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Nutrient removal in pig farm wastewater using aquatic macrophytes - water hyacinth (eichhornia crassipes) and water lettuce (pistia stratiotes)

The efficiency of the two floating aquatic macrophytes (water hyacinth and water lettuce) to improve the water quality of pig fann wastewater was studied. Experiments were · conducted by using pig fann wastewater at different dilution (1: 1, 1:5 and 1 :9) as well as undiluted wastewater. Water hyaci...

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Main Author: Wee, Boon Hong.
Format: Final Year Project Report
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) 2005
Subjects:
QK Botany
QL Zoology
SB Plant culture
SF Animal culture
Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/19982/8/Wee%20Boon%20Hon%20%20%28fulltext%29.pdf
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spelling my.unimas.ir.199822024-03-11T03:52:17Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/19982/ Nutrient removal in pig farm wastewater using aquatic macrophytes - water hyacinth (eichhornia crassipes) and water lettuce (pistia stratiotes) Wee, Boon Hong. QK Botany QL Zoology SB Plant culture SF Animal culture The efficiency of the two floating aquatic macrophytes (water hyacinth and water lettuce) to improve the water quality of pig fann wastewater was studied. Experiments were · conducted by using pig fann wastewater at different dilution (1: 1, 1:5 and 1 :9) as well as undiluted wastewater. Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) and water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) grew well in the 1:5 dilution and 1:9 dilution wastewater. Hence, wastewater with 1:5 dilution was selected for the subsequent experiments for evaluating the nutrient removal efficiency of the plants in monoculture and polyculture. The water parameters evaluated in this experiment were water tempemture, pH, dissolved oxygen, ammonia-N, and total phosphorus. For plant contents, total nitrogen and total phosphorus were studied. Throughout the experiments, solar mdiation and surrounding tempemture were continuously monitored. The reduction mte for ammonia-N and total phosphorus followed first-order kinetics. In terms of percent reduction of total phosphorus, water hyacinth monoculture has the greatest perfonnance (62.98%), followed by polyculture system (54.45%). Whereas for percent reduction of ammonia-N, all the plant systems have similar efficiency whereby reducing the ammonia-N up to 99%. Moreover, water hyacinth monoculture could also improve the pig fann wastewater quality in tenns of the pH (pH 7.33) and dissolved oxygen (DO = 7.94mgIL). Therefore, water hyacinth monoculture would serve to be a better floating aquatic macrophytebased wastewater treatment system in nutrient reduction followed by polyculture and water lettuce monoculture. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) 2005 Final Year Project Report NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/19982/8/Wee%20Boon%20Hon%20%20%28fulltext%29.pdf Wee, Boon Hong. (2005) Nutrient removal in pig farm wastewater using aquatic macrophytes - water hyacinth (eichhornia crassipes) and water lettuce (pistia stratiotes). [Final Year Project Report] (Unpublished)
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topic QK Botany
QL Zoology
SB Plant culture
SF Animal culture
spellingShingle QK Botany
QL Zoology
SB Plant culture
SF Animal culture
Wee, Boon Hong.
Nutrient removal in pig farm wastewater using aquatic macrophytes - water hyacinth (eichhornia crassipes) and water lettuce (pistia stratiotes)
description The efficiency of the two floating aquatic macrophytes (water hyacinth and water lettuce) to improve the water quality of pig fann wastewater was studied. Experiments were · conducted by using pig fann wastewater at different dilution (1: 1, 1:5 and 1 :9) as well as undiluted wastewater. Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) and water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) grew well in the 1:5 dilution and 1:9 dilution wastewater. Hence, wastewater with 1:5 dilution was selected for the subsequent experiments for evaluating the nutrient removal efficiency of the plants in monoculture and polyculture. The water parameters evaluated in this experiment were water tempemture, pH, dissolved oxygen, ammonia-N, and total phosphorus. For plant contents, total nitrogen and total phosphorus were studied. Throughout the experiments, solar mdiation and surrounding tempemture were continuously monitored. The reduction mte for ammonia-N and total phosphorus followed first-order kinetics. In terms of percent reduction of total phosphorus, water hyacinth monoculture has the greatest perfonnance (62.98%), followed by polyculture system (54.45%). Whereas for percent reduction of ammonia-N, all the plant systems have similar efficiency whereby reducing the ammonia-N up to 99%. Moreover, water hyacinth monoculture could also improve the pig fann wastewater quality in tenns of the pH (pH 7.33) and dissolved oxygen (DO = 7.94mgIL). Therefore, water hyacinth monoculture would serve to be a better floating aquatic macrophytebased wastewater treatment system in nutrient reduction followed by polyculture and water lettuce monoculture.
format Final Year Project Report
author Wee, Boon Hong.
author_facet Wee, Boon Hong.
author_sort Wee, Boon Hong.
title Nutrient removal in pig farm wastewater using aquatic macrophytes - water hyacinth (eichhornia crassipes) and water lettuce (pistia stratiotes)
title_short Nutrient removal in pig farm wastewater using aquatic macrophytes - water hyacinth (eichhornia crassipes) and water lettuce (pistia stratiotes)
title_full Nutrient removal in pig farm wastewater using aquatic macrophytes - water hyacinth (eichhornia crassipes) and water lettuce (pistia stratiotes)
title_fullStr Nutrient removal in pig farm wastewater using aquatic macrophytes - water hyacinth (eichhornia crassipes) and water lettuce (pistia stratiotes)
title_full_unstemmed Nutrient removal in pig farm wastewater using aquatic macrophytes - water hyacinth (eichhornia crassipes) and water lettuce (pistia stratiotes)
title_sort nutrient removal in pig farm wastewater using aquatic macrophytes - water hyacinth (eichhornia crassipes) and water lettuce (pistia stratiotes)
publisher Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
publishDate 2005
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/19982/8/Wee%20Boon%20Hon%20%20%28fulltext%29.pdf
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