“…The process promotes the reduction of nitrate to nitrogen gas (N2), and is carried out by bacteria of the genera Alcaligenes, Archromobacter, Thiosphaera, Rhodopseudomonas, Methanofollis sp., Bacillus sp., Pseudomonas sp., Paracoccus sp. and Enterococcus, which use nitrate in their respiratory process, removing nitrate from the medium (Deng et al, 2021;John et al, 2020). As in nitrification processes, denitrification processes can also be affected by some operational factors, such as pH, temperature, amount of organic carbon (C/N ratio) present in the medium and the concentration of DO, since the denitrification is anoxic and DO concentrations above 2 mg L -1 significantly limit the development and activity of denitrifying bacteria, which can lead to the accumulation of intermediate substances such as nitrite, nitric oxide and nitrous oxide (Zoppas et al, 2016).…”