期刊
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 584, 期 -, 页码 355-362出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.186
关键词
Constructed wetland; Environmental impact assessment; Decentralised wastewater treatment system; Life cycle assessment; Microbial fuel cells; Wastewater treatment
资金
- Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Spain) (Plan Nacional de I + D + i, Subprograma Juan de la Cierva (JDC) [JCI201211881]
- FLAGAUR, Generalitat de Catalunya
The aim of this study was to assess the environmental impact of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) implerriented in constructed wetlands (CWs). To this aim a life cycle assessment (LCA) was carried out comparing three scenarios: 1) a conventional CW system (without MFC implementation); 2) a CW system coupled with a gravel-based anode MFC, and 3) a CW system coupled with a graphite-based anode MFC. All systems served a population equivalent of 1500 p.e. They were designed to meet the same effluent quality. Since MFCs implemented in CWs improve treatment efficiency, the CWs coupled with MFCs had lower specific area requirement compared to the conventional CW system. The functional unit was 1 m(3) of wastewater. The LCA was performed with the software SimaPro (R) 8, using the CML-IA baseline method. The three scenarios considered showed similar environmental performance in all the categories considered, with the exception of Abiotic Depletion Potential. In this impact category, the potential environmental impact of the CW system coupled with a gravel-based anode MFC was around 2 times higher than that generated by the conventional CW system and the CW system coupled with a graphite based anode MFC. It was attributed to the large amount of less environmentally friendly materials (e.g. metals, graphite) for MFCs implementation, especially in the case of gravel-based anode MFCs. Therefore, the CW system coupled with graphite-based anode MFC appeared as the most environmentally friendly solution which can replace conventional CWs reducing system footprint by up to 20%. An economic assessment showed that this system was around 1.5 times more expensive than the conventional CW system. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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