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Denitrification bed

A denitrification bed by a glasshouse.

Wastewater from the glasshouses passes through a denitrification bed before being discharged onto land. Denitrifying bacteria within the bed remove nitrate by converting it to atmospheric gases.

Rights: Associate Professor Louis Schipper, Department of Earth & Ocean Sciences, The University of Waikato
Published: 15 April 2009,Updated: 15 April 2009Size: 24.93 KB