Effects of sorption, sulphate reduction, and Phragmites australis on the removal of heavy metals in subsurface flow constructed wetland microcosms

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 193-198

  Lesage, Els ^a   Rousseau, D P L ^b   Van de Moortel, A ^a   Tack, F M G ^a   De Pauw, N ^a   Verloo, M G ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cobalt; Copper; Industrial wastewater; Nickel; Redox; Straw; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); HEAVY METALS; REDOX REACTIONS; REDUCTION; SORPTION; WETLANDS;

CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; INCUBATION; MICROCOSM; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

COBALT; COPPER; GLUCOSE; HEAVY METAL; NICKEL; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFATE; ZINC;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); HEAVY METALS; REDOX REACTIONS; REDUCTION; SORPTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; HEAVY METAL; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SORPTION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MICROCOSM; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PLANT; SAND; STRAW; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ADSORPTION; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; METALS, HEAVY; SULFATES; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER PURIFICATION; WETLANDS;

PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS;

EID: 34548248168     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2007.509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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