Constructed Floating Wetlands: A review of research, design, operation and management aspects, and data meta-analysis

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 308, Issue , 2017, Pages 1120-1132

  Pavlineri, Natalia ^a,b   Skoulikidis, Nikolaos Th ^a   Tsihrintzis, Vassilios A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Constructed Floating Wetlands; Natural water wastewater treatment; Total nitrogen removal; Total phosphorus removal

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; PHOSPHORUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS; VEGETATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

CONCENTRATION REDUCTION; HYDRAULIC LOADING RATES; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; MULTI-LINEAR REGRESSION; NATURAL WATERS; OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT; TOTAL NITROGEN REMOVAL; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS;

LOADING;

EID: 84991087334     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2016.09.140     Document Type: Review

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