Kinetics of pollutants removal in hybrid treatment wetlands – Case study comparison

Magdalena Gajewska; Katarzyna Cur; Krzysztof Jóźwiakowski; Piotr Bugajski

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2018.06.006

Kinetics of pollutants removal in hybrid treatment wetlands – Case study comparison

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Recent years have seen an increasing interest in hybrid constructed wetland (HCW) systems for domestic sewage treatment. This paper is focused on kinetics of removal of the main pollutants occurring in wastewater i.e. organics expressed as chemical oxygen demand, biochemical oxygen demand and total nitrogen. The purpose of the article is to compare different HCW configurations in terms of mass removal rates (MRR) and removal rate coefficients (kA and kv). Analysed data have been collected at two wetland systems, each composed by two subsurface flow beds: horizontal flow (HF) and vertical flow (VF). Reliable evaluation was achieved by using the same composition of influent wastewater in both HCWs. Performance of opposite configurations HF + VF vs. VF + HF was compared after each stage and the overall HCW system. The average mass removal rates of COD, BOD5 and TN in both systems were similar, respectively: 2.30, 0.98 and 0.40 g m−2 d−1. However, removal rates differ between single wetland beds after each treatment stage.

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Magdalena Gajewska prof. dr hab. inż.
Katarzyna Cur (formerly: Katarzyna Skrzypiec)
Krzysztof Jóźwiakowski dr hab
- Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Lublinie Katedra Inżynierii Środowiska i Geodezji
Piotr Bugajski
- Uniwersytet Rolniczy w Krakowie Katedra Inżynierii Sanitarnej i Gospodarki Wodnej

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
Published in:: ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING no. 120, pages 222 - 229,
ISSN: 0925-8574
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2018
Bibliographic description:: Gajewska M., Skrzypiec K., Jóźwiakowski K., Bugajski P.: Kinetics of pollutants removal in hybrid treatment wetlands – Case study comparison// ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING. -Vol. 120, (2018), s.222-229
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2018.06.006
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