Journal
COMMUNICATIONS IN NONLINEAR SCIENCE AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 622-635Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2007.05.035
Keywords
Emergy as embodied solar energy; Sustainability; Constructed wetland; Wastewater treatment
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Ecological treatment engineering has been widely accepted as an artificially designed work to deal with the deteriorating ecological environment with low energy and resource consumption. To measure the energy and resource consumption and environmental support contained in the constructed wetland as a kind of ecological treatment engineering, emergy as embodied solar energy based assessment is performed and relative emergy-based indices including emergy yield ratio (EYR), emergy load ratio (ELR), emergy sustainability index (ESI), net economic benefit index (Np), and renewable percentage index (Pr), are also modified to evaluate the local sustainability of the constructed wetland in this paper. A case study on Longdao River constructed wetland compared with those of some earlier conventional treatment systems indicate that more local renewable resources and less ecological cost are involved, thus promoting the economic benefit due to less energy and resource consumption and simultaneously lowering the environmental stress of the treatment system on the local areas. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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