• DocumentCode
    3338780
  • Title

    Notice of Retraction
    Tower Earthworm Ecofilter System for Rural Sewage Treatment in China

  • Author

    Xiaoying Yang ; Xingzhang Luo ; Zheng Zheng

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Environ. Sci. & Eng., Fudan Univ., Shanghai, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    10-12 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Notice of Retraction

    After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

    We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

    The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.

    Rural residential sewage accounts for a significant portion of pollutant loads to the aquatic ecosystems in China. Although municipal sewage treatment technologies have been well developed, the sheet cost makes it infeasible to treat rural residential sewage through centralized systems, which is the case even in developed countries such as U.S. The tower earthworm ecofilter system is one promising on-site sewage treatment technology that has already seen wide applications in various rural regions of China. Demonstration projects show that the technology has the advantages of high pollutant removal rates as well as low cost and maintenance need. Nevertheless, many rural residents as well as local authorities have yet acknowledged rural sewage´s significant impacts on the water environment. There is still much difficulty to the mass implementation of the technology in China.
  • Keywords
    public utilities; sewage treatment; China; aquatic ecosystems; municipal sewage treatment; onsite sewage treatment technology; pollutant loads; rural residential sewage; rural sewage treatment; tower earthworm ecofilter system; water environment; Lakes; Nitrogen; Organic compounds; Poles and towers; Sewage treatment; Wastewater treatment; Water pollution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Wuhan
  • ISSN
    2151-7614
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5088-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/icbbe.2011.5781160
  • Filename
    5781160