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  • Titel: The use of expanded clay aggregate for the pretreatment of surface waters on the example of a tributary of Lake Klasztorne Górne in Strzelce Krajeńskie
  • Beteiligte: Łopata, Michał; Czerniejewski, Przemysław; Wiśniewski, Grzegorz; Czerniawski, Robert; Drozdowski, Jakub
  • Erschienen: MDPI AG, 2017
  • Erschienen in: Limnological Review
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1515/limre-2017-0001
  • ISSN: 2300-7575
  • Schlagwörter: Water Science and Technology ; Ecology ; Aquatic Science ; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The paper presents a proposal for the treatment of river water based on expanded clay (ceramsite). It is a lightweight mineral aggregate containing components relative to phosphorus adsorption (calcium, iron, manganese, aluminum). A pilot plant on a fractional technical scale was built on a nutrient rich (phosphorus up to 0.4 mg dm<jats:sup>−3</jats:sup>, nitrogen up to 10.0 mg dm<jats:sup>−3</jats:sup>), small (mean annual flow about 0.04 m<jats:sup>3</jats:sup> s<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup>), natural watercourse (Młynówka River, a tributary of the Otok Channel, Noteć basin, the municipality of Strzelce Krajeńskie). The monitoring included quantitative and qualitative measurements of the water stream in 2014-2015. On the basis of the examinations, the calculated effectiveness of ceramsite filters in removing major contaminants from water was: for total nitrogen 5-6%, phosphorus 12-16%, and for suspensions 17-29%. The effectiveness of the treatment is highly influenced by hydraulic load, so this type application on a full-scale should occupy a sufficiently large volume. Taking into account simplicity of performance, ease of operation and low cost of construction and maintenance, such pretreatment plants based on expanded clay would seem to be a promising tool for the protection of surface waters in catchments of small rivers and streams.</jats:p>
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