A new approach in wetland systems for domestic wastewater treatment using Phragmites sp.

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1797-1803

  Valipour, Alireza ^a   Kalyan Raman, V ^b   Ghole, V S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^b Thermax Limited Chinchwad   (India)

Author keywords

Constructed wetland; Domestic wastewater treatment; Horizontal flow system; Hydraulic retention time; Phytoremediation; Sewage

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT; HORIZONTAL FLOW SYSTEM; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; PHYTOREMEDIATION;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DEGRADATION; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DISSOLVED OXYGEN SENSORS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INVESTMENTS; LAND FILL; PILOT PLANTS; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WETLANDS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DOMESTIC WASTE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RETENTION; SEWAGE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

PHRAGMITES;

EID: 70449521074     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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