The research was aimed to choose the most appropriate aquatic plant in high capacity as grown in small wetland for community wastewater treatment, they were Typha angustifolia Linn., Cyperus corymbosus Rottb., and Canna indica Linn. The small wetland, sometimes called vertical flow constructed wetland (VFCW), has been designated on 100-m long, 5-m wide and 0.75-m deep in size in which four-hole pipes were laid down at the bottom for releasing some treated wastewater as effluent through the outlet to the storage reservoir. There must be paved the gravel on the bottom up to the level of 5-cm height and overtopping with sand about 15 cm that be followed by 30-cm mixed soil (soil: sand equivalent to 3:1). All selected aquatic plant species were planted in small wetland before flowing community wastewater until soil at saturated level for first week and about 30 cm during second week up to the maximum age of plants. The choosing aquatic plant species were only depended on the high efficiency of wastewater treatment. The most probable aquatic plant was selected on Typha as the first priority for high wastewater treatment efficiency, Canna the second, and more or less efficiency for the others. Fortunately, Typha has been grown well in everywhere, particularly flat wetland in central, west, east and down north of Thailand.
H.M.The King's initiative nature by nature process for community wastewater treatment has been conducted since 1990 at Laem Phak Bia sub district, Ban Laem district, Phetchaburi province, Thailand on UTM 1442240 to 1443480 N and 0619271 to 0619271 E. The fresh food markets and households were the point sources of Phetchaburi municipal wastewater that flowing newly construction sewage system in order to receive them to four sub stations on both sides of Phetchaburi river before pumping to Klongyang collection pond. The storage wastewater has been pumped about 3,600 cu.m./day through the 18.5 km. HPDE pipe and putting into sedimentation pond 1 and another four consecutive ponds (oxidation ponds 2, 3, 4, and 5) before the effluent flowing into the mangrove forest. However, the results of experiment found the values of BOD that showing drastic decreasing from Klongyang collection pond through the tip of 18.5 km. HPDE pipe to the sedimentation pond 1 then after it was gradually decreased from one oxidation pond to the next one. Highlight was placed on the obtained effluent after treated wastewater flowed over weir crest that finding BOD under standard and also the decreasing of total coliform bacteria and fecal coliform bacteria, particularly the pathogenic bacteria decreasing down to almost zero MPN/100mL. The question came up how total coliform bacteria and fecal coliform bacteria disappeared after the treated wastewater flowing over weir crest of the oxidation pond 3. The hypothesis was set on the effect of solar radiation to DO and H 2 O 2 which were employed for bacterial organic digestion process in wastewater treatment ponds by taking the measurement randomly on 19 May 2011 that solar radiation showing the solar energy between 0-750 W/m 2 all together with UV-A, UV-B, spectrum and net radiation.In order to accomplish the objectives of study, the wastewater quality indicators were found BOD in sedimentation pond 1 67.5 mg/L and oxidation pond 3 16.6 mg/L for 13 hours measurement. In the same manner, the values of DO and H 2 O 2 for 13 hours measurement found in oxidation pond 3 greater than sedimentation pond 1 in respect to 8.9 and 7.6 mg/L for DO and 2.27 and 0.31 µg/L for H 2 O 2 . Moreover, the polynomial correlation was studied in order to determine the relationship between net radiation and DO and found very high correlation coefficients in both sedimentation pond 1 and oxidation pond 3. For the quantity of H 2 O 2 , it was obtained the relationship between net radiation and H 2 O 2 in higher correlation coefficient in sedimentation pond 1 than oxidation pond 3 because of smaller amount of dissolved organic and inorganic matters in oxidation pond 3. It would be the reason that oxygen which occurred from phytoplankton and algae photosynthesis were not employed by organic digestion and respiration of bacteria. Therefore, it had to exist DO and accumulation only in water instead of producing H 2 O 2 in oxidation pond 3 during daylight time. This is why H 2 O 2 in oxidation pond 3 was not varied directly to ne...
The research on community wastewater treatment through small aquatic-planting and grass-filtration constructed wetland in cooperating with oxidation ponds is aimed to establish demonstration models for eliminating organic contaminants under nature-by-nature process, simple technology and less expenses. There have been 7 small wetlands on 100-m x 5-m x 0.75-m small vertical flow construction wetlands (VFCW), 7 small wetlands on 25-m x 5-m x 0.75-m small VFCW in cooperating with zero discharge, 2 experimental plots of planted mangrove forest and 5-consecutive oxidation ponds plus 3 herbivore fishes per square meter.For research operation, some municipal wastewater were pumped about 0.025-cms flow rate from Phetchaburi collected pond through 18.5-km HPDE pipe with separating receivers: firstly, to small grass and aquatic planted wetlands; secondly, to small constructed wetlands; thirdly, to the planted mangrove forest; and finally to the 5-consecutive ponds in descending order of 20 cm by beginning the depth of 2.6 m at the first pond (sedimentation pond) till 1.8 m at the last pond, In basic principles, an influent has to flow continuously at height of one-third depth below surface of oxidation pond on hydraulic retention time (HRT), then flowing over weir crest about 5 cm. The effluent of each oxidation pond was monthly sampled for analyzing the water quality in order to estimate the efficiency of wastewater treatment. In the same procedures, the effluent from small wetlands as grown by aquatic plants as well as zero discharge had to collect for water quality analysis. The results found the wastewater treatment efficiency above 60 percentages for COD, BOD, and TSS. The usable life of plants for maximum wastewater treatment efficiency were specified at 90 days and 45 days for aquatic plants (Typha angustifolia Linn. and Cyperus corymbosus Rottb.), respectively. It was noticed that small wetland and oxidation pond were suitable for community wastewater treatment and gained benefits from the wastewater treatment system.
This research aimed to examine the environmental factors determining the rates of evaporation, a natural phenomenon contributing to the treatment of wastewater of 5-consecutive oxidation ponds of the King’s Royally Initiated Laem Phak Bia Environmental Research and Development Project. Data collected from the 17th of April to 30th of May 2019 by US Class A Evaporation Pan revealed that the sedimentation pond (Pond 1) has the highest rate, 7.22 mm d-1, the oxidation pond 1 (Pond 2), 5.70 mm d-1, the oxidation pond 3 (Pond 4), 5.56 mm d-1, the stabilization pond (Pond 5), mm d-1, the reference pond at 5.07 mm d-1 and the oxidation pond 2 (Pond 3), 3.59 mm d-1. Concluding the evaporation in domestic wastewater treatment plants is characterized by 1) heat generated from short and long wave radiation emitted by earth and the sun, 2) local wind profiles of the area affected the height differences of the roughness length, and 3) heat generated by the respiration and digestion process of microbial activities and other grey body contaminants. Presenting the day and night variations made for the analysis, the day evaporation was significantly higher resulted by the net radiation were accountable. Wind profile generated from the measurement of speeds and directions at two different sites at 3 and 10 m has explained for the roughness length heights over each pond as lower roughness height have cause the increased in the rates of evaporation in Pond 4 and 5 however, these process were also suppressed by high ionic bonding molecules effected suggested by the high TDS and EC values. The vertical temperature profile has conveyed the movement in the heat flux that dominated an upward flux movement in Pond 1. This is the exothermic reaction from the digestion process have suggested that extra heat has been added.
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