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Metals: Occurrence, Treatment Efficiency and Accumulation Under Varying Flows

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Ecotechnologies for the Treatment of Variable Stormwater and Wastewater Flows

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Abstract

Metals were the first priority pollutants to be widely investigated in stormwater. In solid phase, they are often attached to very fine particles. The dissolved fraction creates considerable environmental problems as it is the most bioavailable fraction. Hence, removal of both fine and dissolved particles plays a major role in the treatment of polluted runoff. Ecotechnologies specifically designed to remove metals should be able to address different treatment mechanisms. However, the exhaustion of sorption capacity reduces the lifespan of treatment facilities. Additionally, metal concentrations fluctuate extremely—spatially, seasonally and over time—which poses another challenge for further increasing removal efficiencies. While soil- or sand-based systems should be designed in a way that the filter material can be exchanged, newer developments such as Floating Treatment Wetlands show promising removal capacities as the installations bind metals in sludge sediments, which can be removed from time to time. The different treatment mechanisms, aforementioned developments and techniques as well as their removal capacities will be discussed in this chapter.

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  1. Urban Water Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

    Godecke-Tobias Blecken, Heléne Österlund & Maria Viklander

  2. Stormwater Research Group, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia

    Katharina Tondera

  3. Institute of Environmental Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Katharina Tondera

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  2. Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Urban Water Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

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  3. Department of Energy Systems and Environment, GEPEA, UMR CNRS 6144, Institut Mines Telecom Atlantique, Nantes cedex 3, France

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Blecken, GT., Tondera, K., Österlund, H., Viklander, M. (2018). Metals: Occurrence, Treatment Efficiency and Accumulation Under Varying Flows. In: Tondera, K., Blecken, GT., Chazarenc, F., Tanner, C. (eds) Ecotechnologies for the Treatment of Variable Stormwater and Wastewater Flows. SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70013-7_5

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