Immobilized nitrifying bacteria and immobilization method thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of wastewater treatment, and particularly relates to immobilized nitrifying bacteria and an immobilization method thereof.
Background
Nitrifying bacteria belong to autotrophic microorganisms, grow and propagate slowly, strain is easy to run off in the application process, poor tolerance to adverse environment, easy to inhibit activity, small in concentration of thalli in activated sludge, and difficult to obtain a good denitrification effect in a short time. The enhancement of biological denitrification processes by immobilized microorganism technology is one of the hot spots of research in the field of biological denitrification in recent years.
The microorganism immobilization technology is to fix pure-breed separated or functionally-determined microorganisms in a certain space by adopting a proper carrier, so that the microorganisms are not diluted or washed away by flowing water, and the biocatalysis reaction can be effectively and continuously carried out. The current immobilization methods include adsorption, carrier binding, embedding, crosslinking, and the like, each of which has advantages and disadvantages. The embedding method has the defects of low mechanical strength and the like, and the adsorption method has limited large-scale application due to small surface area and easy detachment of biological films. At present, researchers mostly carry out a great deal of work on the aspects of material selection, proportioning, carrier modification, immobilization method and the like.
CN201510557050.4 discloses an immobilization method of ammonia nitrogen degrading bacteria for treating ammonia nitrogen wastewater, firstly adding sodium alginate, polyvinyl alcohol and clinoptilolite into water, stirring at 70-100 ℃ to obtain mixed slurry; cooling the mixed slurry to 30-45 ℃, adding ammonia nitrogen degrading bacteria into the mixed slurry, and stirring the mixed slurry to prepare mixed slurry containing the ammonia nitrogen degrading bacteria; dropwise adding the mixed slurry containing ammonia nitrogen degrading bacteria into CaCl with the mass fraction of 1% -10% 2 And (3) standing the solution for 2 to 24 hours at the temperature of between 0 and 10 ℃ and then flushing the solution with normal saline or water. According to the method provided by the invention, ammonia nitrogen degrading bacteria cannot be lost along with the water body, the system stability and the ammonia nitrogen removal efficiency are improved, and the obtained immobilized ammonia nitrogen degrading bacteria particles are used for treating the wastewater with the ammonia nitrogen concentration of 256.9mg/L to more than 15.11mg/L within 60 hours. According to the method, ammonia nitrogen degrading bacteria are embedded in immobilized particles, and although the bacteria cannot be lost, the ammonia nitrogen removal rate can be influenced, and the treatment time is up to 60 hours.
CN201610595544.6 discloses a method for treating ammonia nitrogen wastewater by using porous cellulose aerogel immobilized microorganism bacteria, which mainly comprises the steps of preparing porous cellulose aerogel, adsorbing and fixing nitrifying bacteria and denitrifying bacteria on the porous cellulose aerogel by adopting a carrier combination method, and fixing microorganisms on the porous cellulose aerogel to treat ammonia nitrogen wastewater, thereby being beneficial to synchronous nitrification and denitrification reaction. The immobilized microorganism obtained by the method is added into 50-100L of 100-500mg/L ammonia nitrogen wastewater according to 20-30g/L, the hydraulic retention time is 30-40h, and the ammonia nitrogen removal rate after treatment is 68-89%. However, the method utilizes cellulose aerogel to adsorb thalli, belongs to surface adsorption, and can also generate falling-off phenomenon in long-term treatment due to weak bonding force between thalli and an adsorption material.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects existing in the prior art, the invention provides an immobilized nitrifying bacteria and an immobilization method thereof. The immobilization method is realized by the prepared immobilization material, the immobilization material has good adsorptivity to nitrifying bacteria, the binding force between the material and thalli can be enhanced, and nitrifying bacteria can be prevented from falling off in the long-term use process.
The invention provides a nitrifying bacteria immobilization method, which comprises the following steps:
(1) Preparing an immobilization carrier: adopting humic acid modified aerogel, loading metal ions, and uniformly mixing with active carbon to prepare an immobilized carrier;
(2) Adsorption of nitrifying bacteria: mixing the immobilized carrier with nitrifying bacteria suspension, and centrifuging after adsorption to obtain solid substances for adsorbing nitrifying bacteria;
(3) Embedding and crosslinking after adsorption: preparing polyvinyl alcohol and sodium alginate gel, adding the gel into the solid in the step (2), uniformly mixing, and dripping CaCl 2 And (3) in saturated boric acid solution, after titration, crosslinking and fixing for a certain time, and washing to obtain the immobilized nitrifying bacteria.
The aerogel in the step (1) is at least one of carbon aerogel, silicon aerogel, cellulose aerogel and the like, and preferably the carbon aerogel. Is usually obtained by self-making or commercial purchase, and the specific surface area of the aerogel is 600-1100 m 2 And/g, wherein the porosity is 80% -98%.
The process of modifying aerogel by humic acid in the step (1) comprises the following steps: (a) Placing the aerogel in acetic acid solution for water bath oscillation, taking out and washing to be neutral; (b) Dissolving humic acid in Fe (OH) 3 SolutionMixing the mixture with the aerogel obtained in the step (a), carrying out water bath reaction at 50-70 ℃, and washing to be neutral after the reaction to obtain the humic acid modified aerogel.
The concentration of the acetic acid solution in the step (a) is 1.0-2.0 mol/L. Immersing the aerogel in acetic acid solution for water bath reaction, wherein the reaction temperature is 30-50 ℃ and the reaction time is 1.0-2.0 h. The aerogel is removed and washed to a neutral pH, typically 6.5 to 7.5.
Fe (OH) as described in step (b) 3 The concentration of the solution is 0.5 to 0.8mol/L, fe (OH) 3 The mass ratio of the solution to the humic acid is 1:1-3:1. Immersing the aerogel of step (a) in humic acid and Fe (OH) 3 In the mixed system of the solution, the water bath reaction is carried out for 3 to 5 hours at the temperature of 50 to 70 ℃, and the pH value is generally 6.5 to 7.5 after the reaction and washing.
In the step (1) of the invention, metal ions are loaded on the humic acid modified aerogel, and a loading method conventional in the field can be adopted. The metal ion is Cu 2+ 、Fe 2+ 、Mg 2+ At least one of the above, preferably contains Fe 2+ . Wherein, the metal ion load is 1% -5% of metal oxide based on the total mass.
The metal ions loaded on the humic acid modified aerogel in the step (1) can be specifically carried out by the following method: adding humic acid modified aerogel into metal ion solution for soaking, stirring for a certain time, taking out for heat treatment, and drying to obtain metal-loaded modified aerogel. The metal ion solution is generally a soluble salt solution of metal ions, and the concentration of the metal ion solution is 4-10mol/L. The impregnation can be equal volume impregnation or excessive impregnation, one or more times of impregnation can be adopted, and the impregnation is carried out for 6-10 hours under the stirring condition of 60-70 ℃. The heat treatment is carried out by treating at 90-120deg.C for 1-5 hr, and then treating at 150-300deg.C for 1-5 hr. The drying is to dry for 1-2 hours at the constant temperature of 100-120 ℃ to obtain the modified aerogel loaded with metal. Further, betaine is added into the metal ion solution, and the mass ratio of the added amount of betaine to the metal ion is 1:1-1:5.
The mass ratio of the activated carbon to the metal-loaded modified aerogel in the step (1) is 1:1-1:10. The mesh number of the activated carbon is 100-500 mesh.
The nitrifying bacteria suspension is obtained by settling nitrifying bacteria culture solution obtained by culture in the step (2), removing supernatant until the settling ratio is 80% -90%, and mixing the nitrifying bacteria suspension with the immobilized carrier in the step (1) according to the liquid-solid ratio of 10-20mL:1 g. Mixing, adsorbing at 28-30deg.C and 100-200r/min for 60-180min, and centrifuging at 400-600r/min for 2-10min.
Further, the polyethyleneimine is added in the step (2), and the addition amount is 1% -5% of the volume of the nitrifying bacteria suspension.
Step (3) of the present invention is entrapping crosslinking by methods well known in the art. Specifically, the gel is prepared by dissolving polyvinyl alcohol and sodium alginate in distilled water at the water bath temperature of 90-95 ℃, wherein the content of the polyvinyl alcohol is 70-80g/L, and the content of the sodium alginate is 20-30g/L; and then adding the gel into the solid in the step (2) according to the volume ratio of 2-3:1, and stirring and uniformly mixing. Said CaCl 2 The saturated boric acid solution with the mass fraction of 3-5% is continuously stirred, crosslinked and fixed for 24-48h at the temperature of 4-5 ℃ after titration is finished, and finally the saturated boric acid solution is washed three times by using physiological saline with the mass fraction of 0.9%, so that the immobilization of nitrifying bacteria is completed, and the nitrified bacteria is stored at the temperature of 0-5 ℃.
The immobilized nitrifying bacteria of the present invention are prepared by the above-described method of the present invention. The immobilized nitrifying bacteria are prepared by loading metal ions on humic acid modified aerogel, mixing the metal ions with activated carbon to prepare an immobilized carrier, adsorbing nitrifying bacteria on the immobilized carrier, and finally embedding and crosslinking.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) According to the invention, humic acid modified aerogel is adopted, metal ions are loaded, then the humic acid modified aerogel is mixed with activated carbon to serve as an immobilized carrier, then the immobilized carrier is used for adsorbing nitrifying bacteria, and finally the immobilized nitrifying bacteria are prepared through embedding and crosslinking, so that the impact of high-concentration ammonia nitrogen on nitrifying bacteria can be relieved, the efficient and stable treatment effect is ensured, and nitrifying bacteria and the carrier are firmly combined, so that the bacterial body is prevented from falling off.
(2) The immobilized carrier material is prepared by adopting humic acid modified aerogel and metal ion load, and through synergistic effect, all substances are tightly combined, so that microorganism adhesion and adsorption are finally facilitated, and the immobilized carrier material has strong binding force.
(3) The betaine is added into the metal ion impregnation solution, so that the bonding strength of the metal ions and the aerogel is improved, and meanwhile, the bonding force of the metal ions and microorganisms is enhanced, thereby being beneficial to further avoiding the falling of the microorganisms in the long-term treatment process.
(4) The polyethyleneimine is added in the process of adsorbing microorganisms by the carrier, so that the affinity of the microorganisms to the carrier is improved, the number of the microorganisms immobilized by the carrier in unit volume is large, the adsorption time is shortened, and the immobilization efficiency is improved.
(5) The immobilization method of nitrifying bacteria has little damage to microorganisms, and the obtained microorganism particles have good mass transfer performance, are not easy to damage and have long service life.
Detailed Description
The process and effects of the present invention are described in further detail by the following examples. The embodiments and specific operation procedures are given on the premise of the technical scheme of the invention, but the protection scope of the invention is not limited to the following embodiments.
The experimental methods in the following examples, unless otherwise specified, are all conventional in the art. The experimental materials used in the examples described below, unless otherwise specified, were purchased from conventional biochemical reagent stores.
In the embodiment of the invention, the ammonia nitrogen concentration is measured by GB7478-87 determination of water quality ammonium-distillation and titration method; the concentration of the suspension was measured by the method of measuring the suspension in water-weight of GB 11901-89.
Example 1
(1) Preparing an immobilization carrier:
the humic acid modified carbon aerogel is adopted: (a) Will have a specific surface area of 800m 2 Immersing/g carbon aerogel with the porosity of 80% in 1.5mol/L acetic acid solution for water bath reaction at the temperature of 40 ℃, oscillating for 1.5h, taking out, and washing with deionized waterTo pH7.0; (b) Preparation of 0.6mol/L Fe (OH) 3 Solutions according to Fe (OH) 3 The mass ratio of the solution to the humic acid is 2:1, and the humic acid is dissolved in Fe (OH) 3 And (3) mixing the solution with the carbon aerogel treated in the step (a), reacting for 4 hours in a water bath at 60 ℃, taking out, and washing with deionized water to pH7.0 to obtain the humic acid modified aerogel.
Loading metal ions: preparing a ferrous sulfate solution with the concentration of 4mol/L, adding the humic acid modified aerogel into the solution, and soaking for 8 hours under the stirring condition of 65 ℃. The sample was taken out and treated at 100℃for 3 hours and then at 200℃for 3 hours. And drying at 110 ℃ for 1.5h after heat treatment to obtain the metal-loaded modified aerogel.
Mixing with activated carbon: mixing 100-200 meshes of activated carbon with metal-loaded modified aerogel according to the mass ratio of 1:5 to prepare the immobilized carrier.
(2) Adsorption of nitrifying bacteria:
settling freshly cultured nitrifying bacteria culture solution, removing supernatant until the settling ratio is 90%, namely nitrifying bacteria suspension, uniformly mixing the nitrifying bacteria suspension with an immobilization carrier according to a liquid-solid ratio of 10mL:1g, adsorbing for 60min at 28 ℃ under the condition of 100r/min, and centrifuging for 3min under the condition of 400r/min to obtain a solid.
(3) Embedding and crosslinking after adsorption: preparing gel by using polyvinyl alcohol and sodium alginate dissolved in distilled water at the water bath temperature of 90 ℃, wherein the content of the polyvinyl alcohol is 75g/L, and the content of the sodium alginate is 25g/L; and then adding the gel into the solid in the step (2) according to the volume ratio of 2:1, and stirring and uniformly mixing. Said CaCl 2 The saturated boric acid solution with the mass fraction of 4% is continuously stirred, crosslinked and fixed for 24 hours at the temperature of 4 ℃ after titration is finished, and finally the saturated boric acid solution is washed three times by using physiological saline with the mass fraction of 0.9%, so that the immobilization of nitrifying bacteria is completed, and the nitrified bacteria is stored at the temperature of 4 ℃.
Example 2
(1) Preparing an immobilization carrier:
the humic acid modified carbon aerogel is adopted: (a) Will have a specific surface area of 800m 2 Immersing/g carbon aerogel with porosity of 80% in 1.0mol/L acetic acid solution for water bath reaction at 30deg.C, oscillating for 1 hr to obtainWashing the product with deionized water to pH6.5; (b) Preparation of 0.5mol/LFe (OH) 3 Solutions according to Fe (OH) 3 The mass ratio of the solution to the humic acid is 1:1, and the humic acid is dissolved in Fe (OH) 3 And (3) mixing the solution with the carbon aerogel treated in the step (a), oscillating for 3 hours in a water bath at 50 ℃, and then washing with deionized water to pH6.5 to obtain the humic acid modified aerogel.
Loading metal ions: preparing a ferrous sulfate solution with the concentration of 4mol/L, adding the humic acid modified aerogel into the solution, and soaking for 10 hours under the stirring condition at 60 ℃. The sample was taken out and treated at 90℃for 5 hours and then at 150℃for 5 hours. And then drying for 2 hours at the constant temperature of 100 ℃ to obtain the metal-loaded modified aerogel.
Mixing with activated carbon: mixing 200-300 mesh activated carbon and metal-loaded modified aerogel according to a mass ratio of 1:8 to prepare an immobilization carrier.
(2) Adsorption of nitrifying bacteria:
settling freshly cultured nitrifying bacteria culture solution, removing supernatant until the settling ratio is 90%, namely nitrifying bacteria suspension, uniformly mixing the nitrifying bacteria suspension with an immobilization carrier according to the liquid-solid ratio of 20mL:1g, adsorbing for 120min at 29 ℃ under the condition of 150r/min, and centrifuging for 5min under the condition of 500r/min to obtain a solid.
(3) Embedding and crosslinking after adsorption: preparing gel by using polyvinyl alcohol and sodium alginate dissolved in distilled water at the water bath temperature of 90 ℃, wherein the content of the polyvinyl alcohol is 70g/L, and the content of the sodium alginate is 20g/L; and then adding the gel into the solid in the step (2) according to the volume ratio of 3:1, and stirring and uniformly mixing. Said CaCl 2 The saturated boric acid solution with the mass fraction of 3 percent is continuously stirred, crosslinked and fixed for 36 hours at the temperature of 4 ℃ after titration is finished, and finally the saturated boric acid solution is washed three times by normal saline with the mass fraction of 0.9 percent, so that the immobilization of nitrifying bacteria is finished, and the nitrified bacteria is stored at the temperature of 4 ℃.
Example 3
(1) Preparing an immobilization carrier:
the humic acid modified carbon aerogel is adopted: (a) Will have a specific surface area of 1000m 2 Immersing/g carbon aerogel with porosity of 98% in 2.0mol/L acetic acid solution for water bath reaction at the temperature ofShaking for 2 hours at 50 ℃, taking out, and washing with deionized water to pH7.5; (b) Preparation of 0.8mol/LFe (OH) 3 Solutions according to Fe (OH) 3 The mass ratio of the solution to the humic acid is 3:1, and the humic acid is dissolved in Fe (OH) 3 And (3) mixing the solution with the carbon aerogel treated in the step (a), oscillating for 5 hours in a water bath at 70 ℃, and then washing with deionized water to pH7.5 to obtain the humic acid modified aerogel.
Loading metal ions: preparing a ferrous sulfate solution with the concentration of 4mol/L, adding the humic acid modified aerogel into the solution, and soaking for 6 hours under the stirring condition of 70 ℃. The sample was taken out and treated at 120℃for 1 hour and 300℃for 1 hour. And then drying for 1h at the constant temperature of 120 ℃ to obtain the metal-loaded modified aerogel.
Mixing with activated carbon: mixing 400-500 mesh activated carbon and metal-loaded modified aerogel according to a mass ratio of 1:10 to prepare the immobilized carrier.
(2) Adsorption of nitrifying bacteria:
settling the freshly cultured nitrifying bacteria culture solution, removing supernatant until the settling ratio is 90%, namely nitrifying bacteria suspension, uniformly mixing the nitrifying bacteria suspension with an immobilization carrier according to the liquid-solid ratio of 15mL to 1g, and centrifuging for 10min under the conditions of adsorption at 30 ℃ and 200r/min for 180min and 600r/min to obtain a solid.
(3) Embedding and crosslinking after adsorption: preparing gel by using polyvinyl alcohol and sodium alginate dissolved in distilled water at the water bath temperature of 90 ℃, wherein the content of the polyvinyl alcohol is 80g/L, and the content of the sodium alginate is 30g/L; and then adding the gel into the solid in the step (2) according to the volume ratio of 3:1, and stirring and uniformly mixing. Said CaCl 2 The saturated boric acid solution with the mass fraction of 5% is continuously stirred, crosslinked and fixed for 48 hours at the temperature of 4 ℃ after titration is finished, and finally the saturated boric acid solution is washed three times by using physiological saline with the mass fraction of 0.9%, so that the immobilization of nitrifying bacteria is completed, and the nitrified bacteria is stored at the temperature of 4 ℃.
Example 4
The difference from example 1 is that: silicon aerogel is adopted to replace carbon aerogel, and the specific surface area of the silicon aerogel is 1000m 2 And/g, porosity 85%. Finally, the immobilized nitrifying bacteria are prepared and stored at 4 ℃.
Example 5
The difference from example 1 is that: the cellulose aerogel is adopted to replace the carbon aerogel, and the specific surface area of the cellulose aerogel is 900m 2 And/g, the porosity is 95%. Finally, the immobilized nitrifying bacteria are prepared and stored at 4 ℃.
Example 6
The difference from example 1 is that: the metal ion adopts Cu 2+ A 4mol/L copper chloride solution was prepared in place of the ferric sulfate solution. Finally, the immobilized nitrifying bacteria are prepared and stored at 4 ℃.
Example 7
The difference from example 1 is that: the metal ion adopts Mg 2+ A magnesium sulfate solution of 4mol/L was prepared instead of the ferric sulfate solution. Finally, the immobilized nitrifying bacteria are prepared and stored at 4 ℃.
Example 8
The difference from example 1 is that: betaine is added into the metal salt solution, and the mass ratio of the added amount of betaine to metal ions is 1:3. Finally, the immobilized nitrifying bacteria are prepared and stored at 4 ℃.
Example 9
The difference from example 1 is that: and (2) adding polyethylenimine into the nitrifying bacteria suspension, wherein the adding amount is 5% of the volume of the nitrifying bacteria suspension. Finally, the immobilized nitrifying bacteria are prepared and stored at 4 ℃.
Example 10
The difference from example 8 is that: and (2) adding polyethylenimine into the nitrifying bacteria suspension, wherein the adding amount is 3% of the volume of the nitrifying bacteria suspension. Finally, the immobilized nitrifying bacteria are prepared and stored at 4 ℃.
Comparative example 1
The difference from example 1 is that: the aerogel modification step (b) does not use humic acid and only loads metal ions. Finally, the immobilized nitrifying bacteria are prepared and stored at 4 ℃.
Comparative example 2
The difference from example 1 is that: after the aerogel is modified by humic acid, the humic acid is dissolved in water, and no metal ion is loaded, namely Fe (OH) is not adopted 3 A solution. Finally, the immobilized nitrifying bacteria are prepared,preserving at 4 ℃.
Comparative example 3
The difference from example 1 is that: step (a) is omitted when the aerogel humic acid is modified, and only step (b) is adopted. Finally, the immobilized nitrifying bacteria are prepared and stored at 4 ℃.
Comparative example 4
The difference from example 1 is that: no heat treatment is used in the process of loading the metal ions. Finally, the immobilized nitrifying bacteria are prepared and stored at 4 ℃.
Test case
The immobilized nitrifying bacteria prepared in examples 1-10 and comparative examples 1-4 were treated with sewage, and mixed with sewage to be treated at a solid-to-liquid ratio of 1:5, and the concentration of ammonia nitrogen in the sewage was 300mg/L. The treatment is carried out for 48 hours, and the ammonia nitrogen removal condition and the suspended matter condition of the effluent are examined, and the effect is shown in table 1.
TABLE 1
As is clear from Table 1, the immobilized nitrifying bacteria prepared by the method of the invention has better treatment effect, and the bacteria are firmly combined, and after long-term treatment, the effluent suspended matters are less.