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Freshwater macrophytes for energy and wastewater treatment

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Date Issued:
1979
Title: Freshwater macrophytes for energy and wastewater treatment.
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Name(s): Ryther, John H.
DeBusk, T. A.
Hanisak, M. Dennis
Williams, Lavergne D.
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Date Issued: 1979
Publisher: American Water Resources Association.
Place of Publication: Minneapolis
Physical Form: pdf
Extent: 22 p.
Language(s): English
Identifier: FA00007077 (IID)
Note(s): Freshwater weed crops are capable of simultaneously providing advanced treatment (nutrient removal) of wastewater passed through them and producing biomass that may be converted to fuel by anaerobic digestion. Performance of both functions depends upon the rate of primary organic production of the plant species in question. Annual yields of the floating species Lemna minor (duckweed) and Eichhornia crassipes (water hyacinth) and of the submerged species Hydrilla verticillata were determined in central Florida. Yields of duckweed and Hydrilla, 13.5 and 15.3 m tons/ha.year respectively, are comparable to many temperate terrestrial food and grass crops. The yield of water hyacinths, 88.3 m tons/ha.year, is among the highest documented for any plant species on earth.
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This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available and may be cited as: Ryther, J. H., DeBusk, T. A., Hanisak, M. D., & Williams, L. D. (1978). Freshwater macrophytes for energy and wastewater treatment. In P. E. Greeson, J. R. Clark, & J. E. Clark (Eds.), Wetland functions and values: The state of our understanding: proceedings of the National Symposium on Wetlands held in Disneyworld Village, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 7-10, 1978. Minneapolis: American Water Resources Association.
Subject(s): Sewage--Purification
Plant biomass
Lemna minor
Water hyacinth
Hydrilla
Biomass energy
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