The invention relates to a method for processing nitrogen-concentrated
effluents by ammonia oxidation into nitrites followed by nitrite
denitritation in a gaseous nitrogen in a sequential biological reactor
(1) consisting in pouring a processable effluent volume in to the reactor
by successive volume fractions, in dividing the entire processing cycle
into successive sub cycles, wherein each sub-cycle comprises a feeding
phase, an aeration phase for nitrification and an anoxia phase along
which a carbon-containing source is introduced into the reactor for
converting nitrites into nitrogen. The inventive method also consists in
evaluating a nitrogenous volume charge in the effluent to be processed,
mainly by measuring the effluent conductivity (X) and the flow rate (Q)
and in determining the number of feeding phases of the entire cycle
according to nitrogenous charge and to a minimum volume of liquid in the
reactor in such a way that an injected nitrogen concentration is diluted
in the liquid volume, wherein the volume phase nitrogenous charge is
however sufficient for producing a single shot or peak of the ammonia
charge favourable for a nitrating biomass formation in the reactor.