The treatment of domestic wastewater using small-scale vermicompost filter beds

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 197-203

  Taylor, M ^a   Clarke, W P ^a   Greenfield, P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Domestic wastewater; Earthworms; Filtration; Organic filtration media; Organic waste

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DENITRIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FILTRATION; NITRIFICATION; PH EFFECTS;

SMALL-SCALE REACTORS; VERMICOMPOST FILTRATION;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DOMESTIC WASTE; FILTRATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 1542321154     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2003.12.003     Document Type: Article

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