Performance of duckweed-covered sewage lagoons-I. Oxygen balance and COD removal

Water Research

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2727-2733

  Al Nozaily, F ^a,b   Alaerts, G ^a   Veenstra, S ^a  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

COD; Depth; Duckweed; Kinetics; Lemna; Mixing; Sewage lagoons

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ORGANIC MATTER;

LAGOON; SEWAGE; SLUDGE; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT; LAGOON; NUTRIENT; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

GADUS MORHUA; LEMNA;

EID: 0034237623     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(00)00003-8     Document Type: Article

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