A serially connected sand filtration and constructed wetland system for small community wastewater treatment

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1208-1215

  Gunes, Kemal ^a   Tuncsiper, Bilal ^b  

^a MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

^b NIGDE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Buried sand filtration; Constructed wetland; Natural wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BURIED SAND FILTRATION; COMBINED SYSTEM; COMBINED TREATMENT SYSTEM; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND TREATMENT SYSTEMS; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; FRESH WATER LAKES; NATURAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; REMOVAL RATE; SAND FILTRATION; SMALL COMMUNITY WASTEWATER TREATMENT; STRONG CORRELATION; SUBSURFACE FLOW CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM; WINTER MONTHS;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; FILTRATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POROUS MATERIALS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SAND; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WETLANDS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; CORRELATION; FILTRATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; RESERVOIR; SAND; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EGIRDIR LAKE; EURASIA; ISPARTA [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 67649410147     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2009.03.023     Document Type: Article

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