Data of bromide sorption experiments with woodchips and tracer testing of denitrification beds

Ehsan Ghane; Gary W Feyereisen; Carl J Rosen

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.103914

Data of bromide sorption experiments with woodchips and tracer testing of denitrification beds

Data Brief. 2019 Apr 17:24:103914. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.103914. eCollection 2019 Jun.

Authors

Ehsan Ghane¹, Gary W Feyereisen², Carl J Rosen³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
² Soil and Water Management Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA.
³ Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA.

Abstract

Three different woodchip forms were tested for bromide sorption including ground woodchip, unwashed woodchips, and washed woodchips. We used six varying initial bromide concentrations to conduct the bromide sorption experiments with each woodchip form. Data on the initial and equilibrium bromide concentrations, wood mass, and initial and equilibrium solution pH from each of the six experiments are presented. Seven bromide tracer tests were conducted on field-scale denitrification beds. In this paper, data from each of the tracer tests including variation of bromide concentration over time and hydraulic indices of the tracer tests are presented. Interpretation of the data can be found in the research article entitled "Efficacy of bromide tracers for evaluating the hydraulic performance of denitrification beds treating agricultural drainage water" [1].

Keywords: Denitrifying bioreactor; Effective porosity; Hydraulic retention time; Subsurface drainage; Tile drainage; Woodchip bioreactor.