Uso de Canna glauca para el tratamiento de aguas residuales domésticas en un humedal artificial de flujo superficial

The design and construction of a prototype of an artificial surface flow wetland was carried out with the aim of purifying domestic waste water. Field data was taken the reactor was designed and built to assess the plant's (Canna glauca) efficiency in sewage treatment. The location, available surface, and the influent flow were considered for the design; as well as available surface and the flow of influence of the influent the hydraulic retention, the size of the rock bed, the volume of the storage tank, resistance (mechanical, presence of sulfates and cleaning and sanitization substance) and permeability were considered to ensure its service life. A prototype was built where water quality was characterized by a HI 9828-0® multiparametric probe, in the reactor tributary ans effluent. Within the most relevant results is that the amount of oxygen, pH, EC, resistivity, STDs, salinity and ORP, are parameters that were favored with the presence of the aquatic plant for the purification of waste water