A combined application of different engineering and biological techniques to remediate a heavily polluted river

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-7

  Sheng, Yanqing ^a   Qu, Yingxuan ^a   Ding, Chaofeng ^a   Sun, Qiyao ^a   Mortimer, Robert J G ^b  

^a YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aeration; Biological aerated filter; Bioremediation; China; Polluted river

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL AERATED FILTER; BIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHINA; ECOLOGICAL FLOATING BEDS; ENGINEERING APPROACHES; FIELD-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; POLLUTED RIVERS; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOREMEDIATION; EXPERIMENTS; POLLUTION; RIVERS; WATER AERATION;

RIVER POLLUTION;

AERATION; BIOENGINEERING; BIOFILM; BIOFILTRATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FILTER; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; ODOR; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER;

EID: 84877351553     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.04.004     Document Type: Article

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