Redox potential dynamics in a horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetland for wastewater treatment: Diel, seasonal and spatial fluctuations

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 223-232

  Dušek, Jiří ^a,b   Picek, Tomáš ^b   Čížková, Hana ^a,b  

^a Wetland Ecology   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Constructed wetlands; Continuous measurement; Phragmites australis; Redox potential; Redox processes; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ELECTRODES; PHOSPHORUS; PLATINUM; POLLUTION; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WETLANDS;

CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; REDOX POTENTIAL; REDOX PROCESSES;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTION CONTROL; REDOX POTENTIAL; REEDBED; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS;

EID: 54049147233     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2008.08.008     Document Type: Article

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