Municipal wastewater treatment using vertical flow constructed wetlands planted with Canna, Phragmites and Cyprus

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages 209-213

  Abou Elela, Sohair I ^a   Hellal, Mohamed S ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Constructed wetlands; Reuse; Vertical flow; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; CAIRO , EGYPT; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; DETENTION TIME; FECAL COLIFORM; FINAL EFFLUENTS; INFLUENT FLOW RATE; MACROPHYTES; MASS REMOVAL; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; PHRAGMITES; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PILOT SCALE; POST TREATMENT; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; RESIDUAL VALUE; REUSE; SMALL COMMUNITY; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE LOADING; TOTAL KJELDAHL NITROGENS; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; TREATED EFFLUENT; VERTICAL FLOW CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; VERTICAL FLOWS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LOADING; RECLAMATION; RURAL AREAS; WATER QUALITY; WETLANDS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; EFFLUENT; FECAL COLIFORM; FLOW VELOCITY; IRRIGATION; MACROPHYTE; MONOCOTYLEDON; PHOSPHORUS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RECYCLING; REEDBED; RURAL AREA; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

CAIRO [EGYPT]; EGYPT;

CYPERUS PAPYRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHRAGMITES; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS;

EID: 84864091724     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.06.044     Document Type: Article

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