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A fresh start to sustainable sewage nitrogen removal

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The nitritation process, namely the biological conversion of ammonia to nitrite, is a pivotal approach in sustainable sewage management but remains challenging to implement in practice. Now a strategy shows remarkable efficiency in swiftly initiating and maintaining sewage nitritation, even under industrially relevant conditions.

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Fig. 1: Nitrogen removal in sewage.

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M.Z. and T.L. are the awardees of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Industry Fellowship (IE230100245) and ARC DECRA Fellowship (DE220101310), respectively.

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  1. Water Research Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Min Zheng

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

    Tao Liu

  3. Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Tao Liu

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