In this study, two types of industrial wastewater, oil-refining and steel-milling, were selected for investigating their feasibility of treatment by mesocosm constructed wetland systems. The secondly treated effluents from the wastewater treatment plants were directly discharged into the systems controlled at different flow rates. Three wetland mesocosms were installed in the two industries: mesocosms A and B were in the oil refinery, and mesocosm C was in the steel mill. The substratum media used in wetland systems were sand (mesocosm A) and gravel (mesocosms B and C), while the vegetation types selected were reeds (mesocosms A and B) and mixed species of reeds and cattails (mesocosm C). The flow regimes were controlled as free water surface (FWS) and subsurface flow (SSF) for the sand- and gravel-beds, respectively. According to the experimental results, we found that the system treating oil-refining wastewater performed better than that treating steel-milling wastewater learned by comparing the removal efficiencies of COD, total N and total P. In addition, it was found that for oil-refining wastewater treatments, the SSF wetland system (mesocosm B) performed better than FWS (mesocosm A) wetland system when comparing both of their removal of pollutants and growth of vegetation. Besides, the effluents from these two industrial wetland treatment systems might be reclaimed and reused for boiler water, cooling, cleaning and miscellaneous purposes in industries. Further treatments are required if the constructed wetland effluents are thought about being reused for processing in industries.
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Treatments of oil-refinery and steel-mill wastewaters by mesocosm constructed wetland systems Available to Purchase
L. Yang;
*Department of Marine Environment and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, 70 Lien Hai Road, Kaohsiung 802, Chinese, Taiwan (E-mail: [email protected])
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C.C. Hu
C.C. Hu
**Cha-Yi County Environmental Protection Bureau, 2-1 Chyang-Ho 2nd Road, W. Sec., Po-Tzi City, Cha-Yi County 613, Chinese, Taiwan (E-mail: [email protected])
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Water Sci Technol (2005) 51 (9): 157–164.
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L. Yang, C.C. Hu; Treatments of oil-refinery and steel-mill wastewaters by mesocosm constructed wetland systems. Water Sci Technol 1 May 2005; 51 (9): 157–164. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2005.0309
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