Review Article
Phytoremediation of Nitrogen as Green Chemistry for Wastewater Treatment System
Table 2
Comparison on the energy consumption of the existing ammoniacal remediation and phytoremediation.
| Technology | Energy usage | Reference |
| Ammonia stripping | 450 MJ/m3 per leachate treated | [12] | Breakpoint chlorination | 17.4 million kwh/yr (electricity cost) | [13] | Biological nitrification | 6.31 million kWh/yr (electricity cost) | [13] | Ion exchange | 126–194 MJ per NH4-N treated | [8] | Phytoremediation | Harvest energy from sunlight | [14] |
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