On-farm treatment of dairy soiled water using aerobic woodchip filters

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 6668-6676

  Ruane, Eimear M ^a,b   Murphy, Paul N C ^b   Healy, Mark G ^a   French, Padraig ^b   Rodgers, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Agricultural wastewater treatment; Dairy soiled water; Filter; Nitrogen removal; Solids liquid separation; Wastewater filtration; Woodchip

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BANDPASS FILTERS; EFFLUENTS; FILTRATION; GROUNDWATER; NITROGEN REMOVAL; NUTRIENTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AGRICULTURAL WASTEWATER; AGRICULTURAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT; DAIRY FARMS; DAIRY SOILED WATERS; FILTER; INFLUENT CONCENTRATIONS; SOLID-LIQUID SEPARATION; SUSPENDED SOLIDS; WASTEWATER FILTRATION; WOOD CHIP;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND;

GROUND WATER; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DAIRY FARMING; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FILTER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT LOSS; ORGANIC MATTER; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RISK FACTOR; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DAIRYING; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FARMING SYSTEM; FILTER; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; LAND SPREADING; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER;

EID: 81355122682     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.09.055     Document Type: Article

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