Effect of different macrophytes in abating nitrogen from a synthetic wastewater

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1222-1231

  Salvato, Michela ^a   Borin, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Macrophytes; NO3 N NH4 N abatement; Wastewaters; Wetland treatments

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PARTS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; LATIFOLIA; MACROPHYTES; NITROGEN FORM; PHALARIS; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PLASTIC TANKS; SYNTHETIC WASTE WATER; TOTAL LOAD; TYPHA LATIFOLIA; WATER CONSUMPTION; WATER VOLUMES; WETLAND TREATMENT;

EXPERIMENTS; NITROGEN; WASTEWATER; WATER SUPPLY; WETLANDS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASS; MACROPHYTE; NITROGEN; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEDGE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WETLAND;

CAREX ELATA; JUNCUS EFFUSUS; PHALARIS; PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; TYPHA LATIFOLIA;

EID: 77955553179     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2010.04.021     Document Type: Article

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