Water quality improvement in a full-scale tertiary constructed wetland: Effects on conventional and specific organic contaminants

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2517-2524

  Llorens, Esther ^a   Matamoros, Víctor ^b   Domingo, Virginia ^c   Bayona, Josep M ^b   García, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

^c Town Council of the City of Granollers   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ammonium; PPCPs; Surface flow constructed wetland; Tertiary treatment; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; CARBAMAZEPINE; CATALONIA; CHEMICAL OXYGENS; CLOFIBRIC ACIDS; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; EFFLUENT QUALITIES; FAECAL BACTERIA; FAECAL COLIFORMS; LOGARITHMIC UNITS; ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS; PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; PPCPS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SEASONAL TRENDS; SECONDARY EFFLUENTS; SURFACE FLOW CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; TERTIARY TREATMENT; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS; URBAN WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; URBAN ZONES;

AMIDES; BACTERIOLOGY; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COILED TUBING; DRUG PRODUCTS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); OXYGEN; REMOVAL; SURFACE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WETLANDS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMMONIUM; BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; FRESH WATER; OXYGEN; POACEAE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER PURIFICATION; WETLANDS;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRANOLLERS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 61449239000     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.12.042     Document Type: Article

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