Treatment of acid mine drainage with anaerobic solid-substrate reactors

Water Environment Research

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1244-1250

  Drury, William J ^a  

^a MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage treatment; Constructed wetlands; Passive treatment; Sulfate reduction; Treatment wetlands

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL SEWAGE TREATMENT; CALCITE; CHEMICAL REACTORS; DRAINAGE; MANURES; MINING; PROTEINS; SAWDUST; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WETLANDS;

SULFATE; WHEY;

EFFLUENT TREATMENT;

ARSENIC; COPPER; IRON; MANGANESE; METAL; SULFIDE; ZINC;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ALKALINITY; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; EFFLUENT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHEY;

EID: 0032851601     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143096X122375     Document Type: Article

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