潮汐-复合流人工湿地系统优化及对抗生素抗性基因的去除效果

抗生素抗性基因随废水排放传播扩散,对环境生物和民众健康构成严重威胁.针对废水中抗性基因的深度去除值得重点关注.在前期研究中发现潮汐流人工湿地能有效去除废水中多种氮素.本研究通过增加隔板和种植植物等方式进一步优化潮汐流人工湿地系统,并考察了工艺优化对抗性基因去除和脱氮功能微生物的影响机制.结果 表明,同时增加隔板和种植植...

Optimization of Tidal-Combined Flow Constructed Wetland System and Its Removal Effect on Antibiotic Resistance Genes

Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) pose a serious threat to environmental biology and public health, along with the discharge and spread of wastewater. The advanced treatment of ARGs in wastewater therefore deserves special attention. In our previous study, we found that tidal flow constructed wetlands can effectively remove multiple ammonia from wastewater. In this study, we further optimized tidal flow constructed wetland systems by adding baffles and cultivating plants; we investigated the influence of process optimization on the removal of ARGs and the influence of functional microorganism distribution on nitrogen removal. The results show that the addition of baffles and plants can effectively improve the removal efficiency of ARGs, with the maximum removal rate of 21 resistance genes, in 7 categories, reaching 83.82%-100.0% with the simultaneous addition of baffles and plants. These removal rates were significantly higher than the increase resulting from a single baffle or plant group. From the comparison of the absolute abundance of ARGs in the substrate and plants, it is clear that the baffles can promote the enrichment of ARGs in the wetland substrate, while uptake by plants is also a way of removing ARGs. Combined with the results of nitrogen-cycle functional gene sequencing, system optimization can increase the diversity and richness of nitrification and denitrification functional microorganisms in the substrate, which is consistent with the higher removal rate of nitrification and total nitrogen in wastewater.