Constructedwetland may be suitable where adequate land is available, not at housing estates and IT complexes.
Published by PARITOSH TYAGI
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Dr Ari, you are right. Do you have any publication related to your design?
Published by LALA BEHARI SUKLA, Research Professor , Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar
You are correct Paritosh, constructed wetlands require a lot of land. I have set up 2 in the State of New Mexico. However, since 1973, I have been designing and building algae-based wastewater treatment facilities partly based on the original concept of the late Prof. William J. Oswald. He was one of my mentors and I cut my teeth in this area of technology working with him on 2 facilities in Israel. My design is a modified high rate algae pond type of facility. It requires about 5% of the land area of a constructed wetland. The CAPEX is about 20% of the typical high cost, energy energy consuming type of facility that is built in most Western countries. The OPEX of my type of facility is also about 5% of the typical Western type facility. I have designed my type of facility for a plant which will soon be built and operating in Uttar Pradesh.
Published by Ari Maayan, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder at Clean Environmental Technologies Pvt. Ltd.