High rates of ammonia removal in experimental oxygen-activated nitrification wetland mesocosms

Journal of Environmental Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 972-979

  Palmer, Huckleberry ^a   Beutel, Marc ^a   Gebremariam, Seyoum ^a  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Nitrification; Wastewater management; Water pollution; Water quality; Water treatment; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA OXIDATION; AMMONIA REMOVAL; AREA-BASED; BIOLOGICAL NITRIFICATION; CONSTRUCTED TREATMENT WETLANDS; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; ECOTECHNOLOGY; FIELD SCALE; FIRST-ORDER REMOVAL; HIGH RATE; HYDRAULIC LOADING RATES; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; KEY FACTORS; LOW LEVEL; MESOCOSMS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; REMOVAL RATE; SECONDARY EFFLUENT; SIDE STREAMS; WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT; WATER VOLUMES; WETLAND AREA; WETLAND MESOCOSMS; WETLAND SEDIMENTS;

AMMONIA; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; NITRIFICATION; OIL SPILLS; OXIDATION; OXYGENATION; OXYGENATORS; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RECYCLING; WETLANDS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIA; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; MESOCOSM; NITRIFICATION; OXYGENATION; POLLUTION CONTROL; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

TYPHA;

EID: 70349334520     PISSN: 07339372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0000053     Document Type: Article

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