Constructed wetlands, status, progress, and challenges. The need for critical operational reassessment for a cleaner productive ecosystem

LA Nuamah, Y Li, Y Pu, AS Nwankwegu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
The energy-demanding paradigm for biomass consumption during wastewater treatments
threatens cleaner productive ecosystems. The constructed wetlands (CWs) technology has …

Can constructed wetlands be wildlife refuges? A review of their potential biodiversity conservation value

C Zhang, L Wen, Y Wang, C Liu, Y Zhou, G Lei - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The degradation of wetland ecosystems is currently recognized as one of the main threats to
global biodiversity. As a means of compensation, constructed wetlands (CWs), which are …

Chloride-mediated enhancement in heat-induced activation of peroxymonosulfate: new reaction pathways for oxidizing radical production

YY Ahn, J Choi, M Kim, MS Kim, D Lee… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This study is the first to demonstrate the capability of Cl–to markedly accelerate organic
oxidation using thermally activated peroxymonosulfate (PMS) under acidic conditions. The …

Constructed wetlands as hotspots of antibiotic resistance genes and pathogens: Evidence from metagenomic analysis in Chinese rural areas

N Zhang, D Lu, H Sheng, J Xia, P Kan, Z Yao… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
In rural China, many constructed wetlands (CWs) have been developed to treat rural
wastewater sustainably. However, due to the scarce information on those rural CWs, it is …

A novel pilot and full-scale constructed wetland study for glass industry wastewater treatment

A Gholipour, H Zahabi, AI Stefanakis - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Industrial wastewaters represent a serious threat to the environment due to their variable
and complex composition. Though mostly mechanical systems are used for treatment of …

Structure and activity of microbial communities in response to environmental, operational, and design factors in constructed wetlands

M Verduzo Garibay, A Fernández del Castillo… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Constructed wetlands are nature-like engineering systems implemented to treat wastewater
through physical, chemical, and biological processes under controlled environments. In …

Impact analysis of hydraulic loading rate on constructed wetland: insight into the response of bulk substrate and root-associated microbiota

N Zhang, D Lu, P Kan, J Yangyao, Z Yao, DZ Zhu… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Constructed wetland (CW) is an environment-friendly and low-cost technology for nutrients
removal from domestic wastewater. For a well-tuned CW, hydraulic loading rate (HLR) is …

Nitrogen dynamics in wetland systems and its impact on biodiversity

A Yousaf, N Khalid, M Aqeel, A Noman, N Naeem… - Nitrogen, 2021 - mdpi.com
Wetlands are viable sinks for nitrate and have also been identified as a source of nitrous
oxide, a product of two microbially regulated processes: nitrification and denitrification …

Fenton: a systematic review of its application in wastewater treatment

M Pimentel Prates, SM de Oliveira Loures Marcionílio… - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The use of new technologies for the removal of pollutants from wastewater has become
globally necessary due to the complexity and facilities defined by conventional treatments …

Application of basalt fiber in vertical flow constructed wetland for different pollution loads wastewater: Performance, substrate enzyme activity and microorganism …

J Xiao, J Huang, M Huang, M Chen, M Wang - Bioresource Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The cost-effective and environmentally friendly substrates are vital for the design of
constructed wetlands (CWs). This study explored the incorporation of basalt fiber (BF) into …