Effect of ammonium concentration on microbial population and performance of a biofilter treating air polluted with methane

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1114-1123

  Veillette, Marc ^a   Viens, Pascal ^a   Ramirez, Antonio Avalos ^a   Brzezinski, Ryszard ^a   Heitz, Michèle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ammonium (NH4+); Biofiltration; Denitrification; Inhibition; Methane (CH4); Nitrification

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM (NH4+); AMMONIUM CONCENTRATIONS; BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DENITRIFIERS; DENITRIFYING BACTERIA; DNA SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; DRY BIOMASS; METHANE CONCENTRATIONS; METHANOTROPHS; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; NEGATIVE VALUES; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; NITRATE PRODUCTION; NITRIFYING ACTIVITY; PRODUCTION RATES; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILTERS; BIOFILTRATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DENITRIFICATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; METHANATION; METHANE; NITRIFICATION; PACKED BEDS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79959938989     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

References (75)

1. Government of Canada, Climate change plan for Canada. , 2002 (11.11.2009). http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/.
2. Environment Canada, Canada's greenhouse gas emissions: understanding the trends, 1990-2006. , 2008 (17.11.2009). http://www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/ghg/inventory_report/2008_trends/trends_fra.cfm%23toc_1.
3. Gouvernement du Québec, Inventaire québécois des émissions de gaz à effet de serre en 2006 et leur évolution depuis 1990, Développement durable, Environnement et Parcs Québec, 15 p. , 2008. http://www.mddep.gouv.qc.ca/changements/ges/2006/index.htm1.
4. Statistics Canada, Statistiques financières des exploitations agricoles: recettes monétaires agricoles. , 2010 (April 2010). http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l02/cst01/agri03a-fra.htm.
5. Fédération des producteurs de porcs du Québec, Portrait de la production. , 2010 (12.04.2010). http://www.leporcduquebec.qc.ca/fr/fppq/prod-2.html.
6. Canadian Pork Council, Statistic: description of Canadian hog farms. , 2009 (02.04.2010). http://www.cpc-ccp.com/statistics-farms-f.php.
7. Laguë C. Management practice to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from swine production systems. Adv. Pork Prod. 2003, 14:287-300.
8. Zahn J.A., Hatfield J.L., Laird D.A., Hart T.T., Do Y.S., DiSpirito A.A. Functional classification of swine manure management systems based on effluent and gas emission characteristics. J. Environ. Qual. 2001, 30:635-647.
9. Laguë C., Gaudet E., Agnew J., Fonstad T.A. Greenhouse gas emissions from liquid swine manure storage facilities in Saskatchewan. Trans. ASAE 2005, 48:2289-2296.
10. Zeikus J.C. The biology of methanogenic bacteria. Bacteriol. Rev. 1977, 41:514-541.
11. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Climate change: questions and answers. , 2007 (05.09.2009). http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/.
12. Forster P. Changes in atmospheric constituents and in radiative forcing. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, New York, NY, USA.
13. Sommer S.G., Petersen S.O., Sørensen P., Poulsen H.D., Møller H.B. Methane and carbon dioxide emissions and nitrogen turnover during liquid manure storage. Nutr. Cycl. Agroecosyst. 2007, 78:27-36.
14. Kebreab E., Clark K., Wagner-Riddle C., France J. Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from Canadian animal agriculture: a review. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 2006, 86:135.
15. Vanotti M.B., Szogi A.A., Vives C.A. Greenhouse gas emission reduction and environmental quality improvement from implementation of aerobic waste treatment systems in swine farms. Waste Manage. 2008, 28:759-766.
16. Martinez J., Guiziou F., Peu P., Gueutier V. Influence of treatment techniques for pig slurry on methane emissions during subsequent storage. Biosyst. Eng. 2003, 85:347-354.
17. Hansen K.H., Angelidaki I., Ahring B.K. Anaerobic digestion of swine manure: inhibition by ammonia. Water Res. 1998, 32:5-12.
18. Gouvernement du Québec, Règlement sur les exploitations agricoles, Article 31. , 2005 (12.11.2008). http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/.
19. Melse R.W., Van Der Werf A.W. Biofiltration for mitigation of methane emission from animal husbandry. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2005, 39:5460-5468.
20. Perry R.H., Green D.W., Maloney J.O. Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook 1997, McGraw-Hill, New York. seventh ed.
21. Nikiema J., Brzezinski R., Heitz M. Elimination of methane generated from landfills by biofiltration: a review. Rev. Environ. Sci. Biotechnol. 2007, 6:261-284.
22. Hanson R., Hanson T. Methanotrophic bacteria. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 1996, 60:439.
23. Delhoménie M., Heitz M. Biofiltration of air: a review. Crit. Rev. Biotechnol. 2005, 25:53-72.
24. Shuler M.L., Kargi F. Bioprocess Engineering: Basic Concept 2002, Prentice Hall International Series in the Physical and Chemical Engineering Sciences, Upper Saddle River, NJ. second ed.
25. Smith F.L., Sorial G.A., Suidan M.T., Breen A.W., Biswas P., Brenner R.C. Development of two biomass control strategies for extended, stable operation of highly efficient biofilters with high toluene loadings. Environ. Sci. Technol. 1996, 30:1744-1751.
26. Delhoménie M., Bibeau L., Gendron J., Brzezinski R., Heitz M. Toluene removal by biofiltration: influence of the nitrogen concentration on operational parameters. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2001, 40:5405-5414.
27. Nikiema J., Bibeau L., Lavoie J., Brzezinski R., Vigneux J., Heitz M. Biofiltration of methane: an experimental study. Chem. Eng. J. 2005, 113:111-117.
28. Avalos Ramirez A., Bénard S., Giroir-Fendler A., Jones J.P., Heitz M. Treatment of methanol vapours in biofilters packed with inert materials. J. Chem. Technol. Biotechnol. 2008, 83:1288-1297.
29. Bodelier P.L.E., Laanbroek H.J. Nitrogen as a regulatory factor of methane oxidation in soils and sediments. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 2004, 47:265-277.
30. Steudler P.A., Bowden R.D., Melillo J.M., Aber J.D. Influence of nitrogen fertilization on methane uptake in temperate forest soils. Nature 1989, 341:316-341.
31. Bender M., Conrad R. Microbial oxidation of methane, ammonium and carbon monoxide, and turnover of nitrous oxide and nitric oxide in soils. Biogeochemistry 1994, 97-112.
32. King G., Schnell S. Effect of increasing atmospheric methane concentration on ammonium inhibition of soil methane consumption. Nature 1994, 370:282.
33. Whalen S.C. Influence of N and non-N salts on atmospheric methane oxidation by upland boreal forest and tundra soils. Biol. Fertil. Soils 2000, 31:279-287.
34. Dunfield P., Knowles R. Kinetics of inhibition of methane oxidation by nitrate, nitrite, and ammonium in a humisol. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1995, 61:3129.
35. De Visscher A., Van Cleemput O. Induction of enhanced CH4 oxidation in soils: NH4+ inhibition patterns. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2003, 35:907-913.
36. Bodelier P.L.E., Roslev P., Henckel T., Frenzel P. Stimulation by ammonium-based fertilisers of methane oxidation in soil around rice roots. Nature 2000, 403:421-425.
37. Bodelier P.L.E., Hahn A.P., Arth I.R., Frenzel P. Effects of ammonium-based fertilisation on microbial processes involved in methane emission from soils planted with rice. Biogeochemistry 2000, 51:225-257.
38. Bender M., Conrad R. Effect of CH4 concentrations and soil conditions on the induction of CH4 oxidation activity. Soil Biol. Biochem. 1995, 27:1517-1527.
39. De Visscher A., Schippers M., VanCleemput O. Short term response of enhanced methane oxidation in landfill cover soils to environmental factors. Biol. Fertil. Soils 2001, 33:231-237.
40. Cornish A., Nicholls K.M., Scott D., Hunter B.K., Aston W.J., Higgins I.J., Sanders J.K.M. In vivo 13C NMR investigations of methanol oxidation by the obligate methanotroph Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b. J. Gen. Microbiol. 1984, 130:2565-2575.
41. USEPA (U.S.Environmental Protection Agency) Sample preservation. Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes 1983, 15-20. USEPA, Cincinnati, OH, USA. USEPA (Ed.).
42. Muyzer G. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) in microbial ecology[J]. Molecular Microbial Ecology Manual 2004, 743-769. Dordrecht, Kluwer. G.A. Kowalchuk (Ed.).
43. Altschul S.F., Gish W., Miller W., Myers E.W., Lipman D.J. Basic local alignment search tool. J. Mol. Biol. 1990, 215:403-410.
44. Nikolausz M., Sipos R., Revesz S., Szekely A., Marialigeti K. Observation of bias associated with re-amplification of DNA isolated from denaturing gradient gels. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 2005, 244:385-390.
45. Kravchenko I.K. Methane oxidation in boreal peat soils treated with various nitrogen compounds. Plant Soil 2002, 242:157-162.
46. Boeckx P., Van Cleemput O., Villaralvo I. Methane emission from a landfill and the methane oxidising capacity of its covering soil. Soil Biol. Biochem. 1996, 28:1397-1404.
47. Park S.Y., Brown K.W., Thomas J.C. The use of biofilter to reduce atmospheric methane emissions from landfills: part 1. Biofilter design. Water Air Soil Pollut. 2004, 155:63-85.
48. Bédard C., Knowles R. Physiology, biochemistry, and specific inhibitors of CH4, NH4+, and CO oxidation by methanotrophs and nitrifiers. Microbiol. Rev. 1989, 53:68-84.
49. Metcalf and Eddy Inc., Tchobanoglous G., Burton F.L., Stensel H.D. Wastewater Engineering: Treatment, Disposal and Reuse 2003, McGraw-Hill, New York, USA. fourth ed.
50. Keener W.K., Arp D.J. Kinetic studies of ammonia monooxygenase inhibition in Nitrosomonas europaea by hydrocarbons and halogenated hydrocarbons in an optimized whole-Cell Assay. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1993, 59:2501-2510.
51. Sakuma T., Jinsiriwanit S., Hattori T., Deshusses M.A. Removal of ammonia from contaminated air in a biotricklingfilter - denitrifying bioreactor combination system. Water Res. 2008, 42:4507-4513.
52. Thalasso F., Vallecillo A., Garcia-Encina P., Fdz-Polanco F. The use of methane as a sole carbon source for wastewater denitrification. Water Res. 1997, 31:55-60.
53. Modin O., Fukushi K., Yamamoto K. Denitrification with methane as external carbon source. Water Res. 2007, 41:2726-2738.
54. Knowles R. Denitrifiers associated with methanotrophs and their potential impact on the nitrogen cycle. Ecol. Eng. 2005, 24:441-446.
55. Eisentraeger A., Klang P., Vansbotter B., Heymann E., Dott W. Denitrification of groundwater with methane as sole hydrogen donnor. Water Res. 2001, 35:2261-2267.
56. Kuenen G.J., Robertson L.A. Combined nitrification-denitrification process. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 1994, 15:109-117.
57. Verhagen J.M., Laanbroek H.J. Competition for ammonium between nitrifying and heterotrophic bacteria in dual energy-limited chemostats. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1991, 57:3255-3263.
58. Vanparys B., Heylen K., Lebbe L., De Vos P. Pseudomonas peli sp. nov. and Pseudomonas borbori sp. nov., isolated from a nitrifying inoculum. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2006, 56:1875-1881.
59. Girard M., Avalos Ramirez A., Buelna G., Heitz M. Biofiltration of methane at low concentrations representative of the piggery industry - influence of the methane and nitrogen concentrations. Chem. Eng. J. 2011, 168:151-158.
60. Bowman J.P., Sly L.I., Nichols P.D., Hayward A.C. Revised taxonomy of the methanotrophs: description of Methylobacter gen. nov., emendation of methylococcus, validation of Methylosinus and Methylocystis species, and a proposal that the family Methylococcaceae includes only the group I methanotrophs. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1993, 43:735-753.
61. Bodrossy L., Holmes E.M., Holmes A.J., Kovacs K.L., Murrell J.C. Analysis of 16S rRNA and methane monooxygenase gene sequences reveals a novel group of thermotolerant and thermophilic methanotrophs, Methylocaldum gen. nov. Arch. Microbiol. 1997, 168:493-503.
62. Noll M., Frenzel P., Conrad R. Selective stimulation of type I methanotrophs in a rice paddy soil by urea fertilization revealed by RNA-based stable isotope probing. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 2008, 65:125-132.
63. Zheng Y., Zhang L., Zheng Y., Di H., He J. Abundance and community composition of methanotrophs in a Chinese paddy soil under long-term fertilization practices. J. Soils Sediments 2008, 8:406-414.
64. Qiu Q.F., Noll M., Abraham W.R., Lu Y.H., Conrad R. Applying stable isotope probing of phospholipid fatty acids and rRNA in a Chinese rice field to study activity and composition of the methanotrophic bacterial communities in situ. ISME J. 2008, 2:602-614.
65. Mohanty S.R., Bodelier P.L.E., Floris V., Conrad R. Differential effects of nitrogenous fertilizers on methane-consuming microbes in rice field and forest soil. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006, 72:1346-1354.
66. Wu L.Q., Ma K., Lu Y.H. Rice roots select for type I methanotrophs in rice field soil. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 2009, 32:421-428.
67. Greenwood J.A., Jones C.W. Environmental regulation of the methanol oxidase system of Methylophilus methylotrophus. J. Gen. Microbiol. 1986, 132:1247-1256.
68. Madhaiyan M., Poonguzhali S., Kwon S.-W., Sa T.-M. Methylophilus rhizosphaerae sp. nov., a restricted facultative methylotroph isolated from rice rhizosphere soil. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2009, 59:2904-2908.
69. Nercessian O.G., Noyes E., Kaluyzhnaya M.G., Lidstrom M.E., Chistoserdova L. Bacterial populations active in metabolism of C1 compounds in the sediment of Lake Washington, a freshwater lake. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2005, 71:6885-6899.
70. Cébron A., Bodrossy L., Stralis-Pavese N., Singer A.C., Thompson I.P., Prosser J.I., Murrell J.C. Nutrient amendments in soil DNA stable isotope probing experiments reduce the observed methanotroph diversity. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007, 73:798-807.
71. Priemé A., Sitaula J.I.B., Klemedtsson A.K., Bakken L.R. Extraction of methane-oxidising bacteria from soil particles. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 1996, 21:59-68.
72. Murase J., Frenzel P. A methane-driven microbial food web in a wetland rice soil. Environ. Microbiol. 2007, 9:3025-3034.
73. Kolb S. Aerobic methanol-oxidizing bacteria in soil. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 2009, 300:1-10.
74. Nyerges G., Stein L.Y. Ammonia co-metabolism and product inhibition vary considerably among species of methanotrophic bacteria. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 2009, 297:131-136.
75. Aakra A., Hesselsoe M., Bakken L.R. Surface attachment of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in soil. Microbiol. Ecol. 2000, 39:222-235.