Growth of water hyacinth in municipal landfill leachate with different pH

Environmental Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 833-840

  El Gendy, A S ^a   Biswas, N ^a   Bewtra, J K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Municipal landfill leachate; Nitrogen removal; pH; Water hyacinth; Water hyacinth growth

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; GROWTH RATE; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN REMOVAL; PH; PLANTS (BOTANY);

BATCH EXPERIMENTS; INHIBITORY EFFECT; LEACHATE SAMPLES; MUNICIPAL LANDFILL LEACHATE; ONTARIO , CANADA; RELATIVE GROWTH RATE; WATER HYACINTH; WATER HYACINTH GROWTH;

LEACHATE TREATMENT;

AQUATIC PLANT; GROWTH RESPONSE; INHIBITION; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; PH;

ACIDITY; ALKALINITY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH RATE; HUMIDITY; HYACINTHUS; LANDFILL LEACHATE; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VOLATILIZATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO;

EICHHORNIA; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; HYACINTHUS;

EID: 4444344933     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2004.9619375     Document Type: Article

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