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The research on control of phytoplankton increase and water purification by artificial running water.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 14550544
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Civil and environmental engineering
Research InstitutionOKAYAMA UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

KAWARA Osami  Okayama Univ., Health & Environment Center, Professor, 保健環境センター, 教授 (90093228)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) ONO Yoshiro  Okayama Univ., Environmental Science & Technology, Professor, 環境理工学部, 教授 (50152541)
Project Period (FY) 2002 – 2004
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Keywordsrunning water / phytoplankton / suppression of increase / water purification / vertical mixing / experiment / field observation / 光量子量 / 藻類増殖 / 変動周期 / 光合成 / 流動 / 人工流水 / 砂礫の影響
Research Abstract

In this research, the mechanism of suppressing algae increase by running water and application of this phenomenon to water purification were investigated. The main results obtained areas follows.
Based on the experiment using circular tank, the results show that running water suppresses algae increase. The floating chlorophyll-a concentrations were caught by the sand and gravel covering the tank bottom within 2 days. However, the floating algae concentrations increase again. The transmitted light in river water is greatly influenced by water quality and water depth. The transmitted light at the water depth of 50cm decreases by some tens of percent in comparison with the light intensity at the water surface. The running water causes vertical mixing of algae. This vertical mixing reduces available light intensity for algae photosynthesis. In addition, the algae culture is carried out under fluctuated light. The experimental results show suppressing influence in the algae breeding become greater as the fluctuation period of light become longer within the period from 1.2 to 7.6 seconds.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2004 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2003 Annual Research Report
  • 2002 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (1 results)

All 2005

All Journal Article (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Observations and Numerical Simulations of Water Quality Distributions in Reservoirs (in print)2005

    • Author(s)
      Osami KAWARA, Ryuta YOSHIDA, Yohei KAWAI
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Te Faulty of Environmental Science and Technology 10

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2002-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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