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Treatment by Application Onto Land

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Various land application technologies as means for waste treatment and disposal are introduced. This chapter discusses the engineering topics of: surface spreading, overland flow, infiltration, percolation, slow rate irrigation, crop irrigation, vegetative cover, soil adsorption, soil ion exchange, mineralization, bacteriological activity, waste treatment, water removal, nitrogen removal, phosphorus removal, metal removal, disinfection, process design, land application rate, area requirements, monitoring, organic loading, siting, costs, etc.

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  1. Lenox Institute of Water Technology, Lenox, MA

    Donald B. Aulenbach

  2. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

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  3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Bolton Landing, NY

    Nicholas L. Clesceri

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Aulenbach, D.B., Clesceri, N.L. (2009). Treatment by Application Onto Land. In: Wang, L.K., Pereira, N.C., Hung, YT. (eds) Biological Treatment Processes. Handbook of Environmental Engineering, vol 8. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-156-1_2

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