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Performance assessment of normal and electrode-assisted floating wetlands: influence of input pollutant loads, surface area, and positioning of anode electrodes

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
卷 30, 期 7, 页码 18601-18616

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SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-23461-3

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MFC-floating wetlands; Microbial decomposition; Physical separation; Removal stability; Unstable loadings

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This study reports the design and development of microbial fuel cell assisted floating wetlands and compares their effectiveness in wastewater treatment with normal floating wetlands. The results indicate that the electrode-integrated floating wetlands show better pollutant removal performance, especially under unstable input pollutant loading conditions.
This study reports the design and development of microbial fuel cell (MFC) assisted floating wetlands and compares treatment removal performance with a normal (without electrodes) floating wetland. Both types of floating wetlands were planted with Phragmites plant and evaluated for real municipal wastewater treatment. The effective volume of each floating wetland was 0.5 m(3). The floating wetlands were operated under variable hydraulic load rates, i.e., 20 and 60 mm/day. Mean 5-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), chemical oxygen demand (COD), ammoniacal nitrogen (NH4-N), total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), total suspended solids (TSS), and coliform removal percentages ranged between 71 and 96%, 72 and 94%, 62 and 86%, 58 and 75%, 82 and 97%, 64 and 92%, and 72 and 93%, respectively within the normal and electrode-assisted MFC integrated floating wetlands. The electrode-integrated floating wetlands showed better pollutant removal performance than the normal system under unstable input pollutant loading conditions. Nitrogen and organic matter removals were achieved through both electrochemically active and inactive microbial removal routes. Physical separation processes, such as filtration and sedimentation, contributed to phosphorus, solids, and coliform removal. Plant uptake contributed to micro-scale nitrogen (<= 1%) and phosphorus (<= 0.1%) removal. Increment of hydraulic/pollutant load improved organic removal but decreased nutrient removal performance of the normal, electrode-integrated floating wetlands. The electrode-integrated floating wetlands produced power densities ranging between 0.7 and 1.4 mW/m(3), and 0.2 and 2.3 mW/m(3) during lower, upper input loading ranges, respectively. Bioenergy production of the electrode-integrated floating wetlands varied within the two operational periods due to a wider range of electrochemically inactive microbial populations in real wastewater that interfered with electrochemical organic matter oxidation. The positioning difference of the anode electrodes was a significant factor that improved pollutant removal within the electrode-integrated floating wetlands compared to the other variable, i.e., anode electrodes surface area.

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