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Título: | Use of wood and cork in biofilters for the simultaneous removal of nitrates and pesticides from groundwater |
Autor: | Escolà Casas, Mònica CSIC ORCID; Guivernau, Miriam; Viñas, Marc; Fernández, Belén; Cáceres, Rafaela; Biel, Carme; Matamoros, Víctor CSIC ORCID | Palabras clave: | Pesticides Assimilable organic carbon Biofilters Denitrification Groundwater Microbial diversity |
Fecha de publicación: | 7-dic-2022 | Editor: | Elsevier | Citación: | Chemosphere 313: 137502 (2023) | Resumen: | About 13% and 7% of monitored groundwater stations in Europe exceed the permitted levels of nitrates (50 mg NO3- L-1) or pesticides (0.1 μg L-1), respectively. Although slow sand filtration can remove nitrates via denitrification when oxygen is limited, it requires an organic carbon source. The present study evaluates the performance of the use of wood pellets and granulated cork as carbon sources in bench-scale biofilters operated under water-saturated and water-unsaturated conditions for more than 400 days. The biofilters were monitored for nitrate (200 mg L-1) and pesticide (mecoprop, diuron, atrazine, and bromacil, each at a concentration of 5 μg L-1) attenuation, as well as for the formation of nitrite and pesticide transformation products. Microbiological characterization of each biofilter was also performed. The water-saturated wood biofilter achieved the best nitrate removal (>99%), while the cork biofilters lost all denitrification power over time (from 38% to no removal). The unsaturated biofilter columns were not effective for removing nitrates (20-30% removal). As for pesticides, all the biofilters achieved high removal rates of mecoprop and diuron (>99% and >75%, respectively). Atrazine removal was better in the wood-pellet biofilters than the cork ones (68-96% vs. 31-38%). Bromacil was only removed in the water-unsaturated cork biofilter (67%). However, a bromacil transformation product was formed there. The water-saturated wood biofilter contained the highest number of denitrifying microorganisms, with Methyloversatilis as the characteristic genus. Microbial composition could explain the high removal of pesticides and nitrates achieved in the wood-pellet biofilter. Overall, the results indicate that wood-pellet biofilters operated under water-saturated conditions are a good solution for treating groundwater contaminated with nitrates and pesticides. | Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.137502 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/286375 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.137502 | ISSN: | 00456535 |
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