The removal of chemical oxygen demand from primary-treated domestic wastewater in subsurface-flow reed beds using different substrates

Water Environment Research

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 336-341

  Manios, Thrassyvoulos ^c   Stentiford, Edward I ^a   Millner, Paul A ^b  

^a School of Civil Engineering

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chemical oxygen demand; Compost; Gravel; Subsurface flow reed beds; Typha latifolia; Wastewater; Wastewater biosolids

Indexed keywords

COMPOSTING; FLOW OF WATER; GRAVEL; LEACHING; RIVERS; SAND; SOIL MECHANICS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIOSOLIDS; REED BEDS; RIVER SAND; TOPSOIL;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND;

BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOSOLID; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COMPOST; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DOMESTIC WASTE; LEACHING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REED BED; SAND; SOIL; TYPHA LATIFOLIA; TYPHACEAE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; SEWAGE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

PHRAGMITES; TYPHA LATIFOLIA; TYPHACEAE;

OXYGEN;

OXYGEN; SOIL; TYPHACEAE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 0642337762     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143003X141141     Document Type: Article

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