Use of Meltblown Nonwoven Fabric Filter for Stormwater Runoff Treatment

Anthropogenic activities (e.g., rural urbanization) play major roles in preventing the achievement of sustainable water quality, where eutrophication—the exacerbation increase nutrient concentrations combined with warmer temperatures and lower light availability, leading to dense growth plant life depleting amount available oxygen killing aquatic life—remains a challenge for surface bodies. Filtration mechanisms, wide range applicability, capture common waterborne pathogens as small 0.1–20.0 μm (bacteria, cysts, spores) 0.001–0.100 (protein, viruses, endotoxins) through process microfiltration ultrafiltration. This study follows premise using designed flow-through system, meltblown nonwoven fabrics measure its performance contaminant constituents contamination eutrophication: total coliforms, nitrate, orthophosphate. The achieved fabric filtration mechanism showed coliforms (59%), nitrate (51%), orthophosphate (46%). current provides an alternative solution more traditional treatment technologies, such chlorine ozone disinfection, which (1) introduces disinfection or byproducts (2) cannot adapt permanent changing conditions newer environmental challenges.