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The aim of this Project is to create an innovative Technology that will allow to achieve mainstream shortcut nitrification/denitrification via nitrite at municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Achieving this objective will significantly reduce oxygen and organic carbon demand for nitrogen removal process, improve effluent quality and increase digester gas production. This Technology also includes a development of separate reactor for sludge disintegration with nitrous acid to aim easy biodegradable organic carbon for denitrification process improvement, which is usually limited by organic carbon available in raw wastewater. This Technology will therefore lead to lower energy consuption, better effluent quality and lower greenhouse gas emission. Those goals are perfectly suited in nowadays needs and EU policies. This project will benefit operators of wastewater treatment plants as well as scientific community by deepening our understanding of wastewater treatment biological processes and developing technology for better and less expensive wastewater treatment.