Abstract
Two vermifilters were designed using persplex in which Canna indica was planted in one reactor (MAVF) and the other was without any plant (VmF), but earthworm Eisenia fetida was inoculated in both the filters. The filter consisted of two units: first vertical flow (VF) unit and second horizontal flow (HF) unit. Hydraulic load of synthetic dairy wastewater was maintained 0.6 md−1 in VF unit of the reactor. The average removal efficiencies of BOD5 and COD in MAVF were found to be 88.4% and 80.7%, respectively, while for VmF, it was 78.3% and 69.1%. Nitrogen is usually removed in nitrification and denitrification process. The combined unit removed 61.7% TN in MAVF and 51.3% in VmF reactor. Average TP removal was observed 77.8% and 73.4% in MAVF and VmF, respectively. The efficiency of MAVF was more than VmF.
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Abbreviations
- MAVF:
-
Macrophyte Assisted Vermifilter
- VmF:
-
Vermifilter
- VF:
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Vertical Flow
- HF:
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Horizontal Flow
- TN:
-
Total Nitrogen
- TP:
-
Total Phosphorous
- BOD:
-
Biochemical Oxygen Demand
- COD:
-
Chemical Oxygen Demand
- AOB:
-
Ammonium Oxidizing Bacteria
- PSM:
-
Phosphorous Solubilizing Microbes
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Samal, K., Singh, R., Dash, R.R., Bhunia, P. (2020). Investigation on the Effect of Planting Canna Indica in Two-Stage Vermifilter for Synthetic Dairy Wastewater Treatment. In: Kalamdhad, A. (eds) Recent Developments in Waste Management . Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 57. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0990-2_22
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