Method for controlling growth of blue algae in water area by utilizing eucalyptus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11760671-B2
Application number	US-201917416230-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 28, 2019
Priority date	Jan 5, 2019
Publication date	Sep 19, 2023
Grant date	Sep 19, 2023

Abstract

A method for controlling the growth of blue algae in a basin relates to the field of the restoration and protection of the natural ecology on the earth's surface. An ecological water treatment system was constructed for the basin with microorganisms, plants, animals, fillers and the like as main elements by building a novel ecological slope protection at the land-lake ecozone along the banks of the basin and planting eucalyptus in the basin water and/or on the bank of the basin, thereby effectively realizing the efficient nitrogen and phosphorus removal from the basin, controlling the spread of blue algae and improving the environmental water quality.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for controlling growth of blue algae in a basin, comprising planting trees in basin water and/or on banks of the basin; wherein
building an ecological slope protection ( 100 ) in a land-lake ecozone along the banks of the basin, wherein body of the ecological slope protection ( 100 ) extends into the basin water, and has a flexible mattress ( 110 ) laid on the surface thereof; an ecological filter pool ( 120 ) having a pool body is provided below the flexible mattress ( 110 ), and it is isolated from the basin water by sealing the pool body and is contained with a filler layer and a support layer ( 125 ) supporting the filler layer; the basin water is introduced into the ecological filter pool ( 120 ).

2. The method according to claim 1 , characterized in that:
the trees are eucalyptus, and optionally through the roots of trees, pollutants are absorbed or fixed to be removed, thereby inhibiting the growth of blue algae.

3. The method according to claim 2 , characterized in that:
the method further comprises: collecting eucalyptus leaves; delivering eucalyptus leaves or eucalyptus leaf extract into the basin water, wherein the eucalyptus leaf extract is a product after water extraction.

4. The method according to claim 1 , characterized in that:
the basin water is treated by the filler layer to clean up pollutants therein and reduce an eutrophication level of the basin water; and the treated basin water is discharged from the ecological slope protection ( 100 ) via the support layer ( 125 ).

5. The method according to claim 4 , characterized in that,
the filler layer of the ecological filter pool ( 120 ) is laminated by four layers from top to bottom as follows:
a first layer, which is a soil layer ( 121 ) for allowing the growth of aquatic plants, absorbing heavy metals, degrading organics and removing nitrogen and phosphorus;
a second layer, which is an adjustment layer ( 122 ) composed of natural zeolite, limestone and activated carbon for supporting the soil layer ( 121 ),
adsorbing and fixing heavy metals, nitrogen, phosphorus and organics;
a third layer, which is a biological layer ( 123 ) filled with bacteria-loaded activated carbon for adsorbing and fixing heavy metals, degrading organics and removing nitrogen and phosphorus; and
a fourth layer, which is an ecological layer ( 124 ) filled with one or more of waste materials comprising fine sand, gravel, steel slag, cinder, construction waste, and waste gypsum for filtering water and intercepting soil.

6. The method according to claim 5 , characterized in that,
earthworms are stocked in the soil layer ( 121 ), and a stocking density of the earthworms is 8 to 12 g (earthworms)/L.

7. The method according to claim 5 , characterized in that:
the basin water is introduced into the ecological slope protection ( 100 ) through a water distribution pipe ( 130 ) by means of a water pump, and the water distribution pipe ( 130 ) is disposed in the first layer and the soil layer ( 121 ) of the ecological slope protection ( 100 ), and it is made of PVC with 0.1 to 0.5 cm drain holes distributed thereon to allow water penetrating into the ecological slope protection ( 100 ).

8. The method according to claim 7 , characterized in that,
the ecological slope protection ( 100 ) has a modular structure, the body of the ecological filter pool ( 120 ) is made of the water-proof sheets and can be assembled and disposed on a site of water treatment and then be loaded with fillers in order, each body individually constructing one ecological filter pool ( 120 );
each ecological slope protection ( 100 ) may include one or more ecological filter pool(s) ( 120 ), at least two ecological filter pools ( 120 ) or a plurality of ecological filter pools ( 120 ) stacked in layers and columns, the ecological filter pools ( 120 ) on each column are aligned, and adjacent ecological filter pools ( 120 ) on each layer are separated at a predetermined interval.

9. The method according to claim 8 , characterized in that,
for the ecological filter pools ( 120 ) on a same column, the drainage pipe of the ecological filter pool ( 120 ) on an upper layer is connected with the water distribution pipe ( 130 ) of the pool ( 120 ) on a lower layer, to discharge the basin water treated by the ecological filter pool ( 120 ) on the upper layer into the soil layer ( 121 );
the aeration pipe ( 140 ) of the ecological filter pool ( 120 ) on the upper layer is connected with the aeration pipe ( 140 ) of the pool ( 120 ) on the lower layer, to allow air passing through the ecological filter pool ( 120 ) on the upper layer and entering the soil layer ( 121 )
the diameter of the aeration pipe ( 140 ) of the ecological filter pool ( 120 ) on the lower layer is larger than that of the aeration pipe ( 140 ) of the ecological filter pool ( 120 ) on the upper layer.

10. The method according to claim 8 , characterized in that,
a metal wire cage is sheathed on a periphery of each ecological filter pool ( 120 );
compared with the water in a middle of the basin, the water close to the banks of the basin is treated by more layers of the ecological filter pools ( 120 ).

11. The method according to claim 7 , characterized in that:
an aeration pipe ( 140 ), which is a PVC pipe with 0.05 to 0.2 cm air vents distributed thereon, is arranged beside the water distribution pipe ( 130 ) disposed in the soil layer ( 121 ), and connected with an external fan to aerate.

12. The method according to claim 11 , characterized in that: the aeration pipe ( 140 ) and the water distribution pipe ( 130 ) each individually are wrapped by bluestones with geotextile on their own peripheries.

Assignees

• Univ Fudan

Inventors

• Zheng Zheng
• Zhao Wei
• Luo Xingzhang
• He Jian
• Zhang Weizhen
• Xu Li

Classifications

• C02F3/32 Primary

  characterised by the animals or plants used, e.g. algae · CPC title

• C02F3/327 Primary

  characterised by animals and plants · CPC title

• C02F3/02

  Aerobic processes · CPC title

• C02F3/34

  characterised by the microorganisms used · CPC title

• C02F2103/007

  Contaminated open waterways, rivers, lakes or ponds · CPC title