Quantifying the hydraulic performance of treatment wetlands using the moment index

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1691-1699

  Wahl, Mark D ^a   Brown, Larry C ^a   Soboyejo, Alfred O ^a   Martin, Jay ^a   Dong, Bin ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Constructed wetland; Hydraulic efficiency; Hydraulic index; Moment index; Nominal divide; Residence time distribution (RTD); Retention time; Treatment wetland

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; HYDRAULIC EFFICIENCY; MOMENT INDEX; NOMINAL DIVIDE; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; RETENTION TIME; TREATMENT WETLANDS;

EFFLUENT TREATMENT; HYDRAULICS; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTION DETECTION;

WETLANDS;

BATHYMETRY; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; CORRELATION; DATA SET; EFFLUENT; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE TIME;

EID: 77957796047     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2010.07.014     Document Type: Article

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