eprintid: 15095 rev_number: 2 eprint_status: archive userid: 1 dir: disk0/00/01/50/95 datestamp: 2023-11-10 03:29:42 lastmod: 2023-11-10 03:29:42 status_changed: 2023-11-10 01:58:37 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Keng, T.S. creators_name: Samsudin, M.F.R. creators_name: Sufian, S. title: Evaluation of wastewater treatment performance to a field-scale constructed wetland system at clogged condition: A case study of ammonia manufacturing plant ispublished: pub keywords: Ammonia; Deterioration; Effluent treatment; Effluents; Manufacture; Sewage treatment plants; Wastewater treatment; Wetlands, Ammoniacal nitrogen; Ammoniacal nitrogen removal; Coefficient of determination; Constructed wetlands; Inlet concentration; Manufacturing plant; Outlet concentration; Treatment performance, Nitrogen removal, ammonia; nitrogen, ammonia; chemical oxygen demand; constructed wetland; manufacturing; performance assessment; subsurface flow; wastewater treatment, Article; chemical industry; chemical oxygen demand; constructed wetland; effluent; Malaysia; monitoring; pH; priority journal; waste component removal; waste water management, Malaysia note: cited By 7 abstract: Assessment of the treatment performance in the field-scale hybrid constructed wetland (CW) for ammonia manufacturing plant remains limited. After being in operations running on and off since 2014, the hybrid CW which treats effluent from the ammonia manufacturing plant in Peninsular, Malaysia has recently demonstrated the full clogging to the CW. It takes only 8 months to demonstrate a big deterioration of performance in 2019. Though the mechanism of clogging is not clear, which can be partially from inherent design problems or operational issues, nonetheless, it is important to evaluate how this clogging has impacted the effluent treatment performance and the continuous utilization of the CW. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of the treatment performance on the ammoniacal nitrogen and COD removal when the CW is clogged. The result revealed that there is no impact on COD removal, but it has a substantial impact on the ammoniacal nitrogen removal. The ammoniacal nitrogen removal dropped to negative (outlet concentration is higher than inlet concentration) during the clogged period. Another observation is, the low removal rate also coincides with a high COD/N ratio, when the COD/N ratio increased to >2, the ammoniacal nitrogen removal rate dropped substantially, with the coefficient of determination, R2 of 40.5. The root cause for the clogging to develop in a short period of time is unidentified. However, it is still worth noting that COD and ammoniacal nitrogen efficiency did not behave the same at the clogged CW. © 2020 Elsevier B.V. date: 2021 publisher: Elsevier B.V. official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85097093897&doi=10.1016%2fj.scitotenv.2020.143489&partnerID=40&md5=a99bf7dd1f1254cc9d1b1aba40b20aa9 id_number: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143489 full_text_status: none publication: Science of the Total Environment volume: 759 refereed: TRUE issn: 00489697 citation: Keng, T.S. and Samsudin, M.F.R. and Sufian, S. (2021) Evaluation of wastewater treatment performance to a field-scale constructed wetland system at clogged condition: A case study of ammonia manufacturing plant. Science of the Total Environment, 759. ISSN 00489697