Operation of a horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetland - Microbial fuel cell treating wastewater under different organic loading rates

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 6731-6738

  Villasenor J ^a   Capilla, P ^a   Rodrigo, M A ^a   Canizares P ^a   Fernandez F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell voltage; Constructed wetland; Microbial fuel cell; Organic loading; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; LOADING; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

CATHODIC COMPARTMENTS; CELL VOLTAGES; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; COUPLED DEVICES; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER; FEEDING SYSTEM; HORIZONTAL SUBSURFACE FLOW CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; ORGANIC LOADING RATES; ORGANIC LOADINGS; PILOT SCALE;

MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ORGANIC MATTER;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; FUEL CELL; LOADING; MACROPHYTE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MACROPHYTE; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER FLOW; WATER TEMPERATURE;

PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS;

CELL VOLTAGE; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; ORGANIC LOADING; WASTEWATER;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; RHEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION; WETLANDS;

EID: 84886093396     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.09.005     Document Type: Article

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