Treatment of agricultural wastewater in a pilot-scale tidal flow reed bed system

Environmental Technology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 233-237

  Sun, G ^a   Gray, K R ^a   Biddlestone, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural wastewater; BOD5; Oxygenation; Reed beds; Tidal flow

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; EFFLUENTS; MAMMALS; OXYGENATION; WASTE TREATMENT;

AGRICULTURAL WASTEWATER; AMMONIACAL NITROGEN; BOD5; HORIZONTAL FLOWS; INITIAL TREATMENT; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION RATE; REED BED; TIDAL FLOW;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

AERATION; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; HIGHER PLANT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER FLOW;

EMBRYOPHYTA; PHRAGMITES; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0032986515     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593332008616813     Document Type: Article

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