Performance of a Constructed Wetland and Pretreatment System Receiving Potato Farm Wash Water
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Farm Description
2.2. Treatment System Description
2.3. Pretreatment Description
2.4. Treatment Wetland Description
2.5. Treatment System Monitoring
2.6. Calculations
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Environmental Conditions
3.2. Pretreatment
3.3. Constructed Wetland
3.4. The Entire Treatment System
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Treatment System Component | Year | Area (m2) | Volume (m3) | Average Inflow (m3·month−1) | HRT (months) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Winter | Summer | Winter | Summer | ||||
Entire system | Y1 | 1119 | 740 | 352 | 456 | 2.1 | 1.6 |
Y2 | 1119 | 1433 | 270 | 200 | 5.3 | 7.2 | |
Wetland | Y1 | 172 | 56 | 199 | 245 | 0.28 | 0.23 |
Y2 | 172 | 56 | 93 | 263 | 0.60 | 0.21 |
Year 1 | Winter | Spring/Summer | ||||||||||
Inflow | Outflow | % CR | Inflow | Outflow | % CR | |||||||
C1 | C4 | C4 | C1 to C4 | C1 to C3 | C4 | C1 | C4 | C4 | C1 to C4 | C1 to C3 | C4 | |
BOD5 | 1290 | 265 | 197 | 85% | 80% | 25% | 1190 | 144 | 98.0 | 92% | 88% | 32% |
TSS | 6710 | 357 | 316 | 95% | 95% | 12% | 5450 | 131 | 91.6 | 98% | 98% | 30% |
TN | 363 | 100 | 98.4 | 73% | 73% | 1% | 238 | 138 | 129 | 46% | 42% | 7% |
NH3-N | 107 | 58.7 | 54.8 | 49% | 45% | 7% | 57.3 | 17.7 | 14.7 | 75% | 69% | 17% |
TP | 21.8 | 27.4 | 24.0 | −10% | −26% | 12% | 55.1 | 12.7 | 11.1 | 80% | 77% | 13% |
N | 7 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 11 | ||||||
Year 2 | Winter | Spring/Summer | ||||||||||
Inflow | Outflow | % CR | Inflow | Outflow | % CR | |||||||
C1 | C4 | C4 | C1 to C4 | C1 to C3 | C4 | C1 | C4 | C4 | C1 to C4 | C1 to C3 | C4 | |
BOD5 | 1690 | 1270 | n.a. | n.a. | 25% | n.a. | 276 | 221 | 39 | 86% | 60% | 65% |
TSS | 3210 | 137 | n.a. | n.a. | 96% | n.a. | 3680 | 50.3 | 32.2 | 99% | 99% | 36% |
TN | 548 | 184 | n.a. | n.a. | 66% | n.a. | 95.1 | 53.0 | 46.2 | 51% | 44% | 13% |
NH3-N | 244 | 63.5 | n.a. | n.a. | 74% | n.a. | 20.5 | 19.3 | 16.5 | 20% | 6% | 14% |
TP | 42.3 | 10.9 | n.a. | n.a. | 74% | n.a. | 50.7 | 4.66 | 4.43 | 91% | 91% | 5% |
N | 5 | 3 | n.a. | 6 | 8 | 8 |
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Bosak, V.; VanderZaag, A.; Crolla, A.; Kinsley, C.; Gordon, R. Performance of a Constructed Wetland and Pretreatment System Receiving Potato Farm Wash Water. Water 2016, 8, 183. https://doi.org/10.3390/w8050183
Bosak V, VanderZaag A, Crolla A, Kinsley C, Gordon R. Performance of a Constructed Wetland and Pretreatment System Receiving Potato Farm Wash Water. Water. 2016; 8(5):183. https://doi.org/10.3390/w8050183
Chicago/Turabian StyleBosak, Vera, Andrew VanderZaag, Anna Crolla, Christopher Kinsley, and Robert Gordon. 2016. "Performance of a Constructed Wetland and Pretreatment System Receiving Potato Farm Wash Water" Water 8, no. 5: 183. https://doi.org/10.3390/w8050183