Landfill leachate treatment using sub-surface flow constructed wetland by Cyperus haspan

Waste Management

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1387-1393

  Akinbile, Christopher O ^a,b   Yusoff, Mohd Suffian ^a   Ahmad Zuki, A Z ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Constructed wetland; Cyperus haspan; Effluent; Removal efficiency

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA NITROGEN; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; CYPERUS HASPAN; LANDFILL LEACHATE TREATMENT; LEACHATES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PILOT SCALE; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; RETENTION TIME; SUB-SURFACES; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENTS; EXPERIMENTS; HEAVY METALS; LEACHATE TREATMENT; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MINING LAWS AND REGULATIONS; REMOVAL; TURBIDITY; ZINC;

WETLANDS;

AMMONIA; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; ZINC;

AMMONIA; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EFFLUENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAVY METAL; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; NITROGEN; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PH; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TURBIDITY; WASTE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COLOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; CYPERUS; CYPERUS HASPAN; EFFLUENT; LANDFILL LEACHATE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TURBIDITY;

BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; COLOR; CYPERUS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALAYSIA; METALS, HEAVY; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PILOT PROJECTS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

CYPERUS HASPAN;

EID: 84861573223     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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