title: [Comparison of algal removal efficiencies in different ecological treatment systems and their combinations].
abstract: The algal removal efficiencies and their trends of 8 experimental ecological treatment systems, which belonged to 5 groups, were studied under different hydraulic loading rates (HLR). The algal removal efficiencies were compared according to the seasonal changes under the optimum HLR. Gravel-bed horizontal-flow wetland, down-flow wetland, up-flow wetland, aerobic ponds or facultative ponds combined these systems. The results show that the best HLR is 0.8m3/(m2 x d) in all the experimental systems. The systems including aerobic pond and down-flow wetland show a stronger resistance to hydraulic shock loading, as well as horizontal-flow wetland. The algal removal rates of all the systems peaked to over 94% in summer and bottomed in winter that varied from 34% to 90%. It was the combined form that determined the removal efficiency of the ecological treatment systems. The combination system of down-flow and up-flow wetland present the highest capacity of algal removal efficiency and lower seasonal fluctuation, while the gravel-bed horizontal-flow wetland system present the lowest efficiency and higher seasonal fluctuation.
authors: State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China.
authors: Zhen-bin
authors: ZB
authors: Wu
authors: Xiao-hui
authors: XH
authors: Wu
authors: Gui-Ping
authors: GP
authors: Fu
authors: Shui-ping
authors: SP
authors: Cheng
authors: Feng
authors: F
authors: He
authors: Ping
authors: P
authors: Deng