Abstract
Design of a Reed Bed System for Treatment of Domestic Wastewater using Native Plants
Highlights
Phytoremediation is one of the treatment technologies that utilize plants to remediate the pollutants in contaminated environments (Ismail et al, 2017; Purwanti et al, 2019)
The system achieved total removal of 77% for Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), 78% for BOD5, 66% for suspended solid, 62% for NH4–N, and 38% for phosphorus, which mean that effluent recirculation can be considered to be applied to improve the removal efficiency of reed bed by enhancing interactions between wastewater, plants, and microorganisms either on surface of the medium or in the rhizosphere
Considerable removal of COD and BOD5 was obtained in both systems
Summary
Phytoremediation is one of the treatment technologies that utilize plants to remediate the pollutants in contaminated environments (Ismail et al, 2017; Purwanti et al, 2019). It improves the condition of environments following the removal of the contamination (Bolan et al, 2011). The reed bed system is a combination of three interdependent key elements: the growing medium, the plants and the micro-organisms (Ismail et al, 2019; Manios et al, 2002; Zhang et al, 2013)
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