Environmental Science and Pollution Research

, Volume 23, Issue 16, pp 16383–16395 | Cite as

Evaluation of an integrated constructed wetland to manage pig manure under Mediterranean climate

  • Julie Nehmtow
  • Jacques Rabier
  • Raphaël Giguel
  • Bruno Coulomb
  • Anne Marie Farnet
  • Claude Perissol
  • Arnaud Alary
  • Isabelle Laffont-Schwob
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Abstract

Pig manure is a complex mixture with excessive nutrients such as ammonium, microbial pathogens and may contain contaminants such as antibiotics. Conventional pig manure management practices caused water contamination. Sludge treatment wetland has been evaluated to determine its potential use under Mediterranean climate aiming at a parsimonious use of water and preventing water contamination, two major steps to preserve water resources in the Mediterranean Basin. Preliminary NH4-N degradation was tested using aeration process and/or addition of commercial bacterial products. Aeration alone appeared to be sufficient to ensure nitrogen transformation of the pig manure at lab small-scale (10 L) and medium-scale (300 L). Selected plant species e.g., Carex hispida for use in the integrated constructed wetland tolerated the nitrogen content after aeration enabling their use in a treatment vertical bed.

Keywords

Pig manure Water preservation Sustainable solution Mediterranean climate Constructed wetland Ammonium Aeration 
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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by a CIFRE grant (no. 2011/1241) for Julie Nehmtow PhD, from the Association Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie and the company BlueSET. Many thanks to Carine Demelas and to Laurent Vassalo for their help in chemical analyses, to Virgile Calvert for his help in microbiological analyses, to Guillaume Vanot (Lyveo company) for his help about bacteria inocula, to Anna Guittonny-Philippe for her help in plant sampling and her valuable advices and to Gerald Moretti (pork producer) who provided pig manure and a great fieldwork for this study. We also thank Michael Paul for revising the English of this text.

Supplementary material

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Table 1 Evolution of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total solids (TS) average concentrations during small-scale experiment (0, 7, 14 and 21 days of aeration) (DOCX 69 kb)
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Table 2 Evolution of nitrite (NO2 −), nitrate (NO3 −), ammonium (NH4 +) and total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN) average concentrations during medium-scale experiment (0, 14, 24 and 34 days of aeration) (DOCX 34 kb)

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Julie Nehmtow
    • 1
    • 2
  • Jacques Rabier
    • 1
  • Raphaël Giguel
    • 2
  • Bruno Coulomb
    • 3
  • Anne Marie Farnet
    • 1
  • Claude Perissol
    • 1
  • Arnaud Alary
    • 2
  • Isabelle Laffont-Schwob
    • 1
  1. 1.Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE)Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, Avignon UniversitéMarseille cedex 03France
  2. 2.BlueSETIsle sur la SorgueFrance
  3. 3.Laboratoire de Chimie de l’EnvironnementAix Marseille Université, CNRS, UMR7376Marseille Cedex 3France

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