eprintid: 18487 rev_number: 2 eprint_status: archive userid: 1 dir: disk0/00/01/84/87 datestamp: 2024-06-04 14:10:44 lastmod: 2024-06-04 14:10:44 status_changed: 2024-06-04 14:03:24 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Osman, M. creators_name: Takaijudin, H. creators_name: Massoudieh, A. creators_name: Goh, H.W. title: Effects of Vegetation and Saturated Zone in Cascaded Bioretention on Enhancing Nutrient Removal ispublished: pub keywords: Agricultural pollution; Agricultural runoff; Ammonia; Groundwater flow; Nitrogen removal; Nutrients; Phosphorus; Wastewater treatment, Bioretention; Cascaded bioretention; Management practises; Nutrient removal; Removal mechanism; Runoff quality; Saturated zone; Treatment; Vegetation zone; Waters managements, Vegetation note: cited By 3 abstract: Bioretention is a water management practice that is increasingly being applied for runoff quality control. Although previous Bioretention studies have used some techniques to improve nutrient removal, some nutrients still leach out. Therefore, this study used Cascaded Bioretention (CB) by connecting three Bioretention columns in series. The planted Bioretention Column was retrofitted by adding a subsurface drainage module (SDM) below the gravel layer to create a dual saturated zone. This study aimed to investigate the effect of the number of treatments, vegetation, and modified saturated zone on enhancing nutrient removal from agricultural runoff and to understand nutrient removal mechanisms. The removal efficiencies of NH3-N, NO3-N, NO2-N, and TN improved to 89.8, 49.7, 49.2, and 53.4, respectively. The only negative removal was ON, which significantly decreased by incorporating vegetation and a modified saturated zone. Increasing the number of treatments significantly enhanced TN and ON while maintaining stable removal for other nitrogen compounds. However, phosphorus was less sensitive to increasing the number of treatments. Nitrogen removal could be enhanced by different removal processes such as nitrification, denitrification, mineralization, assimilation by plant uptake, and Anammox. However, phosphorus removal was less complicated, as adsorption and infiltration are likely to be the main removal mechanisms. © 2023 Korean Society of Environmental Engineers. date: 2023 official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85164186615&doi=10.4491%2feer.2022.154&partnerID=40&md5=8ad6e95db0adbc35753bb688349261e8 id_number: 10.4491/eer.2022.154 full_text_status: none publication: Environmental Engineering Research volume: 28 number: 3 refereed: TRUE citation: Osman, M. and Takaijudin, H. and Massoudieh, A. and Goh, H.W. (2023) Effects of Vegetation and Saturated Zone in Cascaded Bioretention on Enhancing Nutrient Removal. Environmental Engineering Research, 28 (3).