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The effect of different surface materials on runoff quality in permeable pavement systems

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To investigate the effect of different permeable pavement surface materials on the removal of pollutants from urban storm-runoff, six commonly surface materials (porous asphalt, porous concrete, cement brick, ceramic brick, sand base brick, and shale brick) were selected in this study and the research was carried out by column experiments. Except the concentrations of total suspended solids (TSS), chemical oxygen demand (COD), ammonia nitrogen (NH4-N), nitrate nitrogen (NO3-N), total nitrogen (TN), and total phosphorus (TP) in the influent and effluent that were measured, the removal mechanism of pollutants was discussed further. The results indicate that the surface materials influence the removal efficiency of pollutants greatly and have different effects on certain pollutant. Furthermore, the physical interception and adsorption would be the main mechanism for the removal of pollutants from runoff. For example, for all surface materials, the average removal efficiency of TSS is nearly about 90.0% because of physical interception. Due to the amount of iron oxide, the removal efficiency of COD, NO3-N, and TN of shale brick was 88.2, 35.1, and 17.5%, respectively. NH4-N and TN can be easily removed by porous asphalt due to the high content of organic matter. By lacking of useful adsorption sites, all the surface materials had little effect on the removal of TP from runoff. This research could offer useful guidelines for the better design of permeable pavement system and promote the insight into the removal mechanism of pollutants in permeable pavement system.

Different types of materials for the different types of pollutants in the runoff purification capacity were significantly different, overall, shale brick and porous asphalt Shale bricks and porous asphalt have a better purification effect according to the six kinds of materials

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This work was supported by Beijing outstanding talent project for excellent youth team (2015000026833T0000), Beijing Advanced Innovation Center of Urban Design for Future Cities: Sponge City Development and Water Quantity & Quality Risk Control (UDC2016040100), and Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51678025).

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    Haiyan Li, Zhifei Li, Xiaoran Zhang, Zhuorong Li, Dongqing Liu, Tanghu Li & Ziyang Zhang

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Li, H., Li, Z., Zhang, X. et al. The effect of different surface materials on runoff quality in permeable pavement systems. Environ Sci Pollut Res 24, 21103–21110 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-9750-6

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