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Nitrogen removal from a recirculating aquaculture system using a pumice bottom substrate nitrification-denitrification tank
- Source :
- Ecological Engineering. 95:357-363
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- This research investigated the efficiency of a pumice stone biofilter tank for nitrogen removal from a recirculating aquaculture system. The pumice bottom substrate nitrification-denitrification tank was a glass tank packed with a 5 cm depth of pumice stone (approximately 3 mm in diameter) at the bottom. It was found that the pumice stone could perform as a nitrification biofilter under aerobic conditions. When applying methanol as the external carbon source at a COD:N ratio of 5:1 and then covering the tank with a plastic sheet to reduce gas exchange, pumice stone could remove nitrate through denitrification. Thereafter, nitrification and denitrification treatments using the pumice tank were applied to a 100 L moderate density (10 kg m −3 ) recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) under laboratory conditions. The RAS consisted of a 100 L tilapia culture tank connected to a 100 L pumice tank packed with a 5 cm layer of pumice stone. It was found that the nitrification treatment performed by the pumice tank could control ammonia and nitrite concentrations within the required safety range throughout the 121-day culture period. When nitrate accumulated to approximately 50 mg-N L −1 in water, water recirculation was paused, after which batch denitrification treatment was performed by adding methanol at COD:N of 5:1 in the pumice tank. With nitrification-denitrification treatment, ammonia and nitrite concentrations were below 1 mg-N L −1 and nitrate was kept below 50 mg-N L −1 while nitrate in the control tank was as high as 352.47 ± 9.67 mg-N L −1 . Moreover, the pumice bottom substrate tank with methanol supplement had no negative effect on growth and survival of fish in the recirculating system.
- Subjects :
- Environmental Engineering
Denitrification
Environmental engineering
chemistry.chemical_element
Recirculating aquaculture system
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Pulp and paper industry
01 natural sciences
Nitrogen
chemistry.chemical_compound
chemistry
Nitrate
Pumice
Biofilter
040102 fisheries
0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
Substrate (aquarium)
Nitrification
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09258574
- Volume :
- 95
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Ecological Engineering
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........537fce331c258548a31a2b0af43027de