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Emerging and ecofriendly biological methods for agricultural wastewater treatment

Authors: Matthew Ndubuisi Abonyi,Christopher Chiedozie Obi,Joseph Tagbo Nwabanne,Chukwunonso Onyeka Aniagor
Journal: Environmental Systems Research
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Publish date: 2024-10-15
ISSN: 2193-2697 DOI: 10.1186/s40068-024-00373-4
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You’ve listed costs for different treatment methods, but the units and currencies are all over the place. For example:

Constructed wetlands: $420–$1,730 for 10,000 gpd
MFCs: $6,064 for 1 tonne
Anaerobic digestion: €28,357.709 for 1820/m³
Trickling filter: $23,663,119.96 for 200,000 M/day (is “M³” m³?)
Some costs are in USD, some in Euros, capacities are in gpd, tonnes, m³, M/day… without standardization or even a note on currency conversion or capacity normalization, how can you fairly compare them? This makes the cost comparison pretty misleading.

Also, the anaerobic digestion cost looks suspiciously high, €28 million? Is that a typo? Maybe it’s meant to be €28,357.709, but even then, the decimal places are inconsistent.

If these numbers aren’t corrected or explained, the whole economic argument falls apart. Did you use a common baseline (e.g., cost per m³ treated) or just report values as found in the literature? A quick note on methodology or unit conversion would help a lot.

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