Many efforts of investment for treatment facilities such as wastewater treatment plants and sewer systems have limit in order to enhance the quality of lake and river. It resulted in more interests on the management of non-point source pollution. Many...
Many efforts of investment for treatment facilities such as wastewater treatment plants and sewer systems have limit in order to enhance the quality of lake and river. It resulted in more interests on the management of non-point source pollution. Many treatment facilities have been designed and operated including the storm filter and natural penetrating system to the ground.
In this research, verifying on characteristics of runoff in urban areas was conducted in order to refer the results when non-point pollutants removal facilities were designed. And two different systems of lab-scale equipment was used in order to compare the pollutants removal efficiencies of vortex type equipment and ones of inclined plate settler. There were another experiment in order to improve the efficiency of vortex type equipment into which textile balls were input.
In all three site-highway, industrial complex and residental areas, the results revealed that the concentrations of pollutants were higher in initial rainfall just as typical runoff in urban areas and the TSS showed relatively higher concentrations as 23 to 80 mg/L than other pollutants. It means particle materials are target pollutant to remove from initial run-off by non-point pollutants removal facilities.
In case of vortex type equipment, the average removal efficiency of TSS was about 25% under three different inflow conditions and it showed increasing trend as the inflow rate increased.
In case of inclined plate settler, the removal efficiency of TSS was about 35%. There were significant differences compare with vortex type facility, removal efficiencies were decreased as inflow rate increased in contradiction to vortex type. It seemed that the mechanisms between two systems are different, one is settlement by the centrifugal force, the other is by gravity, respectively.
In case of vortex type equipment with textile balls, the removal efficiency of TSS was about 50% highest among three different equipments, it showed increasing trend as the inflow rate increased just as vortex type. It seemed that the collision and adsorption between textile balls and particles attracted enhance of removal efficiency.
In this study, the inclined plate settler showed the potentiality as effective non-point reduction facility and the enhance of removal efficiencies was achieved by adding of textile balls in vortex type equipment. But it needs comprehensive consideration of management, treatment efficiencies of pollutants when large-scale of facilities are applied to the on-site.