Abstract

Two pilot-scale fractured aquifer models (FAMs) consisting of horizontal limestone slabs were employed to investigate the removal of biocolloids suspended in reclaimed wastewater. To better understand the behavior of real fractured aquifers, theseFAMsintentionallywerenot "clean".Thefracture apertures were randomly spread with soil deposits, and both FAMs were preflooded with reclaimed wastewater to simulate the field conditions of the Nardo` fractured aquifer in the Salento area, Italy, where fractures are not clean due to artificial groundwaterrecharge. One of the FAMs was injected with secondary effluent from a wastewater treatment plant collected prior to the chlorination step and the other with exactly the same effluent, which was further treated in a commercial membrane reactor. Consequently, the organic and pathogen concentrations were considerably higher in the secondary effluent than in the membrane reactor effluent. Injected wastewater wascontinuously recirculated. Pathogen removal was greater for the secondary wastewater than the cleaner membrane reactor effluent. A simple mathematical model was developed to describe fracture clogging. The results suggest that the hydraulic conductivity of FAMs can be significantly degraded due toretention of viable and inactivated biocolloids suspended in reclaimed wastewater.

Autore Pugliese

• Masciopinto Costantino

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• CHRYSIKOPOULOS C.; MASCIOPINTO C.; LA MANTIA R.; MANARIOTIS I.

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Environmental science & technology

Anno di pubblicazione

2010

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0013-936X

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