Effects and mechanisms of constructed wetlands with different substrates on N2O emission in wastewater treatment.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
; 29(13): 19045-19053, 2022 Mar.
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in En
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| ID: mdl-34713400
ABSTRACT
Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from constructed wetlands (CWs) are accompanying problems and have attracted much attention in recent years. CWs filled with different substrates (gravel, biochar, zeolite, and pyrite) were constructed to investigate the nitrogen removal performance and N2O emissions, which named C-CWs, B-CWs, Z-CWs, and P-CWs, respectively. C-CWs showed the poorest nitrogen removal performance in all CWs. Although B-CWs exhibited the highest fluxes of N2O emissions, the percentage of N2O emissions in nitrogen removal (0.15%) was smaller than that of C-CWs (0.18%). In addition, microbiological analysis showed that compared with C-CWs, CWs filled with biochar, zeolite, and pyrite had higher abundance of nitrifying and denitrifying microorganisms and lower abundance of N2O producing bacteria. In conclusion, biochar, zeolite, and pyrite were more favorable kinds of substrate than the conventional substrates of gravel for the nitrogen removal and reduction of N2O emissions from CWs.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Water Purification
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Greenhouse Gases
Language:
En
Journal:
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
Journal subject:
SAUDE AMBIENTAL
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TOXICOLOGIA
Year:
2022
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
China