Estrogen removal from treated municipal effluent in small-scale constructed wetland with different depth

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 100, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2945-2951

  Song, Hai Liang ^a   Nakano, Kazunori ^a   Taniguchi, Takashi ^a   Nomura, Munehiro ^a   Nishimura, Osamu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Constructed wetland; Estrogen; Root length density; Treated municipal effluent; Vertical flow

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; ESTROGEN; ROOT LENGTH DENSITY; TREATED MUNICIPAL EFFLUENT; VERTICAL-FLOW;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; OXYGEN; REMOVAL; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

WETLANDS;

ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; OXYGEN;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; EFFLUENT; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; EFFLUENT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

CITIES; ESTROGENS; PLANT ROOTS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SEWAGE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WETLANDS;

EID: 62649166346     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2009.01.045     Document Type: Article

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