Greywater treatment with the submergent Triglochin huegelii - A comparison between surface and subsurface systems

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 147-156

  Mars, R ^a   Taplin, R ^a   Ho, G ^a   Mathew, K ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Greywater; Macrophytes; Root zone; Submergents; Triglochin huegelii; Vertical flow

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; NITROGEN REMOVAL; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTS (BOTANY); TISSUE;

GREYWATER;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

NUTRIENT; VEGETATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

MACROPHYTE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

TRIGLOCHIN; TRIGLOCHIN HUEGELII;

EID: 0038717672     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-8574(03)00010-7     Document Type: Article

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