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Yoko Fujikawa1, Masataka Sugahara, Tatsuhide Hamasaki
1Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, Osaka, Japan. fujikawa@rri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
A rapid infiltration (RI) system using granulated materials was developed for wastewater and river water treatment. Granules were processed by optimized procedures from soil and waste materials with high sorption of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter (DOM) and phosphorus. Granule performance was examined by laboratory column and pilot-scale tests. During the first year of the pilot test, removal of phosphorus was removed from livestock-farm effluent at the hydraulic loading rate of 2 m/day was 50-70% and that of refractory DOM was 10-30%.
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