RESUMEN
This study analyzes the microbial community and diversity composition of activated sludge in anoxic/oxic (A/O) treatment systems at different operation stages using Illumina MiSeq high-throughput sequencing to investigate the microbial community structure and diversity in activated sludge for starch wastewater treatment. The experimental results showed that the microbial community structure of activated sludge for starch production wastewater treatment in A/O systems was quite stable under the same wastewater condition, and that the dominant bacteria of the activated sludge were Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Chloroflexi, Firmicutes, and Actinobacteria. The most important dominant bacterial group was Proteobacteria (45.66%-66.30%), of which γ-subclass bacteria were the main member and occupied 36.38%-66.65%. The proportion of Sphingobacteria, the main member of the Bacteroidetes, decreased when the sludge settling performance was better, but the proportion of Anaerolineae, the main member of Chloroflexi, increased significantly when the sludge sedimentation performance was better. These changes may have been closely related to the behavior of sludge settleability. There were a large number of functional bacteria in the activated sludge, which played an important role in the degradation of pollutants and in nitrogen and/or phosphorus removal.
