Evaluating performance of a constructed wetland treatment system designed to decrease bioavailable copper in a waste stream

Environmental Geosciences

Volumn 15, Issue 1 PART 1, 2008, Pages 21-38

  Murray Gulde, Cynthia L ^a   Bridges, William C ^b   Rodgers Jr , John H ^b  

^a ENTRIX Environmental Consultants   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; THERMODYNAMICS; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY; WETLANDS;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; COPPER; DESIGN METHOD; GUIDELINE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSFORMATION; WASTE TREATMENT;

BIOAVAILABLE FRACTION; CARBON CYCLES; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND TREATMENT SYSTEMS; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; CONTAMINATED WASTEWATER; COPPER CONCENTRATION; DESIGN CRITERION; QUALITY DATA; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; REGULATORY LIMIT; RETENTION TIME; SITE TO SITES; SPECIFIC DESIGN; THERMODYNAMIC PROCESS; TRANSFORMATION PATHWAYS; WASTE STREAM; WATER COLUMNS;

ACIDS; COPPER; DESIGN; HYDRAULICS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SULFUR; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

EID: 51049120449     PISSN: 10759565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/eg.07110707008     Document Type: Article

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