Wastewater treatment by soil infiltration: Long-term phosphorus removal

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 140-141, Issue , 2012, Pages 24-33

  Eveborn, David ^a   Kong, Deguo ^a   Gustafsson, Jon Petter ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Batch experiment; Chemical speciation modelling; On site wastewater treatment; Phosphorus; Removal mechanisms; Soil treatment system

Indexed keywords

BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BED MATERIALS; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE PRECIPITATION; CHEMICAL MECHANISM; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; MASS BALANCE; ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT; ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS; ONSITE TREATMENT; P REMOVAL; PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; REMOVAL MECHANISM; SEPTIC SYSTEM; SOIL INFILTRATION; SOIL TREATMENTS;

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; CHEMICAL SPECIATION; EUTROPHICATION; EXPERIMENTS; LEACHING; PHOSPHORUS; RECLAMATION; SOILS; SORPTION;

INFILTRATION;

ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS;

ALUMINUM COMPOUND; EUTROPHICATION; INFILTRATION; LEACHING; MASS BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXALATE; PHOSPHORUS; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; BIOSORPTION; CALCULATION; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; PH; PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL INFILTRATION; SOIL TREATMENT; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

FILTRATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PHOSPHORUS; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84866040536     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: 18736009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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