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Journal of Water Resource and Protection, 2011, 3, 12-21 doi:10.4236/jwarp.2011.31002 Published Online January 2011 (/journal/jwarp) Effect of Free Cells and Additional Supporting Material on Performance of Polyethylene Glycol (PEG)-Pellet Reactor to Treat NH4-N Contaminated Groundwater 1* 2 1 Wilawan Khanitchaidecha , Tatsuo Sumino , Futaba Kazama 1 International Research Centre for River Basin Environment, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan 2Matsudo Research Laboratory, Hitachi Plant Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd., Chiba, Japan E-mail : wilawank1@, tatsuo.sumino.cj@, kfutaba@yamanashi.ac.jp Received October 27, 2010; revised December 1, 2010; accepted January 2, 2011 Abstract To study the effect of free cells (suspended bacteria) on performance of entrapped bacteria system (i.e. poly- ethylene glycol (PEG)-pellet reactor) to treat NH4-N contaminated groundwater, two PEG-pellet reactors with a lot of free cells - Reactor A containing PEG-pellet and Reactor B containing PEG-pellet and support- ing material - and the another control reactor without free cells (Reactor C) were set-up. Three reactors were operated under various NH4-N concentrations (40-60 mg/L) and various temperatures (5-25ºC). The results show that the free cells effected on the NH4-N removal efficiency significantly. The free cells developed to be a biofilm layer on the pellet surface for Reactor A, the biofilm layer caused the decreasing NH4-N diffu- sion and incomplete nitrification eventually. On the other hand, most free cells attached to the supporting material for Reactor B. Although the NH4-N could diffuse properly, the free cells consuming acetate caused the added acetate was insufficient f