Phytoremediation: An ecotechnology for treating contaminated sites

Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 290-298

  Yang, Lei ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Economic factors; Groundwater pollution; Soil pollution; Waste management

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEAVY METALS; HEAVY WATER; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL WASTES; LAND FILL; LEACHATE TREATMENT; LEACHING; METALS; OIL SPILLS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY; POLLUTION; RADIOISOTOPES; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTES; WATER TREATMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENTS; CHLORINATED ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; CONTAMINATED SITES; ECO TECHNOLOGY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY; H IGH CONCENTRATIONS; HAZARDOUS POLLUTANTS; LANDFILL LEACHATE; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PHYTOTECHNOLOGY; PRE TREATMENTS; REMEDIATION STRATEGIES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

WATER POLLUTION;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTAMINATED LAND; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PHYTOREMEDIATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SOIL POLLUTION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 52649109729     PISSN: 1090025X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-025X(2008)12:4(290)     Document Type: Article

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