Development of a constructed wetland water treatment system for selenium removal: Use of mesocosms to evaluate design parameters

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 12021-12029

  Huang, Jung Chen ^a   Passeport, Elodie ^a   Terry, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SOURCE; CALIFORNIA; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; DESIGN OPTION; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DIFFERENT SUBSTRATES; FORCED AERATION; MESOCOSMS; ORGANIC AMENDMENTS; OVERLYING SANDS; PEAT MOSS; PLANT SPECIES; RIVER WATER; SALTON SEA; SEDIMENT COMPOSITION; SELENIUM REMOVAL; TREATMENT WETLANDS; WATER COLUMNS; WATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS; WETLAND TREATMENT SYSTEM;

CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SELENIUM; WATER SUPPLY; WETLANDS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

RIVER WATER; SELENIUM;

ALFALFA; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; FISH; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MESOCOSM; MOSS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTION CONTROL; SELENIUM; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT; WATERFOWL;

AERATION; ALFALFA; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; MESOCOSM; MOSS; SEDIMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

MANURE; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MILK PROTEINS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL; SOYBEAN PROTEINS; TYPHACEAE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION; WETLANDS;

CALIFORNIA; SALTON SEA; UNITED STATES;

ANATIDAE; BRYOPHYTA; MEDICAGO SATIVA; TYPHA;

EID: 84868527683     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es301829r     Document Type: Article

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