Project Overview
Constructed Wetlands plus FILTER established at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Main Campus, Islamabad (Pakistan)
Ecosystem Services
Provisioning
- Provisioning Services are ecosystem services that describe the material or energy outputs from ecosystems. They include food, water and other resources.
Regulating
- Regulating Services are the services that ecosystems provide by acting as regulators eg. regulating the quality of air and soil or by providing flood and disease control.
- Local climate and air quality: Trees provide shade whilst forests influence rainfall and water availability both locally and regionally. Trees or other plants also play an important role in regulating air quality by removing pollutants from the atmosphere.
- Waste-water treatment: Ecosystems such as wetlands filter both human and animal waste and act as a natural buffer to the surrounding environment. Through the biological activity of microorganisms in the soil, most waste is broken down. Thereby pathogens (disease causing microbes) are eliminated, and the level of nutrients and pollution is reduced.
Habitat / Supporting
- Ecosystem services "that are necessary for the production of all other ecosystem services". These include services such as nutrient recycling, primary production and soil formation.
Cultural
- Cultural Services corresponds nonmaterial benefits people obtain from ecosystems through spiritual enrichment, cognitive development, reflection, recreation, and aesthetic experiences.
Major Issues
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No issues provided.
EH Engineering Solutions
Hydrological parameters like rainfall and evapotranspiration are
Hydrological parameters like rainfall and evapotranspiration are considered to be the most important factors that controls the physical, chemical and microbial characteristics of the system. Furthermore the water movement in the whole system is strongly affected by the interaction with those ydrological parameters which may disturb the treatment process in the system. * Assessment of water balance for characterizing the behaviour of the system. * Impact of hydro-meteorological parameters on the water quality of wastewater treatment systems.
* Monitoring the performance efficiency of constructed
* Monitoring the performance efficiency of constructed wetland by various physicochemical and nutrient parameters. * Analyzing relative efficiency of heavy metals uptake by water, sediments, and plants. * Nutrient Removal Analysis by emergent, submerged & floating plants.
*Comparative characterization of microbes of surface and
*Comparative characterization of microbes of surface and sediments of wetlands. * Total biomass estimation of predominant macrophytes species. * Isolation and identification of dominant microbial communities within constructed wetland. * Phylogenetic analysis of microbes through 16s RNA gene sequencing * Identification and quantification of helminths eggs by using HEAD (Helminths Egg Automatic Detector)
Project Activities
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* Physcio-chemical analysis and microbial analysis of treatment system
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* Comparative study of nutrient removal between lab and pilot scale treatment system
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* Measuring uptake efficiency of plants
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* Isolation and identification of dominant microbial communities within constructed wetland
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* Phylogenetic analysis of microbes through 16s RNA gene sequencing
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* Identification and quantification of helminths eggs by using HEAD (Helminths Egg Automatic Detector)
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* Analyzing relative efficiency of heavy metals uptake by water, sediments, and plants
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* Modeling and simulation of constructed wetland
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* Cost benefit analysis of constructed wetlands
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* Comparative evaluation of treated water of Membrane Bio Reactor (MBR) plant and phytoremediation plant
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* Comparative characterization of microbes of surface and sediments of wetlands and activated sludge of MBR system
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* Total biomass estimation of predominant macrophytes species
Expected Outcomes
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