Phosphorus removal by expanded clay-six years of pilot-scale constructed wetlands experience

Water Environment Research

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 128-137

  Mateus, Dina M R ^a   Pinho, Henrique J O ^a  

^a Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Constructed wetlands; Expanded clay; Phosphorus removal

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); EFFLUENTS; PHOSPHORUS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; EXPANDED CLAY; EXPANDED CLAY AGGREGATES; LANGMUIR AND FREUNDLICH ISOTHERM MODELS; PHOSPHORUS CONCENTRATION; PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT;

PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS;

ADSORPTION; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CLAY; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; HYDRAULICS; PH; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTION CONTROL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REEDBED; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CLAY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; EFFLUENT; ISOTHERM; LABORATORY TEST; LIGHTWEIGHT EXPANDED CLAY; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL;

PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS;

EID: 76149090172     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: 15547531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143009X447894     Document Type: Article

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