Seasonal influence on sulfate reduction and zinc sequestration in subsurface treatment wetlands

Water Research

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 3440-3448

  Stein, Otto R ^a   Borden Stewart, Deborah J ^b   Hook, Paul B ^a,c   Jones, Warren L ^a  

^a Idaho National Laboratory   (United States)

^b GEOSYNTEC CONSULTANTS   (United States)

^c Intermountain Aquatics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulrush; Cattail; Constructed wetland; Metal; Mining; Schoenoplectus acutus; Sulfide; Typha latifolia; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); REDOX REACTIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WETLANDS;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; SCHOENOPLECTUS ACUTUS;

WATER TREATMENT;

SULFATE; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); REDOX REACTIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; HERB; MICROCOSM; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REDUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUESTRATION (CHEMISTRY); SULFATE; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFIDE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER TREATMENT; ZINC;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION KINETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PLANT; PLANT GROWTH; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SCHOENOPLECTUS ACUTUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; SUMMER; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSPORT KINETICS; TYPHA LATIFOLIA; WETLAND; WINTER;

SCHOENOPLECTUS ACUTUS; TYPHA; TYPHA LATIFOLIA;

EID: 34447103272     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2007.04.023     Document Type: Article

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