Nitrogen removal from secondary effluent by using integrated constructed wetland system

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 659-662

  Xiong, Jibing ^a   Guo, Guangli ^a   Mahmood, Qaisar ^b   Yue, Min ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Development Studies   (Pakistan)

^c XUZHOU COLLEGE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Biological nitrogen removal; Carbon resource; Denitrification; Integrated constructed wetland system; Nitrate

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA NITROGEN; BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN REMOVAL; CARBON RESOURCE; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; FLOATING-BED; NITRATE NITROGEN; NITRITE NITROGEN; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SAND FILTER; SECONDARY EFFLUENT; STEEL SLAG; TOTAL NITROGEN; TREATMENT CAPACITY; VERTICAL FLOW CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; VERTICAL-FLOW WETLAND;

DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; SLAGS;

WETLANDS;

CARBON; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT; FILTER; FLOATING BODY; GRASS; GRAVEL; NITROGEN; POLLUTANT REMOVAL;

COIX; VETIVERIA; VETIVERIA ZIZANIOIDES;

EID: 79951679206     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2010.12.025     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Abbès C., Parent L.E., Karam A. Ammonia sorption by peat and N fractionation in some peat-ammonia systems. Fertil. Res. 1993, 36:249-257.
2. Achak M., Mandi L., Ouzzani N. Removal of organic pollutants and nutrients from olive mill wastewater by a sand filter. J. Environ. Manage. 2009, 90:2771-2779.
3. APHA (American Public Health Association) Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater 1995, APHA, Washington, D.C. 19th ed.
4. Aslan S., Cakici H. Biological denitrification of drinking water in a slow sand filter. J. Hazard. Mater. 2007, 148:253-258.
5. Bahgat M., Dewedar A., Zayed A. Sand-filters used for wastewater treatment: buildup and distribution of microorganisms. Water Res. 1999, 33:1949-1955.
6. Bindu T., Sylas V.P., Mahesh M., Rakesh P.S., Ramasamy E.V. Pollutant removal from domestic wastewater with Taro (Colocasia esculenta) planted in a subsurface flow system. Ecolo. Eng. 2008, 33:68-82.
7. Blankenberg A-G.B., Haarstad K., Søvik A.-K. Nitrogen retention in constructed wetland fiters treating diffuse agriculture pollution. Desalination 2008, 226:114-120.
8. Greenway M. The role of constructed wetlands in secondary effluent treatment and water reuse in subtropical and arid Australia. Ecol. Eng. 2005, 25:501-509.
9. Huang J., Reneau R., Hageborn C. Nitrogen removal in constructed wetlands employed to treat domestic wastewater. Water Res. 2000, 34:2582-2588.
10. Kadlec R.H. The effects of wetland vegetation and morphology on nitrogen processing. Ecol. Eng. 2008, 33:126-141.
11. Kivaisi A.K. The potential for constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment and reused in developing countries: a review. Ecol. Eng. 2001, 16:545-560.
12. López-Ramírez J.A., Sahuquillo S., Sales D., Quiroga J.M. Pre-treatment optimization studies for secondary effluent reclamation with reverse osmosis. Water Res. 2003, 37:1177-1184.
13. Mcnevin D., Barford J. Inter-relationship between adsorption and pH in peat biofilters in the context of a cation-exchange mechanism. Water Res. 2001, 35:736-744.
14. Nakhla G., Farooq S. Simultaneous nitrification-denitrification in slow sand filters. J. Hazard. Mater. 2003, 96:291-303.
15. Steinmann C.R., Weinhart S., Melzer A. A combined system of lagoon and constructed wetland for an effective wastewater treatment. Water Res. 2003, 37:2035-2042.
16. Stone K.C., Poach M.E., Hunt P.G., Reddy G.B. Marsh-pond-mash constructed wetland design analysis for swine lagoon wastewater treatment. Ecol. Eng. 2004, 23:127-133.
17. Tunçsiper B. Nitrogen removal in a combined vertical and horizontal subsurface-flow constructed wetland system. Desalination 2009, 247:466-475.
18. Tunçsiper B. An experimental three-stage hybrid constructed wetland system for removal of organics and nutrient from domestic wastewater. Environ. Eng. Manage. J. 2009, 8(1):59-65.
19. Vymazal J. Horizontal sub-surface flow and hybrid constructed wetlands systems for wastewater treatment. Ecol. Eng. 2005, 25:478-490.
20. Vymazal J. Removal of nutrients in various types of constructed wetlands. Sci. Total Environ. 2007, 380:48-65.
21. Ye F.X., Li Y. Enhancement of nitrogen removal in towery hybrid constructed wetland to treat domestic wastewater for small rural communities. Ecol. Eng. 2009, 35:1043-1050.