Hydraulic and environmental design of a constructed wetland as a treatment for shrimp aquaculture effluents

Shrimp aquaculture has grown to the extent that pressure on natural ecosystems has greatly increased. The shrimp farms effluents usually discharge their wastes, with high nutrients load, into coastal water bodies without any previous treatment. This work presents a method to design a constructed wet...

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Autores:
Ramírez León, Hermilo
Barrios Piña, Héctor Alfonso
Cuevas Otero, Abraham
Torres Bejarano, Franklin Manuel
Ponce Palafox, Jesús Trinidad
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2016
Institución:
Corporación Universidad de la Costa
Repositorio:
REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/1390
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/11323/1390
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32243-8_36
https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
Palabra clave:
Aquaculture
Environmental design
Numerical methods
Shellfish
Supercomputers
Wetlands
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openAccess
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Summary:Shrimp aquaculture has grown to the extent that pressure on natural ecosystems has greatly increased. The shrimp farms effluents usually discharge their wastes, with high nutrients load, into coastal water bodies without any previous treatment. This work presents a method to design a constructed wetland for handling these effluents. Our method is based on a first order equation model and a hydrodynamic numerical model as the main component for the design process. Numerical results showed consistency with the first order theory, when pollutants concentration were reduced to values accepted by the applicable regulations.