Does influent C/N ratio affect pollutant removal and greenhouse gas emission in wastewater ecological soil infiltration systems with/without intermittent aeration? | Zendy

Junling Pang | Zendy; Mo Yang | Zendy; Deli Tong | Zendy; Xu Fu | Zendy; Linli Huang | Zendy; Bo Sun | Zendy; Jing Pan | Zendy

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Does influent C/N ratio affect pollutant removal and greenhouse gas emission in wastewater ecological soil infiltration systems with/without intermittent aeration?

Author(s) -

Junling Pang,

Mo Yang,

Deli Tong,

Xu Fu,

Linli Huang,

Bo Sun,

Jing Pan

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

water science and technology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.406

H-Index - 137

eISSN - 1996-9732

pISSN - 0273-1223

DOI - 10.2166/wst.2020.141

Subject(s) - aeration , pollutant , wastewater , environmental engineering , chemical oxygen demand , greenhouse gas , sewage treatment , environmental science , environmental chemistry , constructed wetland , infiltration (hvac) , chemistry , pulp and paper industry , ecology , biology , materials science , organic chemistry , engineering , composite material

Wastewater ecological soil infiltration system (WESIS) is a land treatment technology for decentralized wastewater treatment that has been applied all over the world. In this study, the pollutant removal, emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and functional gene abundances with different influent C/N ratios were evaluated in WESISs with/without intermittent aeration. Intermittent aeration and influent C/N ratio affect pollutant removal and GHG emission. Increased influent C/N ratio led to high total nitrogen (TN) removal, low CH 4 and N 2 O emission in the aerated WESIS, which was different from the non-aerated WESIS. High average removal efficiencies of chemical oxygen demand (COD) (94.8%), NH 4 + -N (95.1%), TN (91.2%), total phosphorus (TP) (91.1%) and low emission rates for CH 4 (27.2 mg/(m 2 d)) and N 2 O (10.5 mg/(m 2 d)) were achieved with an influent C/N ratio of 12:1 in the aerated WESIS. Intermittent aeration enhanced the abundances of bacterial 16S rRNA, amoA, nxrA, narG, napA, nirK, nirS, qnorB, nosZ genes and decreased the abundances of the mcrA gene, which are involved in pollutant removal and GHG emission. Intermittent aeration would be an effective alternative to achieving high pollutant removal and low CH 4 and N 2 O emission in high influent C/N ratio wastewater treatment.

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