Sewerage water treatment using phytoremediation
Noor Azme Omar1, Muhamad Huzaifah Wahap2, Zubaidi Johar3.
Surface water is contaminated by various toxic elements through anthropogenic activities and natural sources between residential and premises. Studies have shown that aquatic plants can improve surface water quality by purifying polluted surface water. Many studies have been introduced to treat sewerage water in conventional design. Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) development has become a key business and has cost the public and industries. Thus, sewerage treatment increased productive living costs after the global water and electricity tariffs. In this study, sewerage water at urban, rural, remote, or even islands could use some aquatic plant as an alternative sewerage water treatment. The study aims to identify the effectiveness level of certain marine species suitable for sewerage water treatment. Some aquatic plants were used in this study to determine the level of chemical absorption from wastewater. The testing plot was located in a small basin with constant, and water flow from the sewerage holding tank was controlled. This study used sewerage water from Puchong’s Sewerage Treatment Plant as a polluted source. The water quality at each basin was monitored and recorded daily at a constant water quality reading. The study found that certain aquatic species could absorb some chemical characteristics during the phytoremediation process, as seen by many previous studies. The treatment of sewerage sources for this study had deteriorated by over 20% from the sewerage characteristics using different species. This identified that alternative wastewater treatment using some species could treat selected sewerage water characteristics within a period. Further studies could be done to improve the treatment timeframe either on a different scale or in an integrated treatment mode to treat other wastewater characteristics.
Affiliation:
- National Water Research Institute of Malaysia (NAHRIM), Malaysia
- National Water Research Institute of Malaysia (NAHRIM), Malaysia
- National Water Research Institute of Malaysia (NAHRIM), Malaysia
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