Potential design methodology for agricultural drainage denitrification bioreactors

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2011: Bearing Knowledge for Sustainability - Proceedings of the 2011 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2740-2748

  Christianson, Laura ^a   Bhandari, Alok ^b   Helmers, Matt ^a  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b Kansas State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Denitrification; Drainage

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DRAINAGE; BIOREACTOR DESIGN; DARCY'S EQUATIONS; DARCY'S FLOW; DESIGN APPROACHES; DESIGN METHOD; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN TECHNIQUE; MODEL PARAMETERS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETENTION TIME; SITE-SPECIFIC;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); BIOCONVERSION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; BIOREACTORS; DENITRIFICATION; DRAINAGE; FLOW RATE; NITROGEN REMOVAL; OPTIMIZATION; POROUS MATERIALS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES;

DESIGN;

EID: 79960410375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41173(414)285     Document Type: Conference Paper

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