Nutrient Removal in pilot-scale constructed wetlands treating eutrophic river water: Assessment of plants, intermittent artificial aeration and polyhedron hollow polypropylene balls

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 197, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 61-73

  Tang, Xianqiang ^a   Huang, Suiliang ^a   Scholz, Miklas ^b   Li, Jinzhong ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical oxygen demand; Constructed wetlands; Intermittent artificial aeration; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Polyhedron hollow polypropylene balls

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; INTERMITTENT ARTIFICIAL AERATION; NUTRIENT REMOVAL; POLYHEDRON HOLLOW POLYPROPYLENE BALLS; RIVER WATERS; TIANJIN , CHINA; TOTAL NITROGEN (TN); TOTAL PHOSPHORUS (TR); TP REMOVAL; TYPHA LATIFOLIA;

CHEMICAL PLANTS; DEWATERING; EUTROPHICATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; NONMETALS; NUTRIENTS; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SPHERES; THERMOPLASTICS; WATER AERATION; WETLANDS;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; RIVER WATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TIANJIN;

EID: 58549089875     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-008-9791-z     Document Type: Article

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