Journal
ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 81, Issue -, Pages 53-61Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2015.04.028
Keywords
Removal rate constant; Constructed wetland; Influencing factor; Aquaculture wastewater; Dynamic simulation
Funding
- Key Project of the National Twelfth-Five Year Research Program of China [2012BAD25B05-01]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31202034]
- earmarked fund for China Agriculture Research System [CARS-46]
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This paper proposed an assumption that the area-based first-order removal rate constant (k) of constructed wetland (CW) could be linearly determined by multiple influencing factors based on the classic k-C* model. The assumption was further validated by STELLA (R) using datasets from nine-batch pilot-scale vertical-flow CWs treating aquaculture wastewater under two different operating conditions: i.e., submersed state (SS) and non-submersed state (NS). A before-and-after comparison indicated that wetland state shift impacted N removal. Under SS, TN was mainly removed by sedimentation coupled with nitrification/denitrification, while under NS, it was mainly through sedimentation. Factor loadings showed that temperature presented heavier impact on k compared to the other factors. The simulations reflected the variation trend of observations well but the model precision was poor. Sensitivity analysis revealed that the dynamic model was more sensitive to the influencing factors under NS than it was under SS with temperature, pH and concentration having relatively higher SI compared to the other factors. Overall, this work might provide a new approach to simulate outflow and could be used for system design, prediction or optimization. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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