Purification capacity of a highly loaded laboratory scale tidal flow reed bed system with effluent recirculation

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 330, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 1-8

  Zhao, Y Q ^a   Sun, G ^a   Allen, S J ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural wastewater; Constructed wetland; Nitrification; Recirculation; Reed bed; Tidal flow

Indexed keywords

EFFLUENTS; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; PURIFICATION; SOLID WASTES; WASTEWATER;

AGRICULTURAL WASTEWATER; EFFLUENT RECIRCULATION; ORGANIC MATTERS;

TIDAL POWER;

EFFLUENT; REEDBED; TIDE; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; EFFLUENT; NITRIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; TIDAL VOLUME; WASTE WATER; AGRICULTURE; BIOREMEDIATION; FILTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; POACEAE; SEWAGE; WATER FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT;

PHRAGMITES;

NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

AGRICULTURE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; FILTRATION; NITRATES; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POACEAE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 4644275405     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.03.002     Document Type: Article

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