Mixed greywater treatment for irrigation uses
Water contamination comes from many different sources, including, among others, factories, sewage treatment plants, mining activities (heavy metals), food-processing waste, agriculture runoff, animal waste, disposal of personal care products, and household chemicals. Therefore, the reuse of wastewat...
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| author | Eli Morales Rojas Jesús Rascón Lenin Quiñones Huatangari Segundo Chavez Quintana Manuel Oliva Manuel Emilio Milla Pino |
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| description | Water contamination comes from many different sources, including, among others, factories, sewage treatment plants, mining activities (heavy metals), food-processing waste, agriculture runoff, animal waste, disposal of personal care products, and household chemicals. Therefore, the reuse of wastewater has become a fundamental strategy for sustainable water management and maintaining environmental quality. In this sense, this research presents a simple and economic alternative to solving the problems caused by greywater, resulting from laundry activities. This paper evaluates a mixed system for the treatment of greywater. The mixed system has physical filters that are composed of river stone, concrete, river sand, and coal. A bioremediation technique is also evaluated, involving two types of aquatic plants, watercress (Nasturtium officinale L.) and duckweed (Lemma minor L.). This study showed significant differences in pH reduction, from 9.56 to 7.50, total suspended solids (TSS), from 1742.00 mg/L to 298.50 mg/L, phosphates, from 1.12 mg/L PO4 3¯ to 0.31 mg/L PO4 3- , and chemical oxygen demand (COD), from 472.38 mg/L to 8.52 mg/L. Thus, the results indicate that this system is efficient for the reuse of grey water for irrigation uses. Moreover, each parameter, with the exception of dissolved oxygen and total suspended solids (TSS), meets the maximum limits set by the Environmental Quality Standards for Category 3: irrigation water for vegetables and animal beverages and the FAO irrigation water standards. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f8ac71b001e94ff19c4c95cdd6af2e4f2022-12-21T20:18:52ZengInstituto de Pesquisas Ambientais em Bacias Hidrográficas (IPABHi)Revista Ambiente & Água1980-993X2020-12-0115611110.4136/ambi-agua.2599Mixed greywater treatment for irrigation usesEli Morales Rojas0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8623-3192Jesús Rascón1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9305-7203Lenin Quiñones Huatangari2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0953-328XSegundo Chavez Quintana3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0946-3445Manuel Oliva4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-0970Manuel Emilio Milla Pino5https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3931-9804Instituto de Investigación para el Desarrollo Sustentable de Ceja de Selva. Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza de Amazonas (UNTRM), Calle Higos Urco, n° 342-350-356, 01001, Chachapoyas, Amazonas, Peru. Instituto de Investigación para el Desarrollo Sustentable de Ceja de Selva. Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza de Amazonas (UNTRM), Calle Higos Urco, n° 342-350-356, 01001, Chachapoyas, Amazonas, Peru. Facultad de Ingeniería de Industrias Alimentarias. Universidad Nacional de Jaén (UNJ), Jirón Cuzco, n° 250, 06801, Jaén, Cajamarca, Peru.Instituto de Investigación para el Desarrollo Sustentable de Ceja de Selva. Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza de Amazonas (UNTRM), Calle Higos Urco, n° 342-350-356, 01001, Chachapoyas, Amazonas, Peru. Instituto de Investigación para el Desarrollo Sustentable de Ceja de Selva. Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza de Amazonas (UNTRM), Calle Higos Urco, n° 342-350-356, 01001, Chachapoyas, Amazonas, Peru. Facultad de Ingeniería Civil. Universidad Nacional de Jaén (UNJ), Jirón Cuzco, n° 250, 06801, Jaén, Cajamarca, Peru.Water contamination comes from many different sources, including, among others, factories, sewage treatment plants, mining activities (heavy metals), food-processing waste, agriculture runoff, animal waste, disposal of personal care products, and household chemicals. Therefore, the reuse of wastewater has become a fundamental strategy for sustainable water management and maintaining environmental quality. In this sense, this research presents a simple and economic alternative to solving the problems caused by greywater, resulting from laundry activities. This paper evaluates a mixed system for the treatment of greywater. The mixed system has physical filters that are composed of river stone, concrete, river sand, and coal. A bioremediation technique is also evaluated, involving two types of aquatic plants, watercress (Nasturtium officinale L.) and duckweed (Lemma minor L.). This study showed significant differences in pH reduction, from 9.56 to 7.50, total suspended solids (TSS), from 1742.00 mg/L to 298.50 mg/L, phosphates, from 1.12 mg/L PO4 3¯ to 0.31 mg/L PO4 3- , and chemical oxygen demand (COD), from 472.38 mg/L to 8.52 mg/L. Thus, the results indicate that this system is efficient for the reuse of grey water for irrigation uses. Moreover, each parameter, with the exception of dissolved oxygen and total suspended solids (TSS), meets the maximum limits set by the Environmental Quality Standards for Category 3: irrigation water for vegetables and animal beverages and the FAO irrigation water standards.https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-993X2020000600304&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=enbiological filterdetergentsmacrophytesphysical filterwater quality |
| spellingShingle | Eli Morales Rojas Jesús Rascón Lenin Quiñones Huatangari Segundo Chavez Quintana Manuel Oliva Manuel Emilio Milla Pino Mixed greywater treatment for irrigation uses Revista Ambiente & Água biological filter detergents macrophytes physical filter water quality |
| title | Mixed greywater treatment for irrigation uses |
| title_full | Mixed greywater treatment for irrigation uses |
| title_fullStr | Mixed greywater treatment for irrigation uses |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mixed greywater treatment for irrigation uses |
| title_short | Mixed greywater treatment for irrigation uses |
| title_sort | mixed greywater treatment for irrigation uses |
| topic | biological filter detergents macrophytes physical filter water quality |
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