Performance of nitrogen-removing bioretention systems for control of agricultural runoff

Journal of Environmental Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1105-1112

  Ergas, Sarina J ^a   Sengupta, Sukalyan ^b   Siegel, Ryan ^c   Pandit, Arka ^d   Yao, Yifu ^b   Yuan, Xin ^e  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c Tighe and Bond   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Denitrification; Nitrification; Storm water management; Sulfur; Wood

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC NITRIFICATION; ANOXIC DENITRIFICATION; BIORETENTION; DAIRY FARMS; EFFLUENT QUALITY; FIELD TEST; HYDRAULIC LOADING RATES; N REMOVAL; NUTRIENT LOADING; OPERATIONAL CHANGES; ORGANICS; PILOT-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; STORM-WATER MANAGEMENT; STORMWATERS; SUSPENDED SOLIDS; TOTAL PHOSPHOROUS; WETTING AND DRYING; WOOD CHIP;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENTS; FARMS; LOADING; NITRIFICATION; NUTRIENTS; OXIDATION; PHOSPHORUS; REMOVAL; RIVER POLLUTION; STORMS; SULFUR; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WOOD PRODUCTS;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT; LOADING; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT; OXIC CONDITIONS; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SUBSTRATE; SUSPENDED LOAD;

AGRICULTURE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; RETENTION; RUNOFF; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 79955895182     PISSN: 07339372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0000243     Document Type: Article

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