Nitrate removal in shallow, Open-water treatment wetlands

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 11512-11520

  Jasper, Justin T ^a,b   Jones, Zackary L ^a,c   Sharp, Jonathan O ^a,c   Sedlak, David L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Univ of California   (United States)

^c Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; CYTOLOGY; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENTS; GENES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

ANAEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDATION; ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; MICROBIAL DENITRIFICATION; MICROCOSM STUDIES; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; TRACE ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS; TREATMENT WETLANDS; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

HYDRAZINE DERIVATIVE; HYDRAZINE SYNTHASE; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARBON; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORUS; WASTE WATER;

AMMONIUM; DENITRIFICATION; DIFFUSION; EFFLUENT; MICROCOSM; NITRATE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WATER TREATMENT; WETLAND;

ANAMMOX BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; MICROCOSM; NIRK GENE; NIRS GENE; NITROGEN CYCLING; NONHUMAN; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WETLAND; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

CARBON; NITRATES; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PILOT PROJECTS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER QUALITY; WETLANDS;

EID: 84899845287     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es502785t     Document Type: Article

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