Purification Effect of <i>Lolium multiflorum</i> Ecological Floating Beds System in Urban Malodorous River at Low Temperature

An ecological floating beds system was constructed to treat natural urban malodorous river in Changzhou at low temperature. Taking Lolium multiflorum as an example of water plant, the characteristics and contribution of its uptake to total nitrogen (TN), NH4+-N, total phosphorus (TP) and chemical oxygen demand (CODMn) in the system were studied in a period of 80 days. Significant growth of the plant Lolium multiflorum was observed with total biomass ranging from 53 g to 785 g, and the highest growth rates were 8.82 and 9.23 for biomass of above water and under water part, respectively. Different concentrations of TN, NH4+-N, TP and COD were found between in the floating beds and out the floating beds. The highest removal rates of TN, NH4+-N, TP and CODMn using Lolium multiflorum ecological floating beds system were 16.8%, 33.0%,10.8% and 17.8%, respectively. The purification effect of ecological floating beds shows it can be well applied to cleaning natural rivers at low temperatures.