Comparison of three flocculants for heavy cyanobacterial bloom mitigation and subsequent environmental impact

Kaixuan LIU; Lei JIANG; Jinsheng YANG; Shuzhan MA; Kaining CHEN; Yufeng ZHANG; Xiaoli SHI

doi:10.1007/s00343-022-1351-7

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Comparison of three flocculants for heavy cyanobacterial bloom mitigation and subsequent environmental impact

Special Section: Cyanobacterial blooms in China: ecology, toxicity, and treatment | Updated：2023-05-19

- Comparison of three flocculants for heavy cyanobacterial bloom mitigation and subsequent environmental impact
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 40, Issue 5, Pages: 1764-1773(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 211816, China
  2.State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China
  3.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
  4.Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Regional Modern Agriculture & Environmental Protection, Huaiyin Normal University, Huaiyin, 223001, China
- Author bio：
  
  Yufeng ZHANG,zhangyuf99@126.com
  Xiaoli SHI,xlshi@niglas.ac.cn
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s00343-022-1351-7
  CLC：
- Received：25 October 2021，
  
  Accepted：28 January 2022，
  
  Online First：12 May 2022，
  
  Published：2022-09
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Kaixuan LIU, Lei JIANG, Jinsheng YANG, et al. Comparison of three flocculants for heavy cyanobacterial bloom mitigation and subsequent environmental impact[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2022, 40(5): 1764-1773.
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Kaixuan LIU, Lei JIANG, Jinsheng YANG, et al. Comparison of three flocculants for heavy cyanobacterial bloom mitigation and subsequent environmental impact[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2022, 40(5): 1764-1773. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-022-1351-7.

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Abstract

Cyanobacteria can accumulate as a heavy biomass on the leeward side of large eutrophic lakes

posing a potential threat to public health. The mitigating capacity of three flocculants and their potential impacts on the major environmental features of water and sediments was evaluated. Results indicate that polyaluminum chloride (PAC) and ferric chloride (FeCl

) are efficient flocculants that can rapidly mitigate cyanobacterial blooms with chlorophyll-

concentrations higher than 1 500 µg/L within 15 min. In comparison

cationic starch with chitosan could only treat cyanobacterial blooms in chlorophyll-

concentrations of less than 200 µg/L. The addition of FeCl

caused a decline in the pH value

while dissolved oxygen in the water column dropped to 2 mg/L during cationic starch with chitosan treatment for a high cyanobacterial biomass group. Thus

a combination of flocculants and oxygenators should be considered when treating high-concentration cyanobacterial blooms for emergency purposes. Additionally

the cell lysis of cyanobacteria caused by cationic starch with chitosan can result in an increase in total dissolved phosphorus and total dissolved nitrogen. Furthermore

the high accumulation of nutrients in sediments after the settling of cyanobacteria can cause high internal phosphorus pollution. The increase in the total organic carbon of the sediments can threaten lake restoration achieved by planting submerged macrophytes.

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