Design of a constructed wetland system for treatment of copper-contaminated wastewater

Environmental Geosciences

Volumn 15, Issue 1 PART 1, 2008, Pages 9-19

  Huddleston III, George M ^a   Rodgers Jr , John H ^b  

^a ENTRIX INC   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOXICITY; VEGETATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; COPPER; DESIGN METHOD; ORGANIC MATTER; TOXICITY; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; ECOTOXICOLOGY; LIME; LITERATURE REVIEW; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REDOX POTENTIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDGE; SOIL PROFILE; WATER TREATMENT;

CERIODAPHNIA DUBIA; SCHOENOPLECTUS CALIFORNICUS; SCHOENOPLECTUS;

CERIODAPHNIA DUBIA; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; CONTAMINATED WASTEWATER; COPPER BIOAVAILABILITY; COPPER CONCENTRATION; COPPER PRECIPITATION; COPPER REMOVAL; DIAGNOSTIC MEASUREMENTS; GIANT BULRUSH; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; INFLOW WATERS; MUNICIPAL WATER; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; OSMOCOTE; OUTFLOW CONCENTRATIONS; OUTFLOW WATERS; OVERLYING WATER; PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE; PILOT SYSTEM; REDOX POTENTIALS; SAVANNAH RIVER SITES; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SULFIDE FORMATION; SULFIDIC MINERALS; THEORETICAL MODELING; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; UNTREATED CONTROL; WETLAND CELLS; WETLAND FUNCTIONS; WETLAND VEGETATION;

BIOCHEMISTRY; COPPER; GYPSUM; REDOX REACTIONS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

EID: 51049111601     PISSN: 10759565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/eg.07250707006     Document Type: Review

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