Simulation of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur conversion in batch-operated experimental wetland mesocosms

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 304-315

  Mburu, Njenga ^a,b   Sanchez Ramos, David ^c   Rousseau, Diederik P L ^a,d   van Bruggen, Johan J A ^a   Thumbi, George ^e   Stein, Otto R ^f   Hook, Paul B ^g   Lens, Piet N L ^a  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b MASINDE MULIRO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^d Hogeschool West Vlaanderen   (Belgium)

^e Kenya Polytechnic University College   (Kenya)

^f Idaho National Laboratory   (United States)

^g MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Batch operated wetland mesocosms; CWM1; Mechanistic model; Oxygen transfer rate

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA REMOVAL; ANAEROBIC PROCESS; BACTERIA CONCENTRATIONS; CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; COD REMOVAL; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; CWM1; DESORPTION PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GENERAL TRENDS; GREENHOUSE CONDITIONS; KEY PROCESS; MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS; MECHANISTIC MODEL; MECHANISTIC MODELS; MESOCOSMS; MIXED REACTORS; MODEL PREDICTION; NUTRIENT REMOVAL; OXYGEN TRANSFER; OXYGEN TRANSFER RATE; PLANT SPECIES; RE-AERATION; ROOT OXYGEN; SIMULATION MODEL; SORPTION PROCESS; SUBSURFACE-FLOW; SULPHATES; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TYPHA LATIFOLIA; WETLAND MESOCOSMS; WETLAND SYSTEMS;

ADSORPTION; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CALIBRATION; DESORPTION; LEACHING; NITROGEN REMOVAL; OXYGEN; SULFUR; WETLANDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AMMONIUM; AQUATIC PLANT; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; CALIBRATION; CARBON; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MESOCOSM; NITROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SOFTWARE; SORPTION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SULFUR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WETLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAREX; CAREX ROSTRATA; SCHOENOPLECTUS; SCHOENOPLECTUS ACUTUS; TYPHA; TYPHA LATIFOLIA;

EID: 84858830101     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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