Treatment of olive mill wastewater in pilot-scale vertical flow constructed wetlands

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 931-939

  Herouvim, Elissavet ^a   Akratos, Christos S ^a   Tekerlekopoulou, Athanasia ^a   Vayenas, Dimitrios V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Constructed wetlands; Olive mill wastewater; Vertical flow

Indexed keywords

COMMON REED; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; HARVEST SEASON; HIGH INFLUENT CONCENTRATION; OLIVE MILL; OLIVE MILL WASTEWATER; OLIVE MILL WASTEWATERS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOSPHATE REMOVAL; PILOT SCALE; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; POROUS MEDIA; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SURFACE LOADS; VERTICAL FLOW CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; VERTICAL FLOWS;

EFFLUENTS; PHENOLS; POLLUTION; POROUS MATERIALS; REMOVAL; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

WETLANDS;

AMMONIA; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; EFFLUENT; EVERGREEN TREE; HARVESTING; MAGNITUDE; MILL; ORTHOPHOSPHATE; PHENOL; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

GREECE;

PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS;

EID: 79955617990     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2011.01.018     Document Type: Article

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