Role of Typha (Cattail) and Phragmites austrailes (Reed Plant) in Domestic Wastewater Treatment

Hussain, Ghulam; Al-Zarah, Abdullah I.; Alquwaizan, Abdulaziz S.

doi:10.3923/rjet.2014.25.36

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“…Christwardana and Soetrisnanto [47] reported 50% of COD reduction for treatment of POME, in Indonesia, with water hyacinth. Hussain et al [48] used Typha angustifolia and Phragmites, for treatment of domestic wastewater, in Saudi Arabia; they reported 48.15% COD reduction. Katsenovich et al [35] used Phragmites australis, for treatment of secondary wastewater, in El Salvador; they reported 56% of COD reduction.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Mburu et al [46] used Typha angustifolia and Canna iridiflora, in order to treat municipal wastewater, in Seri Lanka; they reported 65.5% BOD reduction. A study was conducted by Hussain et al [48], in Saudi Arabia, in order to treat domestic wastewater, with Typha angustifolia and Phragmites; they reported 66% BOD reduction. In another study, Klomjek and Nitisoravut [52] reported 74.3% BOD reduction from municipal saline condition treatment, with Typha angustifolia, in Thailand.…”

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Phytoremediation Potential of Vetiver System Technology for Improving the Quality of Palm Oil Mill Effluent

Darajeh

Idris

Truong³

et al. 2014

Advances in Materials Science and Engineering

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Palm oil mill effluent (POME), a pollutant produced by the palm oil industry, was treated by the Vetiver system technology (VST). This technology was applied for the first time to treat POME in order to decrease biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD). In this study, two different concentrations of POME (low and high) were treated with Vetiver plants for 2 weeks. The results showed that Vetiver was able to reduce the BOD up to 90% in low concentration POME and 60% in high concentration POME, while control sets (without plant) only was able to reduce 15% of BOD. The COD reduction was 94% in low concentration POME and 39% in high concentration POME, while control just shows reduction of 12%. Morphologically, maximum root and shoot lengths were 70 cm, the number of tillers and leaves was 344 and 86, and biomass production was 4.1 kg m−2. These results showed that VST was effective in reducing BOD and COD in POME. The treatment in low concentration was superior to the high concentration. Furthermore, biomass of plant can be considered as a promising raw material for biofuel production while high amount of biomass was generated in low concentration of POME.

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confidence: 99%