Wastewater Treatment and Wood Production of Willow System in Cold Climate
This article studied how wastewater treatment performance of a short rotation forestry system was influenced by the seasonal operational changes under the extreme Mongolian winter conditions. For this reason, two beds planted with Willow (Salix <i>spec.</i>) and Poplar (Populus <i>...
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| author | Ganbaatar Khurelbaatar Manfred van Afferden Christopher M. Sullivan Christoph Fühner Jamsaran Amgalan Jöerg Londong Roland Arno Müller |
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| description | This article studied how wastewater treatment performance of a short rotation forestry system was influenced by the seasonal operational changes under the extreme Mongolian winter conditions. For this reason, two beds planted with Willow (Salix <i>spec.</i>) and Poplar (Populus <i>spec.</i>) trees were operated over a period of two years under two different seasonal conditions: (A) “external winter storage” and (B) “internal winter storage” of pretreated wastewater. For operational condition A, the tree-bed was loaded with wastewater for only 4 summer months. For this operational condition it was considered that the treatment bed was fed with primary treated wastewater, which was stored in a sealed pond during the remaining 8 months. The other Bed B was irrigated throughout the year (12 months) with the same daily loading rate. In winter, the wastewater accumulated as ice in the tree-bed. Bed A, with external winter storage, showed mass removal percentage up to 95%, while the bed with internal winter storage showed mass removal rates up to 86% for pollutants such as COD, BOD<sub>5</sub>, TN, and TP. A high yield of biomass was recorded for both beds with slight differences. Based on the results, a design recommendation was developed for full-scale systems of short rotation coppice irrigated with wastewater under various operational conditions, which show these systems to be a viable method for treating wastewater and producing biomass for energy production in Mongolia. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6832dec0cc8b48d083e11678c843bea92023-11-21T23:32:25ZengMDPI AGWater2073-44412021-06-011312163010.3390/w13121630Wastewater Treatment and Wood Production of Willow System in Cold ClimateGanbaatar Khurelbaatar0Manfred van Afferden1Christopher M. Sullivan2Christoph Fühner3Jamsaran Amgalan4Jöerg Londong5Roland Arno Müller6Centre for Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, GermanyCentre for Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, GermanyCentre for Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, GermanyCentre for Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, GermanyDepartment of Technology, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Ulaanbaatar 14191, MongoliaChair of Urban Water Management and Sanitation, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, 99421 Weimar, GermanyCentre for Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, GermanyThis article studied how wastewater treatment performance of a short rotation forestry system was influenced by the seasonal operational changes under the extreme Mongolian winter conditions. For this reason, two beds planted with Willow (Salix <i>spec.</i>) and Poplar (Populus <i>spec.</i>) trees were operated over a period of two years under two different seasonal conditions: (A) “external winter storage” and (B) “internal winter storage” of pretreated wastewater. For operational condition A, the tree-bed was loaded with wastewater for only 4 summer months. For this operational condition it was considered that the treatment bed was fed with primary treated wastewater, which was stored in a sealed pond during the remaining 8 months. The other Bed B was irrigated throughout the year (12 months) with the same daily loading rate. In winter, the wastewater accumulated as ice in the tree-bed. Bed A, with external winter storage, showed mass removal percentage up to 95%, while the bed with internal winter storage showed mass removal rates up to 86% for pollutants such as COD, BOD<sub>5</sub>, TN, and TP. A high yield of biomass was recorded for both beds with slight differences. Based on the results, a design recommendation was developed for full-scale systems of short rotation coppice irrigated with wastewater under various operational conditions, which show these systems to be a viable method for treating wastewater and producing biomass for energy production in Mongolia.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/12/1630wastewater treatmentwastewater reusewood productionland applicationshort rotation coppiceand cold climate |
| spellingShingle | Ganbaatar Khurelbaatar Manfred van Afferden Christopher M. Sullivan Christoph Fühner Jamsaran Amgalan Jöerg Londong Roland Arno Müller Wastewater Treatment and Wood Production of Willow System in Cold Climate Water wastewater treatment wastewater reuse wood production land application short rotation coppice and cold climate |
| title | Wastewater Treatment and Wood Production of Willow System in Cold Climate |
| title_full | Wastewater Treatment and Wood Production of Willow System in Cold Climate |
| title_fullStr | Wastewater Treatment and Wood Production of Willow System in Cold Climate |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wastewater Treatment and Wood Production of Willow System in Cold Climate |
| title_short | Wastewater Treatment and Wood Production of Willow System in Cold Climate |
| title_sort | wastewater treatment and wood production of willow system in cold climate |
| topic | wastewater treatment wastewater reuse wood production land application short rotation coppice and cold climate |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/12/1630 |
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