[Study on nitrogen removal treating agriculture wastewater in subsurface constructed wetland]

Huan Jing Ke Xue. 2003 Jan;24(1):113-6.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

Nitrogen removal in subsurface constructed wetland treating agriculture non-pointed wastewater was studied in pilot-scale. The experimental results showed that the removal rates of TN increases with HRT increasing. The removal rates of TN achieved 60% in macrophyte bed system when the nominal hydraulic retention time was 5 days. Removal of TN followed first-order plug flow kinetics. Rate constant of Non-plant bed, Phragmitas communis bed and Zizania caduciflora bed was 0.14, 0.26 and 0.20 d-1 respectively. Denitrification was the main removal mechanism of total nitrogen, the amount of TN that can be removed by harvesting were above 15% compared to the loading into constructed wetland system.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Agriculture*
  • Ecosystem*
  • Nitrogen / isolation & purification*
  • Waste Disposal, Fluid / methods*
  • Water Movements
  • Water Pollution / prevention & control*

Substances

  • Nitrogen