Nitrate removal and hydraulic performance of organic carbon for use in denitrification beds

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1588-1595

  Cameron, Stewart G ^a   Schipper, Louis A ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Carbon media; Denitrification; Hydraulic performance; Nitrate removal

Indexed keywords

CARBON SOURCE; CARBON SUBSTRATES; COST-EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGY; FIELD TRIAL; GREEN WASTES; HYDRAULIC PERFORMANCE; INSTALLATION COSTS; LABILE CARBON; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MEDIA TYPES; NITRATE REMOVAL; NUTRIENT LEACHING; POINT SOURCE DISCHARGES; REMOVAL RATE; SHORT DURATIONS; SMALL SCALE; START-UPS; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT; WHEAT STRAWS;

DENITRIFICATION; HYDRAULICS; LEACHING; NITRATES; NUTRIENTS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DENITRIFICATION; LABORATORY METHOD; MAIZE; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WOOD;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77956875680     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

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