The banana tree circle as a nature-based solution for sustainable greywater management: A new design model.
ecological sanitation
evapotranspiration system
low-cost solution
permaculture
sustainable sanitation
wastewater reuse
Journal
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
ISSN: 0273-1223
Titre abrégé: Water Sci Technol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9879497
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
May 2024
May 2024
Historique:
received:
22
09
2023
accepted:
17
04
2024
medline:
15
5
2024
pubmed:
15
5
2024
entrez:
15
5
2024
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The banana tree circle (BTC) is a low-cost system for local greywater management, using a natural treatment and disposal process, providing additional resource recovery benefits. However, there are no standard design criteria for BTC that would allow for quality control of its efficiency and sustainability, and little is currently known about the full-scale performance of BTC. Based on the scoping literature review of 31 documents in the scientific database and eight documents from grey literature, a standard design model was proposed for the BTC technology based on the concept of water balance, greywater flows, rain, infiltration, and evapotranspiration. The first two steps of the BTC design were determining the areas required for infiltration and evapotranspiration. A cylindrical form trench, the soil percolation rate, and the hydraulic loading rate were considered for the infiltration area. The banana trees' evapotranspiration rate was taken into consideration for the evapotranspiration area. The proposed model was applied in a case study where we used a trench with 0.8 m depth and 1.5 m diameter. This study proposes a standard design criterion for the BTC based on environmental factors, and the scoping of the literature provides the basis for future studies to evaluate its environmental sustainability.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38747947
pii: wst_2024_141
doi: 10.2166/wst.2024.141
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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Organisme : Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
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© 2024 The Authors This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0), which permits copying, adaptation and redistribution, provided the original work is properly cited (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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The authors declare there is no conflict.
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