Improving wastewater effluent filtration by changing flow regimes-Investigations in two cold climate pilot scale systems

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-203

  Põldvere, Elar ^a,b   Karabelnik, Kristjan ^a,b   Noorvee, Alar ^a,b   Maddison, Martin ^a   Nurk, Kaspar ^a   Zaytsev, Igor ^a   Mander, Ülo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b Alkranel Ltd   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Aeration; Batch operation; Constructed wetland; Design; Horizontal subsurface flow filter; Re circulation; Vertical subsurface flow filter

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DESIGN; EFFLUENTS; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); FILTRATION; HYBRID SYSTEMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POROUS MATERIALS; PURIFICATION; ROADS AND STREETS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER FILTRATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RECYCLING; WETLANDS;

AERATION; BATCH-OPERATION; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; HORIZONTAL SUBSURFACE FLOW FILTER; RE-CIRCULATION; VERTICAL SUBSURFACE FLOW FILTER;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

AERATION; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DENITRIFICATION; DOMESTIC WASTE; FILTER; FILTRATION; LIMESTONE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 59149083795     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2008.05.019     Document Type: Article

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