What can we learn from old wetlands? Lessons that have been learned and some that may have been forgotten over the past 20 years

Desalination

Volumn 246, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 11-26

  Cooper, Paul ^a  

^a PFC Consulting   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constructed wetlands; Horizontal flow systems; Nitrification; Oxygen transfer; Phragmites australis; Reed beds; Secondary treatment; Tertiary treatment; Vertical flow systems; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; HORIZONTAL FLOW SYSTEMS; OXYGEN TRANSFER; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; REED BEDS; SECONDARY TREATMENT; TERTIARY TREATMENT; VERTICAL FLOW SYSTEMS;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; GROUNDWATER; HYBRID SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL WATER TREATMENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MINING; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WETLANDS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DENITRIFICATION; DOMESTIC WASTE; EFFLUENT; OXYGEN; SEWAGE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS;

EID: 68349131492     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2008.03.040     Document Type: Article

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