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I hereby declare that this thesis is my own account of my research and contains as its main content work that has not previously been submitted X Sergio Santos Domingos for a degree at any university. Supervisors Dr Stewart Dallas Professor Goen Ho i
Page 1: Vertical flow constructed wetlands
Page 5 and 6: Acknowledgements I would like to th
Page 7 and 8: Abstract The focus of this thesis i
Page 9 and 10: AMO - ammonia monooxygenase AOB - a
Page 11: Chapter 6: Heavy metals in a constr
Page 14 and 15: processes. In the case of nitrogen
Page 16 and 17: Because wetlands are passive system
Page 18 and 19: • Characterize the AOB community
Page 20 and 21: Chapter 2: Literature Review 2.1 In
Page 22 and 23: Figure 2.1: Section view of a typic
Page 24 and 25: of constructed wetlands used for in
Page 26 and 27: wet and dry cycles, oxidation-reduc
Page 28 and 29: Sulfate reduction occurs under anae
Page 30 and 31: NO2 Nitrogen dioxide +4 - NO3 Nitra
Page 32 and 33: inorganic carbon (i.e. CO2 or HCO3
Page 34 and 35: to improve denitrification in HF CW
Page 36 and 37: shown that anammox bacteria belong
Page 38 and 39: 2.4.2.5 Nitrogen transforming bacte
Page 40 and 41: 2000), NOB communities (Maixner et
Page 42 and 43: nitrification and nitrate reduction
Page 44 and 45: chemisorption. Cation exchange invo
Page 46 and 47: Saline effluents are conventionally
Page 48 and 49: 10g/L and 35g/L inhibited growth ra
Page 50 and 51: 2.6 Summary The potential use of ve
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standards while dealing with higher
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The fine sand used had a high poros
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used as tracers in small scale cons
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a small zip lock bag; this procedur
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3.2.7 Clone library Cloning reactio
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3.3 Results 3.3.1 Tracer experiment
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3.3.3 Water physical-chemical param
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Table 3.4: Mean (standard deviation
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NH 3-N (mg/L) Figure3.6: Ammonia ni
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ANOVA (log10 transformed data to me
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eceived 35g/L NaCl. The presence of
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NH 3-N concentration out (mg/L) 70
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Table 3.5 shows that he majority of
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0.1 AF533666 Methylococcus capsulat
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Dec-08 Aug-09 Mar-09 C surf C 5cm C
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Dec-08 Mar-09 Aug-09 T1 Surf T1 5cm
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Mar-09 Aug-09 10g/L NaCl T2 surf T2
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Tanneries wastewater treatment syst
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oxidised to nitrate. Because nitrat
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that other groups were completely e
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higher in the control system than i
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Determining how environmental facto
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1g of glacial acetic acid = 1.07g C
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congruence with 16S rRNA-based taxo
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Table 4.1: Mean values, ± standard
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the form of N2O. N2O production fro
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denitrification to occur given that
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Nitrosomonas sp, as demonstrated by
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previous experiment and received oc
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Edmonds et al. (2009) verified no m
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Chapter 5: Combining industrial was
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5.2 Materials and Methods 5.2.1 Wet
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(blower) while the other did not ha
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COD decreased during storage in bot
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NH 3N (mg/L) 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 1
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TN (mg/L) 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 Fig
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5.4. Conclusions and Outlook The us
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6.2 Study Site and Methods 6.2.1 We
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sediment samples and 18 plant sampl
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concentrations were brought to belo
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[Cu] ppm 200 150 100 50 0 2 m Indiv
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elements were applied in water at t
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macrophytes from polluted urban str
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The objective of this study was to
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7.2.3 Polymerase Chain Reactions (P
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N removed was converted to NO3-N by
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The higher percentages of TN remove
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0.1 AB473817 Nitrosococcus oceani A
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Nitrosomonas nitrosa strains have r
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preventing the new cells from recei
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0.75 m Figure 8.2: Proposed depth a
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plant diversity. Candidate native R
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was completed full aerial photograp
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8.2.3 Operation The two new cells,
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therefore not be included in the an
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Table 8.2. Total loads and average
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2010, woodchips were added to the s
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Chapter 9: Conclusions and further
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References Ahn Y.H. (2006). Sustain
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CCME (2001). Canadian Sediment Qual
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Domingos, S., Germain, M., Dallas,
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Henry, S., Bru, D., Stres, B., Hall
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Langergraber, G. (2001). Developmen
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Moussa, M. S., Sumanasekera, S.U.,
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Seidel, K., (1955). Die Flechtbinse
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Vredenbregt, L.H.J., Potma, A.A., N
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Appendices Appendix A: Particle siz
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Appendix B: Results from TaqI and H
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Treatment 2 wetland Mar-09 Aug-09 1
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Results of the HaeIII based T-RFLP
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Comparison of Surface samples from
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temperature (°C) 35 30 25 20 15 10
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