Accepted Manuscript Biological phosphorus removal from abattoir wastewater at very short sludge ages mediated by novel PAO clade Comamonadaceae Huoqing Ge , Damien J. Batstone , Jürg Keller PII: S0043-1354(14)00796-9 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.11.026 Reference: WR 11009 To appear in: Water Research Received Date: 13 August 2014 Revised Date: 6 November 2014 Accepted Date: 16 November 2014 Please cite this article as: Ge, H., Batstone, D.J., Keller, J., Biological phosphorus removal from abattoir wastewater at very short sludge ages mediated by novel PAO clade Comamonadaceae, Water Research (2014), doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.11.026. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 1 Biological phosphorus removal from abattoir wastewater at 2 very short sludge ages mediated by novel PAO clade 3 Comamonadaceae 4 Huoqing Ge, Damien J. Batstone, Jürg Keller* 5 AWMC, Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, 6 4072, Queensland, Australia 7 8 *Corresponding author: 9 Jürg Keller 10 11 Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC), 12 The University of Queensland, St Lucia, MANUSCRIPT 13 QLD 4072, Australia 14 Phone: +61 7 3365 4727 15 Fax: +61 7 3365 4726 16 Email:
[email protected] 17 18 19 20 21 ACCEPTED 22 23 24 1 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 25 Abstract: 26 Recent increases in global phosphorus costs, together with the need to remove phosphorus 27 from wastewater to comply with water discharge regulations, make phosphorus recovery 28 from wastewater economically and environmentally attractive.