Kinetic modelling of nitrogen and organics removal in vertical and horizontal flow wetlands

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3137-3152

  Saeed, Tanveer ^a   Sun, Guangzhi ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Constructed wetlands; Denitrification; Kinetics; Nitrification; Organics removal; Wetland modelling

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENTS; FLOW PATTERNS; KINETIC THEORY; NITROGEN REMOVAL; REACTION KINETICS; WETLANDS;

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; FLOW WETLANDS; HORIZONTAL FLOWS; KINETIC COEFFICIENT; KINETIC MODELS; ORGANIC REMOVAL; VERTICAL FLOWS; WETLAND MODELS; WETLAND SYSTEMS;

KINETICS;

NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER;

BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DENITRIFICATION; FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC MATTER; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REACTION KINETICS;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONTINUOUS STIRRED TANK REACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; FRESHWATER SPECIES; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PLUG FLOW REACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER POLLUTANT; WETLAND;

EID: 79955483622     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.03.031     Document Type: Article

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