TY - JOUR
TI - Isothermal adsorption characteristics of bioretention media for fecal Escherichia coli
AU - Mei Ying
AU - Zhou Hang
AU - Zhu Xiao-Han
AU - Zhang Peng
AU - Li Xiao-Fei
AU - Zuo Yi-Ming
AU - Wang Xiu-Mei
AU - Bao Jun-Jiang
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2020
VL - 24
IS - 4
SP - 2427
EP - 2436
PT - Article
AB - Rainfall runoff contains a huge number of pathogenic bacteria that seriously  deteriorate water quality. Bioretention is an effective approach to removal  of pathogenic bacteria from rainwater. This study uses sandy soil, fly ash,  slag, sandy soil+5% fly ash, and sandy soil+5% slag as media to evaluate the  adsorption of fecal Escherichia coli. The mechanisms of the five media  conform to the Langmuir's isotherm adsorption equation, and a  pseudo-first-order kinetic model is adopted to reveal the absorption  kinetics.