“…The SBR technique has been fruitfully applied in many laboratories , although other approaches to culture these organisms have also been developed. Bioreactors such as upflow-anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors (Strous et al, 1998;Imajo et al, 2004;Schmidt et al, 2004a,b;Ni et al, 2010), rotating biological contactors (Van de Graaf et al, 1996;Egli et al, 2001Egli et al, , 2003Windey et al, 2005), and even manually fed batch cultivation systems (S anchez-Melsi o et al, 2009;Suneethi & Joseph, 2011;Yasuda et al, 2011) were used. All methods, however, rely on the settling properties of anammox cell aggregates.…”