Removal of heavy metals from industrial effluents by the submerged aquatic plant

Wastewater Treatment, Plant Dynamics and Management in Constructed and Natural Wetlands

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 211-221

  Lesage, Els ^a   Mundia, Charity ^a   Rousseau, Diederik P L ^b   Van De Moortel, Annelies M K ^a   Laing, Gijs Du ^a   Tack, Filip M G ^a   De Pauw, Niels ^a   Verloo, Marc G ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cobalt; Constructed wetlands; Eurasian water milfoil; Plant uptake; Sorption

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892867310     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8235-1_19     Document Type: Chapter

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