High rate nitrogen removal in an alum sludge-based intermittent aeration constructed wetland

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4583-4590

  Hu, Yuansheng ^a   Zhao, Yaqian ^a   Zhao, Xiaohong ^a   Kumar, Jeyakumar L G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; HIGH RATE; HIGH STRENGTH WASTEWATER; HIGH-NITROGEN; INTERMITTENT AERATION; LABORATORY SCALE; LIMITING CONDITION; LOADING RATE; NITRIFICATION AND DENITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CONVERSION; PARTIAL NITRIFICATION; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SIMULTANEOUS NITRIFICATION DENITRIFICATIONS; TOTAL NITROGEN; TREATMENT WETLANDS;

LOADING; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; WETLANDS;

DENITRIFICATION;

ALUMINUM POTASSIUM SULFATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN;

AERATION; ALUMINUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; LABORATORY METHOD; NITRITE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SLUDGE; WASTE TREATMENT;

AERATION; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; NITRIFICATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SLUDGE; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER; WETLAND;

ALUM COMPOUNDS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; DENITRIFICATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NITRIFICATION; NITRITES; NITROGEN; POACEAE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION; WETLANDS;

EID: 84859864103     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es204105h     Document Type: Article

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