Performance of a pilot-scale aquaponics system using hydroponics and immobilized biofilm treatment for water quality control

• Main Authors: Li, Chunjie, Zhang, Boyu, Luo, Pengxuan, Shi, Hongtao, Li, Linfang, Gao, Yueshu, Lee, Chew Tin, Zhang, Zhenjia, Wu, Wei Min
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 2020
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/88563/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.10.170
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Aquaponics is considered as a promising approach to mass produce both fish meat and vegetable at high rates without discharge pollutants. A novel aquaponics system is proposed to control water quality and enhance nutrition efficiency with high rate immobilized biofilm units, including mass-bio syste...