Tongtong Liu, Guohong Liu, Ye Qiu, Jiajie Zhou, Jiannan Li, Jun Ma, Yujie Feng
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A comprehensive summary of removal mechanisms, advantages and disadvantages, influencing factors, and the applications status of these strategies in full-scale systems remains insufficient. This paper reviews different strategies applied for the intensifications of N removal in CWs, including the utilization of emerged substrates, bioaugmented CWs, the optimization of configurations and operation modes, and the combination with bioelectrochemical systems. It focuses on the strengthening mechanisms, major influencing factors, applications and challenges in full-scale CWs. Compared to the traditional CWs, nitrogen removal efficiency can be significantly improved in enhanced CWs with emerged substrates, bioaugmented CW and coupled system. But their broad applications in full-scale systems are hindered by several drawbacks, including the high cost, potential secondary pollutions (e.g. excessive effluent chromaticity, high pH levels) and uncertainty in long-term relative effectiveness. The optimization of configurations and operation modes in CWs, which are the most commonly used in full-scale CWs, does not appear to be consistently effective for enhanced N removal because of the complex operation conditions. 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A review of enhanced strategies for nitrogen removal in constructed wetlands: from design, influencing factors to full-scale applications and challenges
Enhanced N removal from water bodies has always been a research hotspot, as excessive nitrogen discharge will lead to eutrophication and causing a threat to aquatic ecosystems. An effective ecological technology, constructed wetlands (CWs) have been used to undertake the task of deep-level nitrogen (N) removal from various types of wastewaters. However, due to the lack of electron donors and an unsuitable dissolved oxygen environment, the biological N removal process in CWs is usually limited. Therefore, numerous strategies for enhanced N removal in CWs have been developed; But these studies are mainly focus on the performance in lab-scale systems. A comprehensive summary of removal mechanisms, advantages and disadvantages, influencing factors, and the applications status of these strategies in full-scale systems remains insufficient. This paper reviews different strategies applied for the intensifications of N removal in CWs, including the utilization of emerged substrates, bioaugmented CWs, the optimization of configurations and operation modes, and the combination with bioelectrochemical systems. It focuses on the strengthening mechanisms, major influencing factors, applications and challenges in full-scale CWs. Compared to the traditional CWs, nitrogen removal efficiency can be significantly improved in enhanced CWs with emerged substrates, bioaugmented CW and coupled system. But their broad applications in full-scale systems are hindered by several drawbacks, including the high cost, potential secondary pollutions (e.g. excessive effluent chromaticity, high pH levels) and uncertainty in long-term relative effectiveness. The optimization of configurations and operation modes in CWs, which are the most commonly used in full-scale CWs, does not appear to be consistently effective for enhanced N removal because of the complex operation conditions. In the future researches, special emphases of enhanced N strategies in CWs should be given to the reasonable structural design, simplicity and economy of enhanced strategies, and no secondary pollutions.
期刊介绍:
Water Research, along with its open access companion journal Water Research X, serves as a platform for publishing original research papers covering various aspects of the science and technology related to the anthropogenic water cycle, water quality, and its management worldwide. The audience targeted by the journal comprises biologists, chemical engineers, chemists, civil engineers, environmental engineers, limnologists, and microbiologists. The scope of the journal include:
•Treatment processes for water and wastewaters (municipal, agricultural, industrial, and on-site treatment), including resource recovery and residuals management;
•Urban hydrology including sewer systems, stormwater management, and green infrastructure;
•Drinking water treatment and distribution;
•Potable and non-potable water reuse;
•Sanitation, public health, and risk assessment;
•Anaerobic digestion, solid and hazardous waste management, including source characterization and the effects and control of leachates and gaseous emissions;
•Contaminants (chemical, microbial, anthropogenic particles such as nanoparticles or microplastics) and related water quality sensing, monitoring, fate, and assessment;
•Anthropogenic impacts on inland, tidal, coastal and urban waters, focusing on surface and ground waters, and point and non-point sources of pollution;
•Environmental restoration, linked to surface water, groundwater and groundwater remediation;
•Analysis of the interfaces between sediments and water, and between water and atmosphere, focusing specifically on anthropogenic impacts;
•Mathematical modelling, systems analysis, machine learning, and beneficial use of big data related to the anthropogenic water cycle;
•Socio-economic, policy, and regulations studies.