Treatment performance of integrated vertical-flow constructed wetland plots for domestic wastewater

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue , 2012, Pages 152-159

  Chang, Jun jun ^a,b   Wu, Su qing ^a,b   Dai, Yan ran ^a,b   Liang, Wei ^a   Wu, Zhen bin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

DO; Domestic wastewater; Integrated vertical flow constructed wetlands (IVCWs); Plant combination; Temperature; Treatment performance

Indexed keywords

DO; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER; PLANT COMBINATION; TREATMENT PERFORMANCE; VERTICAL FLOW CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; INTEGRATION; LOADING; NITROGEN REMOVAL; TEMPERATURE;

WETLANDS;

AQUATIC PLANT; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MONOCOTYLEDON; NITRIFICATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARUNDO DONAX; CANNA INDICA; PONTEDERIA CORDATA; TYPHA ORIENTALIS;

EID: 84860306415     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.03.019     Document Type: Article

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