Nitrate removal rate, efficiency and pollution swapping potential of different organic carbon media in laboratory denitrification bioreactors

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue , 2012, Pages 198-209

  Healy, Mark G ^a   Ibrahim, Tristan G ^b   Lanigan, Gary J ^b   Serrenho, Ana João ^a   Fenton, Owen ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b TEAGASC   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Denitrification bioreactor; Groundwater nitrate

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; C EMISSIONS; CARBON FLUXES; DESIGN CRITERION; FIELD SCALE; LODGEPOLE PINE; MICROBIAL REDUCTION; N SPECIES; NITRATE REMOVAL; NITROUS OXIDE; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; REMOVAL RATE; RICH MEDIAS; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SOIL CONTROL; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; TOTAL SURFACE AREA; WOODCHIPS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOCONVERSION; BIOREACTORS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DENITRIFICATION; EUTROPHICATION; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LEACHING; METHANE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTION;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

BIOREACTOR; CARBON EMISSION; DENITRIFICATION; GROUNDWATER; LABORATORY METHOD; METHANE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE WATER;

HORDEUM; PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 84855810537     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2011.12.010     Document Type: Article

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