Journal
ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 95, Issue -, Pages 357-363Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.06.094
Keywords
Denitrification; Nitrification; Nitrogen treatment; Recirculating aquaculture systems; Pumice bottom substrate tank
Funding
- National Research University Project, Office of the Higher Education Commission [WCU-58-007-FW]
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This research investigated the efficiency of a pumice stone biofilter tank for nitrogen removal from a recirculating aquaculture system. The pumice bottom substrate nitrification-denitrification tank was a glass tank packed with a 5 cm depth of pumice stone (approximately 3 mm in diameter) at the bottom. It was found that the pumice stone could perform as a nitrification biofilter under aerobic conditions. When applying methanol as the external carbon source at a COD:N ratio of 5:1 and then covering the tank with a plastic sheet to reduce gas exchange, pumice stone could remove nitrate through denitrification. Thereafter, nitrification and denitrification treatments using the pumice tank were applied to a 100 L moderate density (10 kg m(-3)) recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) under laboratory conditions. The RAS consisted of a 100 L tilapia culture tank connected to a 100 L pumice tank packed with a 5 cm layer of pumice stone. It was found that the nitrification treatment performed by the pumice tank could control ammonia and nitrite concentrations within the required safety range throughout the 121-day culture period. When nitrate accumulated to approximately 50 mg-NL-1 in water, water recirculation was paused, after which batch denitrification treatment was performed by adding methanol at COD:N of 5:1 in the pumice tank. With nitrification-denitrification treatment, ammonia and nitrite concentrations were below 1 mg-NL-1 and nitrate was kept below 50 mg-NL-1 while nitrate in the control tank was as high as 352.47 +/- 9.67 mg-NL-1. Moreover, the pumice bottom substrate tank with methanol supplement had no negative effect on growth and survival of fish in the recirculating system. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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