Performance evaluation of planted and unplanted subsurface-flow constructed wetlands for the post-treatment of UASB reactor effluents

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3025-3033

  Dornelas, Filipe Lima ^a   Machado, Matheus Boechat ^a   Von Sperling, Marcos ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Horizontal subsurface flow wetlands; UASB reactor; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; PARALLEL FLOW; REMOVAL; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WETLANDS;

CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; EFFLUENT CONCENTRATIONS; FINAL EFFLUENTS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; ORGANIC MATTER; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POST TREATMENT; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SUBSURFACE-FLOW; SUSPENDED SOLIDS; TYPHA LATIFOLIA; UASB REACTOR; UPFLOW ANAEROBIC SLUDGE BLANKETS;

EFFLUENTS;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHATE;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; EFFLUENT; ORGANIC MATTER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SLUDGE; SUSPENDED LOAD; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BRAZIL; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC WASTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MACROPHYTE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; REACTOR MONITORING; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TURBIDITY; UPFLOW REACTOR; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; SEWAGE; TROPIC CLIMATE; TYPHACEAE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WETLAND;

TYPHA LATIFOLIA;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BRAZIL; SEWAGE; TROPICAL CLIMATE; TYPHACEAE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION; WETLANDS;

EID: 77649214048     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2009.743     Document Type: Article

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