Anammox Bacteria: Where Science and Operations Meet

Wastewater treatment using anammox bacteria is an example of how lab experimentation and real-world trial and error can work together to promote progress.
Anammox Bacteria: Where Science and Operations Meet
Civil and environmental engineering professors Daniel Noguera and Trina McMahon study how anammox bacteria may improve conventional wastewater treatment methods.

One fascinating thing about wastewater treatment is that while plants are filled with big tanks, motors, pumps, mixers, blowers and valves, the real work gets done at the microscopic level — by the bacteria that consume the waste.

In recent years, a new family of...

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