Application and features of cascade aquatic plants system for sewage treatment

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 147-161

  Zimmels, Y ^a   Kirzhner, F ^a   Malkovskaja, A ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aquatic plants; Cascade treatment; Efficacy; Eichhornia crassipes; Free water surface flow system (FWS); Pistia stratiotes; Settled sewage

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COMPOSTING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CROPS; OXYGEN; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TURBIDITY; TURBULENT FLOW; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

AQUATIC PLANTS; CASCADE TREATMENT; EFFICACY; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; FREE WATER SURFACE FLOW SYSTEM (FWS); PISTIA STRATIOTES; SETTLED SEWAGE;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND;

AGRICULTURAL EMISSION; AIR TEMPERATURE; AQUATIC PLANT; BIOINDICATOR; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CROP; HERB; IRRIGATION; KINETICS; LABORATORY METHOD; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TURBIDITY; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

EICHHORNIA; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; LACTUCA; PISTIA STRATIOTES;

EID: 51449117635     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2008.07.015     Document Type: Article

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