Salt tracer experiments in constructed wetland ponds with emergent vegetation: Laboratory study on the formation of density layers and its influence on breakthrough curve analysis

Water Research

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2095-2102

  Schmid, Bernhard H ^a   Hengl, Michael A ^b   Stephan, Ursula ^b  

^a c o Vegagasse 16   (Austria)

^b Inst Wasserbau/Hydrometrische P   (Austria)

Author keywords

Breakthrough curve; Constructed wetlands; Density effects; Mixing energy; Salt tracers; Tracer tests

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); HYDRAULICS; LAMINAR FLOW; NUTRITION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENTATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRATEGIC PLANNING; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVES; EMERGENT VEGETATION; FREE WATER SURFACE (FWS); TRAVEL TIME DISTRIBUTIONS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRACER;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; HYDRODYNAMICS; SALT; TRACER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DENSITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; SALT; TRACER; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; FLOW; INJECTION; LABORATORY; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEGETATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WETLAND;

EID: 1942453439     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2004.01.038     Document Type: Article

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