Application of Polymer Media to the Site for Treatment of Pollutants in Rainfall Effluent of Urban District

Abstract:

With the acceleration of urbanization, impervious surface spreads due to increase of rainfall effluent; consequently, plenty of pollutants occur instantaneously, and severity of a problem caused by being worse of the river and water system is coming to the forefront. Nation Water Quality Inventory reported that 30% of the cause of water quality getting worse is caused by non-point pollutants, and 64% of the cause of polluted water quality of the lake around North Carolina is resulted from non-point pollutants of urban area. This study developed a system that treats and removes pollutants occurring in an impervious area of the urban district by using polymer media. Polymer media, made from polypropylene materials, has float ability and an irregular form. Also this study showed that polymer media has an excellent filtering function of pollutants due to porosity on the surface, and the increase of specific surface area, so that it has an excellent function to remove suspended solids (SS), organic materials and nutritive salts in effluent water on the road side. Treatment efficiency of pollutants in an impervious area of the urban district through application of polymer media to the site is 92.1% and average EMC of suspended solids (SS) is 19.74 mg/L. In addition, treatment efficiency of CODcr is 82.3%, and the efficiency of TN and TP is 50.4% and 73.9%, respectively.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 658)
• Pages: 324-327
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.658.324
• Online since: July 2010
• Authors: Sang Leen Yun, Sung Won Kang, Seog Ku Kim, Jae Hwan Ahn, Hye Cheol Oh
• Keywords: Non-Point Pollutants, Polymer Media, Polypropylene Materials

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