• LAKE POLLUTION PREVENTION AND RESTORATION USING ELECTROFLOTATION AND FILTRATION

    Author(s):
    Lawrence K Wang (see profile) , Mu-Hao Sung Wang
    Editor(s):
    Yuriy I. Pankivskyi
    Date:
    2023
    Group(s):
    Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
    Subject(s):
    Lakes--Management, Pollution prevention, Lake restoration, Flotation, Electrocoagulation, Filters and filtration, Massachusetts--Berkshire County, Septic tanks, Eutrophication, Plant nutrients
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    memoir, lenox institute of water technology, electroflotation, Stockbridge Bowl, Massachusetts, Septic tank effluent treatment, lake water treatment, filtration
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/2e3m-5568
    Abstract:
    This publication identifies lake eutrophication, its biochemical process, causes, effects, prevention, lake restoration, available technologies (electroflotation, dissolved air flotation and filtration), etc. Two continuous pilot plant studies were conducted: (a) treatment of septic tank effluent along lake shoreline by electroflotation-filtration (EFF) and drainfield for lake pollution prevention; and (b) treatment of Stockbridge Bowl water by EFF for lake restoration. The new technologies were jointly developed by the Lenox Institute of Water Technology (LIWT) and Krofta Engineering Corporation (KEC). For lake pollution prevention, a septic tank effluent was successfully treated to meet the NPDES effluent discharge permit requirements. For lake restoration, Stockbridge Bowl water was successfully treated in terms of high % removal of phosphate-P (100%), TSS (100%), COD (71%), color (95%), turbidity (90%), aluminum (58%), and algae or particle counts (99.7%), etc. The authors also discuss other lake pollution prevention and restoration methodologies: such as property awareness, on-site septic effluent clarification, in-lake restoration (aeration, chemical precipitation, etc.), barge mounted flotation treatment plants, algae harvesting for energy production, and lake acid rain reversal etc. Although only the LIWT-KEC technologies were used for the feasibility studies, another manufacturers' equivalent process equipment is expected to produce similar performance data, if their process equipment is optimized. For lake applications, the equipment foot-print must be small and the overall costs must be affordable. Continuous pilot plant demonstration of any manufacturer's process equipment is highly recommended. This publication is one of many professional memoirs being written by the authors.
    Notes:
    Note: Stockbridge Bowl, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.17613/2e3m-5568
    Publisher:
    Lenox Institute Press, MA, USA.
    Pub. Date:
    February 2023
    Book Title:
    \"Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)\"
    Author/Editor:
    Wang, LK, Wang, MHS, and Pankivskyi, YI (editors)
    Chapter:
    2023(2A)
    Page Range:
    1 - 55
    ISBN:
    978-0-9890870-3-2
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 months ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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