The use constructed wetlands with horizontal sub-surface flow for various types of wastewater

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-17

  Vymazal, J ^a,b  

^a ENKI ops   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Constructed wetlands; Hybrid systems; Municipal wastewater; Nutrients; Organics; Sub surface flow

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL PULP; COILED TUBING; EFFLUENTS; ELECTRIC GROUNDING; FARMS; HYBRID COMPUTERS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LAND FILL; LEACHATE TREATMENT; LEACHING; NUTRIENTS; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SUGARS; SURFACE TREATMENT; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TEXTILE PROCESSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS; WINE;

CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER; ORGANICS; SUB-SURFACE FLOW;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

BOD; CHEMICAL PULPING; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; GROUNDING; LAND FILL; LEACHING; NUTRIENTS; RUNOFF; WATER FLOW; WETLANDS;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SUIDAE;

EID: 57749186885     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2008.08.016     Document Type: Short Survey

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