Robust biological nitrogen removal by creating multiple tides in a single bed tidal flow constructed wetland

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 470-471, Issue , 2014, Pages 1197-1204

  Hu, Yuansheng ^a,b   Zhao, Yaqian ^a   Rymszewicz, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE   (China)

Author keywords

Constructed wetland; Nitrogen; Simultaneous nitrification denitrification (SND); Tidal flow

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; RURAL AREAS; TIDES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN REMOVAL; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS (CWS); REMOVAL PERFORMANCE; SIMULTANEOUS NITRIFICATION DENITRIFICATIONS; TIDAL FLOW; TIDAL FLOW CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS;

WETLANDS;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DENITRIFICATION; DESIGN; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOSORPTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; TIDE; URBAN POPULATION; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER; WATER LOADING;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; NITROGEN; SIMULTANEOUS NITRIFICATION DENITRIFICATION (SND); TIDAL FLOW;

ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; NITROGEN; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

EID: 84887642899     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.100     Document Type: Article

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