Treatment of domestic wastewater using an anaerobic baffled reactor followed by a duckweed pond for agricultural purposes

Environmentalist

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 270-279

  Nasr, Fayza A ^a   Doma, Hala S ^a   Nassar, Hossaam F ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Anaerobic baffled reactor; Domestic wastewater; Duckweed pond; Reuse; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DOMESTIC WASTE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; STANDARD (REGULATION); WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

LEMNA;

EID: 70350061702     PISSN: 02511088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10669-008-9188-y     Document Type: Article

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