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Role of sewage phosphorus in coastal water bioenergy production

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Title Role of sewage phosphorus in coastal water bioenergy production
 
Creator Manimaran, B
Ramadhas, V
Santhanam, R
 
Description 341-343
A study was
carried out on the quantity and speciation of phosphorus in a sewage
originating from Tuticorin town and discharging the contents in the Fi shing
Harbour area. Four prominent peaks were observed in the distribution of total
phosphorus and during most of the months the concentration remained above 4
mgP/l. The annual mean contribution of total soluble phosphorus (86.73%) to
total phosphorus was higher than that of particulate phosphorus (13.27%). Since
all the chemical species of phosphorus are eventually converted in to
biologically utilisable form, the anticipated increment in energy production
calculated from the stoichiometric composition of plankton [(CH2O)106(NH3)16H3PO4]
was to the tune of 1300 tonne C/yr. Assuming that all the three sewages of
Tuticorin discharge comparable quantity of wastewater, the

anticipated hike in primary
energy synthesis was around 3900 × 107 kcal. Considering three
trophic levels from phytoplankton production to fish production the extra fish
production due to sewage phosphorus was calculated as 132.60 tonne/year.
According to Winberg's transformation, the surplus production of bioenergy due
to be boosted fishery potential was around 132.6×106 kCl/year.
 
Date 2014-01-13T05:07:20Z
2014-01-13T05:07:20Z
2000-12
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/25490
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.29(4) [December 2000]