Lu Shaoyong

Adsorption effect of ammonia by four fillings

Nitrogen is one kind of important elements related to eutrophication of lakes. The removal of exterior pollution source and interior pollution source is significant for eutrophication control of lakes. Ammonia removal by fillings is an important ways for the control of exterior pollution source of lakes. The ammonia adsorption behavior of four kinds of fillings, such as savageness zeolite, haydite, vermiculite and soil were investigated. The main way of ammonia removal by fillings, the effects of solution pH and temperature on removal rate of ammonia were observed. The results indicated that there were significant differences between zeolite and other fillings, and the sorption efficiency in the order were zeolite, vermiculi, soil and haydite. The ion exchange function is the main way of removing ammonia by zeolite, zeolite has the worst sorption ability, whereas other three fillings have almost the same sorption and ion exchange capacities. In addition, adsorption capacities of these four fillings decreased as temperature increased between 15-35℃; as the pH values increased at the range of 3-9 the adsorption capacities of these four fillings increase too. All adsorption experiments reached equilibrium within six hours.

Impact of hydraulic loading on removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from vertical-flow wetland

The effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) removal on lab-simulated vertical wetland systems, each containing eight dominant species, under continuous- and intermittent-flow feeding modes, were determined. The main results were: (1) PAHs removal effect was greater in intermittent-flow system than in continuous-flow system, with the exception of the floating plant Hydrilla verticillata wetland. This may be due to pollutants remaining stable for longer duration under intermittent-flow mode, which is conducive to microbial, plant, and water absorption of PAHs, as well as to microbial decomposition and absorption by plant roots; (2) absorption and degradation rates of PAHs varied among wetland body plants in different periods with removal efficiencies of 30%–70% observed following the first and fifth cycles, and under high-performance degradation conditions; (3) mean removal rates of PAHs by hydrophytes under continuous-flow mode were as follows: H. verticillata (34.4%), Arundo donax (Gramineae) (33.2%), Phragmites australis (28.7%), Ipomoea aquatica Forsk (Convolvulaceae) (28.5%), Zizania aquatic (27.6%), Calla palustris (Araceae) (27.2%), Acorus calamus (26.8%), and Hardy canna (17.9%); (4) average rates of PAHs removal by hydrophyte under intermittent-flow mode were as follows: A. donax (40.5%), Z. aquatic (37.9%), A. calamus (37.0%), P. australis (36.9%), Hardy canna (34.6%), C. palustris (33.9%), I. aquatica (31.2%), and H. verticillata (29.3%).