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Record 1 1995-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wastewater Treatment
  • Botany
CONT

Emergent aquatic macrophytes are water tolerant vascular plants that can be used to greatly improve and expand the performance of conventional sludge drying beds.

CONT

The operation of reed beds is fairly simple. Stabilized sludge is conveyed to one or more modified drying beds planted with one species of aquatic macrophytes, namely Phragmites communis.

Key term(s)
  • aquatic macrophyte system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des eaux usées
  • Botanique
CONT

Comme toutes les plantes, les macrophytes aquatiques dont le système racinaire se trouve dans l'eau transporte l'oxygène de leurs feuilles et de leurs tiges vers les racines.

Spanish

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