Performance evaluation and effects of hydraulic retention time and mass loading rate on treatment of woodwaste leachate in surface-flow constructed wetlands

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 252-265

  Tao, Wendong ^a   Hall, Ken J ^a   Duff, Sheldon J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Constructed wetland; Evapotranspiration; Hydraulic retention time; Mass loading rate; Maturation; Microbial biomass; Precipitation; Woodwaste leachate

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LIGNIN; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REDOX REACTIONS; REDUCTION; TOXIC MATERIALS; WETLANDS;

CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; MASS LOADING RATE; MATURATION; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; WOODWASTE LEACHATE;

LEACHATE TREATMENT;

ACIDITY; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LEACHATE TREATMENT; LIGNIN; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REDOX REACTIONS; REDUCTION; TOXIC MATERIALS; WETLANDS;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; LEACHATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

ACIDITY; LEACHING; REDOX REACTIONS; WETLANDS;

EID: 33644508367     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2005.10.006     Document Type: Article

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