Kinetics of pollutant removal from domestic wastewater in a tropical horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetland system: Effects of hydraulic loading rate

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 527-535

  Trang, Ngo Thuy Diem ^a   Konnerup, Dennis ^b   Schierup, Hans Henrik ^b   Chiem, Nguyen Huu ^a   Tuan, Le Anh ^a   Brix, Hans ^b  

^a CAN THO UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Background concentration; BOD; COD; First order kinetics; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Phragmites vallatoria

Indexed keywords

AREA-BASED; BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; BOD; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER; FIRST ORDER KINETICS; FIRST-ORDER; HORIZONTAL SUBSURFACE FLOW CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; HYDRAULIC LOADING RATES; K-VALUES; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; PHRAGMITES; PILOT SCALE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REMOVAL RATE; REMOVAL RATE CONSTANT; RIVER SANDS; SITE-SPECIFIC; TREATMENT CAPACITY; TROPICAL CONDITIONS; VIET NAM; WARM TEMPERATURES;

AGRICULTURE; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; HYDRAULICS; PHOSPHORUS; RATE CONSTANTS; REMOVAL; ROADS AND STREETS; TROPICS; TURBINES; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

WETLANDS;

AMMONIUM; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DOMESTIC WASTE; KINETICS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; REEDBED; STOCHASTICITY; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

VIET NAM;

PHRAGMITES VALLATORIA;

EID: 77049115620     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2009.11.022     Document Type: Article

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