosphere, 2023, 340, 139913
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139913

Impact of free nitrous acid shock and dissolved oxygen limitation on nitritation maintenance and nitrous oxide emission in a membrane bioreactor

Yishuai Jiang, Leong Soon Poh, Choon-Ping Lim and Wun Jern Ng

Science of The Total Environment, 2019, 660, 11
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.024

Enhancing anaerobic digestion using free nitrous acid: Identifying the optimal pre-treatment condition in continuous operation

Angelica Guerrero Calderon, Haoran Duan, Xiaoguang Chen, Ziping Wu, Wenbo Yu, Carlos E. Silva, Yijing Li, Sohan Shrestha, Zhiyao Wang, Jurg Keller, Zhongwei Chen, Zhiguo Yuan and Shihu Hu

Water Research, 2021, 205, 117694
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117694

Achieving methane production enhancement from waste activated sludge with sulfite pretreatment: Feasibility, kinetics and mechanism study

Feixiang Zan, Qian Zeng, Tianwei Hao, George A. Ekama, Xiaodi Hao and Guanghao Chen

Water Research, 2019, 158, 438
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.04.048

Overview of key operation factors and strategies for improving fermentative volatile fatty acid production and product regulation from sewage sludge

Wei Fang, Xuedong Zhang, Panyue Zhang, Jijun Wan, Hongxiao Guo, Dara S.M. Ghasimi, Xavier Carol Morera and Tao Zhang

Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2020, 87, 93
DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2019.05.027

The negative effects of the excessive nitrite accumulation raised by anaerobic bioaugmentation on bioremediation of PAH-contaminated soil

Nan Zhou, Zhuoyue Yang, Jing Zhang, Zuotao Zhang and Hui Wang

Bioresource Technology, 2024, 393, 130090
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.130090

Free nitrous acid pre-treatment of waste activated sludge enhances volatile solids destruction and improves sludge dewaterability in continuous anaerobic digestion

Wei Wei, Qilin Wang, Liguo Zhang, Andrew Laloo, Haoran Duan, Damien J. Batstone and Zhiguo Yuan

Water Research, 2018, 130, 13
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2017.11.050

Removal of pathogenic indicator microorganisms during partial nitrification: the role of free nitrous acid

Jiaojiao Xu, Xiaotian Chen, Rui Tang, Jingwei Feng, Shoujun Yuan, Wei Wang and Zhen-Hu Hu

Front. Environ. Sci. Eng., 2024, 18
DOI: 10.1007/s11783-024-1793-6

Insight into the fenton-induced degradation process of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) extracted from activated sludge

Bin-Bin Wang, Xiang Shi, Xue-Ting Liu, Jin-Te Zou, Hui-Juan Li, Dang-Cong Peng and Feng He

Chemosphere, 2019, 234, 318
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.06.078

Enhancing post aerobic digestion of full-scale anaerobically digested sludge using free nitrous acid pretreatment

Qilin Wang, Xu Zhou, Lai Peng, Dongbo Wang, Guo-Jun Xie and Zhiguo Yuan

Chemosphere, 2016, 150, 152
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.02.035

Enhancing post anaerobic digestion of full-scale anaerobically digested sludge using free nitrous acid treatment

Tingting Zhang, Qilin Wang, Liu Ye and Zhiguo Yuan

Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2016, 43, 713
DOI: 10.1007/s10295-016-1742-x

A green, hybrid cleaning strategy for the mitigation of biofouling deposition in the elevated salinity forward osmosis membrane bioreactor (FOMBR) operation

Nur Hafizah Ab Hamid, David K. Wang, Simon Smart and Liu Ye

Chemosphere, 2022, 288, 132612
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.132612

Effect of citric acid on extracellular polymeric substances disruption and cell lysis in the waste activated sludge by pH regulation

Xuewei Wu, Xiaoming Li, Qi Yang, Qiuxiang Xu, Ziletao Tao, Xiaoding Huang, You Wu, Lingjuan Tao, Zhoujie Pi, Zhuo Chen and Dongbo Wang

Bioresource Technology, 2020, 302, 122859
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.122859

Free nitrous acid-assisted asymmetrical alternating current electrochemistry (FNA-AACE) for multi-heavy metals decontamination in waste activated sludge

Zhibo Han, Yili Wang, Daxin Zhang, Xiaoyang Fan, Shuting Zhang and Meilin Liu

Water Research, 2023, 242, 120259
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.120259

Enhancing the digestion of waste activated sludge through nitrite addition: insight on mechanism through profiles of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and microbial communities

Xiaoling Wang, Liang Zhang, Yongzhen Peng, Qiong Zhang, Jialin Li and Shenhua Yang

Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2019, 369, 164
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.02.023

Potential of free nitrous acid (FNA) for sludge treatment and resource recovery from waste activated sludge: A review

Tan Jiang, Xiaodi Li, Jiayi Yang, Lu Wang, Wen Wang, Li Zhang and Bo Wang

Journal of Environmental Management, 2024, 360, 121170
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121170

Fast start-up of anammox process: Effects of extracellular polymeric substances addition on performance, granule properties, and bacterial community structure

Dongmin Yang, Jialiang Zuo, Cancan Jiang, Danhua Wang, Likun Gu, Shujun Zhang, Huijie Lu, Dongsheng Wang, Shengjun Xu, Zhihui Bai and Xuliang Zhuang

Journal of Environmental Management, 2023, 338, 117836
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117836

Structural Changes in Cell-Wall and Cell-Membrane Organic Materials Following Exposure to Free Nitrous Acid

Mariella Chislett, Jianhua Guo, Philip L. Bond, Alun Jones and Zhiguo Yuan

Environ. Sci. Technol., 2020, 54, 10301
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c01453

Nitrite addition to acidified sludge significantly improves digestibility, toxic metal removal, dewaterability and pathogen reduction

Fangzhou Du, Jürg Keller, Zhiguo Yuan, Damien J. Batstone, Stefano Freguia and Ilje Pikaar

Sci Rep, 2016, 6
DOI: 10.1038/srep39795

Role of free nitrous acid in the pretreatment of waste activated sludge: Extracellular polymeric substances disruption or cells lysis?

Jiawei Wu, Qi Yang, Wei Luo, Jian Sun, Qiuxiang Xu, Fei Chen, Jianwei Zhao, Kaixin Yi, Xiaolin Wang, Dongbo Wang, Xiaoming Li and Guangming Zeng

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2018, 336, 28
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2017.11.038

Biofouling and scaling control of reverse osmosis membrane using one-step cleaning-potential of acidified nitrite solution as an agent

Emmanuelle Filloux, Jingshi Wang, Marc Pidou, Wolfgang Gernjak and Zhiguo Yuan

Journal of Membrane Science, 2015, 495, 276
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2015.08.034

Role of extracellular polymeric substances in sludge dewatering under modified corn-core powder and sludge-based biochar pretreatments

Zhiying Guo, Liping Ma, Quxiu Dai, Ran Ao, Hongpan Liu, Yi Wei and Liusen Mu

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2020, 202, 110882
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.110882

Sorption fractionation of bacterial extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) on mineral surfaces and associated effects on phenanthrene sorption to EPS-mineral complexes

Yiqun Chen, Minli Wang, Xinwei Zhou, Heyun Fu, Xiaolei Qu and Dongqiang Zhu

Chemosphere, 2021, 263, 128264
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128264

Effect of free nitrous acid pre-treatment on primary sludge biodegradability and its implications

Tingting Zhang, Qilin Wang, Liu Ye and Zhiguo Yuan

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2016, 290, 31
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2016.01.028

A review on energy and cost effective phase separated pretreatment of biosolids

J Rajesh Banu, T Poornima Devi, R Yukesh Kannah, S Kavitha, Sang-Hyoun Kim, Raul Muñoz and Gopalakrishnan Kumar

Water Research, 2021, 198, 117169
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117169

Perfluorooctanoic acid triggers oxidative stress in anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge

Yimeng Jiao, Mei Zou, Xiao Yang, Yiu Fai Tsang and Hongbo Chen

Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022, 424, 127418
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127418

Synchronization of dehydration and phosphorous immobilization for river sediment by calcified polyferric sulfate pretreatment

Nan Yang, Hang Xiao, Kewu Pi, Jing Fang, Shuze Liu, Yuhan Chen, Yafei Shi, Huiqin Zhang, Andrea R. Gerson and Defu Liu

Chemosphere, 2021, 269, 129403
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.129403

Novel free nitrous acid and ultrasonication pretreatment enhanced sludge biodegradability

Frances Okoye, Farokh laqa Kakar and Elsayed Elbeshbishy

Environmental Technology, 2024, 45, 1829
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2022.2155252

Secondary acidogenic fermentation of waste activated sludge via voltage supplementation: Insights from sludge structure and enzymes activity

Lei Li, Chen Cai, Yongdong Chen, Haoyu Liu, Rui Liu, Donghai Yang, Bin Dong and Xiaohu Dai

Science of The Total Environment, 2021, 797, 149161
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149161

Achieving Stable Nitritation for Mainstream Deammonification by Combining Free Nitrous Acid-Based Sludge Treatment and Oxygen Limitation

Dongbo Wang, Qilin Wang, Andrew Laloo, Yifeng Xu, Philip L. Bond and Zhiguo Yuan

Sci Rep, 2016, 6
DOI: 10.1038/srep25547

Rapid Waste Activated Sludge Reduction and Stabilization via a Biofilm-Based Acidic Aerobic Digestion Process

Xi Lu, Zhiyao Wang, Zheng Kong, Haoran Duan, Zhiqiang Zuo, Zhetai Hu, Min Zheng, Damien J. Batstone and Shihu Hu

Environ. Sci. Technol., 2026, 60, 3352
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5c08428

Oxidative treatment of waste activated sludge by different activated persulfate systems for enhancing sludge dewaterability

Ki-Myeong Lee, Min Sik Kim and Changha Lee

Sustainable Environment Research, 2016, 26, 177
DOI: 10.1016/j.serj.2015.10.005

Effects of free nitrous acid and nitrite on two-phase anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge: A preliminary study

Yiqing Lu, Ying Xu, Bin Dong and Xiaohu Dai

Science of The Total Environment, 2019, 654, 1064
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.033

Understanding the mechanism of denitrifying phosphorus removal from the perspective of intracellular carbon source and extracellular polymeric substances characteristics

Rongrong Hou, Peng Yang, Shengtao Qian, Rongfang Yuan, Zhongbing Chen, Beihai Zhou and Huilun Chen

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022, 367, 133115
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.133115

Molecular and ionic-scale chemical mechanisms behind the role of nitrocyl group in the electrochemical removal of heavy metals from sludge

S. W. Hasan, I. Ahmed, A. A. Housani and A. Giwa

Sci Rep, 2016, 6
DOI: 10.1038/srep31828

Enhanced dewaterability of anaerobically digested sludge by in-situ free nitrous acid treatment

Yifu Li, Dongbo Wang, Guojing Yang, Xingzhong Yuan, Qiuxiang Xu, Qi Yang, Yiwen Liu, Qilin Wang, Bing-Jie Ni, Wangwang Tang and Longbo Jiang

Water Research, 2020, 169, 115264
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.115264

Self-Sustained Nitrite Accumulation at Low pH Greatly Enhances Volatile Solids Destruction and Nitrogen Removal in Aerobic Sludge Digestion

Haoran Duan, Liu Ye, Xuanyu Lu, Damien J. Batstone and Zhiguo Yuan

Environ. Sci. Technol., 2019, 53, 1225
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b04498

Acidic aerobic digestion of anaerobically-digested sludge enabled by a novel ammonia-oxidizing bacterium

Zhiyao Wang, Min Zheng, Haoran Duan, Gaofeng Ni, Wenbo Yu, Yanchen Liu, Zhiguo Yuan and Shihu Hu

Water Research, 2021, 194, 116962
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.116962

Improving wastewater management using free nitrous acid (FNA)

Haoran Duan, Shuhong Gao, Xuan Li, Nur Hafizah Ab Hamid, Guangming Jiang, Min Zheng, Xue Bai, Philip L. Bond, Xuanyu Lu, Mariella M. Chislett, Shihu Hu, Liu Ye and Zhiguo Yuan

Water Research, 2020, 171, 115382
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.115382

Nitrite and free nitrous acid sludge pre-treatments to enhance methane production in continuous anaerobic digestion: Comparing process performance and associated costs

Maycoll Romero-Güiza, Soraya Zahedi, Victor Monsalvo, Pilar Icaran and Maite Pijuan

Waste Management, 2019, 95, 526
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2019.06.043

Individual and combined effect of salinity and nitrite on freshwater Anammox bacteria (FAB)

Limin Lin, Steven Pratt, Maxime Rattier and Liu Ye

Water Research, 2020, 169, 114931
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.114931

Structural extracellular polymeric substances determine the difference in digestibility between waste activated sludge and aerobic granules

Hongxiao Guo, Simon Felz, Yuemei Lin, Jules B. van Lier and Merle de Kreuk

Water Research, 2020, 181, 115924
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.115924

Free nitrous acid pretreatment of sludge to achieve nitritation: The effect of sludge concentration

Zenghua Wang, Bo Wang, Xiaofei Gong, Xin Qiao and Yongzhen Peng

Bioresource Technology, 2019, 285, 121358
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.121358

Extracellular polymeric substance decomposition linked to hydrogen recovery from waste activated sludge: Role of peracetic acid and free nitrous acid co-pretreatment in a prefermentation-bioelectrolysis cascading system

Zhihong Liu, Aijuan Zhou, Hongyan Liu, Sufang Wang, Wenzong Liu, Aijie Wang and Xiuping Yue

Water Research, 2020, 176, 115724
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.115724

Nitrite acts as the key “switch” governing the free nitrous acid pretreatment in anaerobic digestion: A comprehensive mechanism of abiotic, bioinformatics and bioenergetics effects

Zhibang Han, Ru Fang, Xueting Wang, Guangchen Huang, Dong Wu, Jun Tai, Bing Xie, Yinglong Su, Jingyang Luo, Gang Zhao and Ming Jiang

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024, 480, 148051
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2023.148051

Impacts of free nitrous acid on stabilizing food waste and sewage sludge for anaerobic digestion

Camila A. Proano, Ruizhe Liu, Xueming Xu, Seth Meisler, Amro Hassanein, Stephanie Lansing, Kuo Tian and Guangbin Li

Bioresource Technology, 2024, 402, 130819
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2024.130819

A novel combined use of FeCl3 and NaNO2 markedly improves the efficiency of aerobic waste activated sludge treatment

Renfu Zhang, Xi Lu, Guanbin Li, Xiaotong Cen, Dong Lin and Zhetai Hu

Water Research, 2026, 292, 125323
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2026.125323

Nitrite pre-treatment of dewatered sludge for microbial fuel cell application

Abdul Rasyid Ruslan and Vel Murugan Vadivelu

Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2019, 77, 148
DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2018.06.023

Free nitrous acid-based nitrifying sludge treatment in a two-sludge system enhances nutrient removal from low-carbon wastewater

Dongbo Wang, Qizi Fu, Qiuxiang Xu, Yiwen Liu, Huu Hao Ngo, Qi Yang, Guangming Zeng, Xiaoming Li and Bing-Jie Ni

Bioresource Technology, 2017, 244, 920
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.08.045

Role of extracellular polymeric substances in improvement of sludge dewaterability through peroxidation

Xu Zhou, Guangming Jiang, Tingting Zhang, Qilin Wang, Guo-jun Xie and Zhiguo Yuan

Bioresource Technology, 2015, 192, 817
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.05.087

Metabolomic reveals the responses of sludge properties and microbial communities to high nitrite stress in denitrifying phosphorus removal systems

Rongrong Hou, Jiandong Liu, Peng Yang, Haijun Liu, Rongfang Yuan, Ying Ji, Hongfei Zhao, Zhongbing Chen, Beihai Zhou and Huilun Chen

Environmental Research, 2024, 252, 118924
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118924