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ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
卷 44, 期 22, 页码 3317-3330出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2022.2057236
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Rainwater runoff; nitrogen pollutants; bioretention filter; removal efficiency; ceramsite
This study used a mixture of cultivated soil and river sand as a modified bioretention filter to remove nitrogen pollutants from simulated rainwater runoff. By adding activated carbon and ceramsite, the permeability and nitrogen removal efficiency of the filter were improved. The results showed that the addition of activated carbon significantly improved nitrogen removal, while ceramsite at a 20% ratio achieved optimal percolate rate and nitrogen removal efficiencies. The modified bioretention filter demonstrated long-term stability and ammonium nitrogen was less likely to accumulate compared to nitrate-nitrogen and total nitrogen.
Conventional bioretention filters lack satisfactory performance in nitrogen removal. In this study, we used a mixture of cultivated soil and river sand as the bioretention filter to remove nitrogen pollutants from simulated rainwater runoff. To improve its permeability and nitrogen removal performance, both activated carbon and ceramsite were used as additives. The nitrogen removal processes and its mass accumulation in the modified bioretention filters were studied. The contribution of adsorption and biotransformation processes, together with the effects of percolate rate on nitrogen removal performance was explored. The results showed that an activated carbon layer in the bioretention filters could obviously improve nitrogen removal efficiencies, but its location made no significant difference in nitrogen removal performance. Bioretention filters modified with 20% of ceramsite could achieve the optimal percolate rate and nitrogen removal efficiencies. At given conditions, the average removal efficiencies of ammonium nitrogen (NH3-N), nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N), and total nitrogen (TN) by the modified bioretention filter reached 80.27%, 41.48%, and 59.45%, respectively. During the leaching processes, organic nitrogen originated in the filter materials can be mineralised into NH3-N, then be denitrified and completely removed in the anaerobic environment under flooding conditions. Biotransformation in the modified bioretention filters caused a reduction of NH3-N removal efficiency by 15.41% and an increase of NO3-N removal efficiency by 31.03%. The modified bioretention filter can withstand a long-term operation. Compared with NO3-N and TN, the pollutant of NH3-N in rainwater runoff is not easy to form a mass accumulation in the modified bioretention filter.
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