Highway runoff treatment by lab-scale horizontal sub-surface flow constructed wetlands

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 64, Issue , 2014, Pages 193-201

  Fu, Da Fang ^a   Singh, Rajendra Prasad ^a,b   Juan, Huang ^a   Ojha, C S P ^b,c   Surapalli, Rao Y ^d   Zhang, Tian C ^d  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Filter substrates; Highway runoff; Horizontal sub surface flow CW; Removal efficiency

Indexed keywords

BETTER PERFORMANCE; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; HIGHWAY RUNOFF; HIGHWAY RUNOFF POLLUTANTS; HYDRAULIC CONDITIONS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; EFFLUENTS; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); RUNOFF;

WETLANDS;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; GRASS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; ROAD; RUNOFF; SAMPLING; SUBSTRATE; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

EID: 84893020569     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.12.041     Document Type: Article

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