Efficacy of a denitrification wall to treat continuously high nitrate loads

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 203-211

  Schmidt, Casey A ^a   Clark, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioreactor; DEA; Denitrification wall; Groundwater; Nitrate removal; Permeable reactive barrier

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; AGRICULTURAL EFFLUENTS; AGRICULTURAL LAND; DEA; DISSOLVED ORGANIC C; FLOW DISTANCE; LARGE N; LOAD REDUCTION; NITRATE LOADS; NITRATE REMOVAL; NITRATE-N; PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS; PORE WATERS; POTENTIAL DENITRIFICATION; RAPID REDUCTION; REMOVAL RATE; THROUGH THE WALL; UPPER-END; WATER QUALITY EVALUATION;

AGRICULTURE; BIOREACTORS; EFFLUENTS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LEACHING; NITRATES; WATER QUALITY;

DENITRIFICATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOREACTOR; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EFFLUENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULICS; LONGEVITY; MASS BALANCE; NITRATE; PERMEABILITY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POREWATER; REACTIVE BARRIER; RETAINING WALL; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84857961293     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.02.006     Document Type: Article

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