Recycling Nutrient by Integration of Pond Aquaculture and Aquatic Vegetable Cultivation

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10.2991/aeece-15.2015.86How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Pond aquaculture; aquatic vegetable; wastewater purification; Biolog Eco-plate; Microbial diversity

Abstract

This experiment was designed to assess the recovery of nutrient from aquaculture pond effluent by lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) and cane shoot ( Zizania latifolia) cultivation field based on the pit-testing experiment .The results showed that under retention water management, the recycling rate of cane shoot and lotus root test pit on TN, TP and CODMn in the aquaculture wastewater was increased with the retention time ,in which the difference of TN and TP was significant when the retention time was longer than 24 h. Under surface flow operation, the removal efficiency on NO2--N, NH4+-N, TN, TP and CODMn from pond wastewater were 11.30%~26.27%, 8.30%~26.60%, 1.87%~20.60%, 11.0%~19.70% and 23.00%~30.65% with the influent flow rate of 0.08 m3/h and 0.13 m3/h. The microbial diversity indices of effluent from both the two vegetable test pits were significantly higher than those of influent water under the retention water management and significantly lower than those of influent water under surface flow operation. Comprehensively considering, retention management is more preferable and retention time should be longer than 24 h .The present experiment confirmed that ex-situ treatment of aquaculture wastewater by lotus and water bamboo cultivation field is feasible and effective in recycling nutrients in the aquaculture wastewater and reducing nutrient pollution discharge. The integration of pond aquaculture and aquatic vegetable production are environmentally friendly and more research is needed to provide efficient management strategies during the practical integration practice.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ling Tao
AU  - Jianqiang Zhu
AU  - Gu Li
AU  - Xiaoli Li
PY  - 2015/09
DA  - 2015/09
TI  - Recycling Nutrient by Integration of Pond Aquaculture and Aquatic Vegetable Cultivation
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Energy, Environment and Chemical Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 423
EP  - 429
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aeece-15.2015.86
DO  - 10.2991/aeece-15.2015.86
ID  - Tao2015/09
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