Floating Treatment Wetlands
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 353
Special Issue Editor
Interests: constructed wetlands; nutrient cycling; water treatment; agrichemicals
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Managing water quality within surface waters around the world is a critical need, for the protection of both human and environmental health. Harmful algal blooms and impaired water quality are major concerns and require investment of resources (captial, land, personnel) to manage. Floating treatment wetlands are a type of constructed wetland designed to be installed upon bodies of water, facilitating water treatment without the need for extensive sitework. Floating treatment wetlands have been used to treat water from urban, agricultural, and industrial sources.
The aim of this Special Issue is to present state-of-the-art research and applications of floating treatment wetlands for water treatment. As floating treatment wetlands are a relatively new technology, many research questions remain that need to be definitively addressed. These include, but are not limited to: scaffold design (intensive vs. extensive), flow rate, plant selection, the role of microbial communities, active vs. passive management, percent coverage, scalability (laboratory, pilot- and full scale), economics of treatment, modeling contaminant cycling, and more.
We encourage submission of papers that address these and related issues, to advance the current state of knowledge driving the implementation of floating treatment wetlands for water treatment.
Dr. Sarah A. White
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Floating treatment wetland
- Water quality
- Nutrient mitigation
- Plant harvest
- Scalability
- Contaminant cycling
- Microbial community analysis
