Journal
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 372, Issue -, Pages 708-714Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2019.04.180
Keywords
MET filters; RDSCW; DIET; Passive oxygenation; Nitrification; Denitrification
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- iMETland project - European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme [642190]
- National Research Agency of Argentina (ANPCyT) through its PICT Start-up Programme [PICT 2016-4809]
- H2020 Societal Challenges Programme [642190] Funding Source: H2020 Societal Challenges Programme
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This work presents a new configuration for constructed wetlands (CW) for treating urban and domestic wastewater with enhanced chemical oxygen demand (COD) and nitrogen removal efficiencies. In the new configuration three stacked stages of shallow depth, operated under partial saturation replace a traditional single stage vertical down flow CW. A single pulse of wastewater produces sequential aeration steps on each stage, improving convective oxygen transfer and therefore boosting the aerobic degradation of COD and nitrogen removal via nitrification denitrification reactions. When a conductive filling was used in the systems, the treatment performance was further improved due to direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) among bacteria in the bed. As a result, systems operated under a high organic load rate (75 g m(-2) d(-1)), removed 92% of the COD, 80% of the ammonia nitrogen (NH4-N) and 55% of the total nitrogen (TN). Besides, under a higher loading rate of 126 g m(-2) d(-1), COD degradation reached 85%. Traditional single-stage conductive units showed a poorer performance, indicating that high oxygen input may be a requirement for achieving high nitrogen and COD degradation efficiencies in treatment wetlands filled with conductive materials.
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