Can multiple harvest of aboveground biomass enhance removal of trace elements in constructed wetlands receiving municipal sewage?

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 939-945

  Vymazal, Jan ^a,b   Kröpfelová, Lenka ^a,b   Švehla, Jaroslav ^c   Štíchová, Jana ^c  

^a ENKI ops   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Constructed wetlands; Multiple harvest; Municipal wastewater; Phalaris arundinacea; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; CZECH REPUBLIC; EARLY GROWTH; GROWING SEASON; MUNICIPAL SEWAGE; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; PHALARIS; REED CANARY GRASS; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; BARIUM; BIOMASS; CHROMIUM; CROPS; GALLIUM; HARVESTING; LEAD; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MERCURY (METAL); RUBIDIUM; SEWAGE; STRONTIUM; TIN; TRACE ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS; ZINC;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BIOACCUMULATION; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DOMESTIC WASTE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASS; HARVESTING; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEWAGE; TRACE ELEMENT; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

PHALARIS; PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA;

EID: 77953139935     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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