Nitrate reduction in a simulated free-water surface wetland system

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 5587-5598

  Misiti, Teresa M ^a   Hajaya, Malek G ^a   Pavlostathis, Spyros G ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon loading; Constructed wetland; Denitrification kinetics; Groundwater; Nitrate loading; Temperature effect

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AQUIFERS; BIOSOLIDS; DENITRIFICATION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; NITRATES; NITROGEN REMOVAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

CARBON LOADINGS; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTORS; DENITRIFICATION KINETICS; FREE WATER SURFACE WETLAND; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; NITRATE LOADINGS;

LOADING;

CARBON; GROUND WATER; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN;

AMMONIA; AQUIFER; BIODEGRADATION; BIOSOLID; CARBON; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DENITRIFICATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GROUNDWATER; LABORATORY METHOD; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SURFACE WATER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOSOLID; CLIMATE; CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTOR; DENITRIFICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WETLAND;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053107853     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.08.019     Document Type: Article

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