Study of nitrogen removal performance in pilot-scale multi-stage vermi-biofilter: operating conditions impacts and nitrogen speciation transformation

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3815-3824

  Wang, Dong ^a   Nie, Er ^a,b   Luo, Xingzhang ^a   Yang, Xiaoying ^a   Liu, Qun ^c   Zheng, Zheng ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b East China Normal University   (China)

^c Department of Environmental Protection of Zhumadian City ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Dry wet ratio; Hydraulic loading rate; Isotope 15N NO3 ; Multi stage bio vermifilter system; Nitrogen removal

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; FILTRATION; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; POLLUTION; SEWAGE; STORM SEWERS; TURBINES;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; HYDRAULIC LOADING RATES; OPTIMISED CONDITIONS; OXYGEN TRANSFER RATE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL PERFORMANCE; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; STATISTICAL CORRELATION; VERMIFILTER;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

BIOFILTRATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NITRATE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEWAGE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

EID: 84940461002     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4713-z     Document Type: Article

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