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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 446, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2022.136895
Keywords
Siphon constructed wetland; Benzo[a]pyrene; Nutrients; Iron cycle; Pseudoxanthomonas
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51908326, 51720105013, 51925803]
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The study found that applying a siphon in a constructed wetland can improve the removal efficiency of ammonia nitrogen and total phosphorus, promoting nitrogen cycling and nitrification/denitrification reactions. The environment created by the siphon favors the removal of benzo[a]pyrene and enhances the growth of benzo[a]pyrene-degrading bacteria.
Due to its limited dissolved oxygen concentration, constructed wetland (CW) could not remove nutrients and benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) effectively. Therefore, in this study, a siphon was applied in CW (Si-CW) to create tidal flow to achieve efficient removal of nutrients and B[a]P, and the removal mechanism was explored. The results showed that the NH4+ and TP removal values for the Si-CW were 55.95% +/- 7.75% and 20.79% +/- 8.39%, which exceeded those for the conventional CW (CCW). Alternative anaerobic and aerobic environments formed by siphon also enabled magnetite in Si-CW to form the iron cycle (Fe2+/Fe(3+ )cycle), which promoted the occurrence of simultaneous nitrification and denitrification and hydrogen-utilizing autotrophic denitrification and improved nitrogen removal significantly. The mass balance showed that microbial degradation was the main mechanism of B[a]P removal (39.0% - 54.0%). Si-CW possessed better oxygen conditions and iron cycles, favoring the propagation and growth of B[a]P-degrading bacteria (i.e., Pseudoxanthomonas) while enhancing the proportion of microbial degradation of B[a]P. Metagenomic analysis indicated that Si-CW had a higher TC.FEV.OM gene expression of Pseudoxanthomonas, which could regulate the siderophores produced by Pseudoxanthomonas through the metabolic pathway (K02014) of the iron complex outer-membrane receptor protein to achieve efficient B[a]P removal.
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