Research & Development

Published Papers

Sun, G., Gray, K.R., Biddlestone, A.J., Cooper, D.J., (1999). Treatment of agricultural wastewater in a combined tidal flow-downflow reed bed system. Water Science & Technology. Vol. 40, No.  3, pp 139 - 149.

Sun, G., Gray, K.R., Biddlestone, A.J., Allen, S.J.,  Cooper, D.J., (2003). Effect of effluent recirculation on the performance of a reed bed system treating agricultural wastewater. Process Biochemistry, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp 351-357.

Cooper, P., Willoughby, N., Cooper, D.J., (2004) The use of reed beds for sludge drying. Journal of the Charted Institute of Water and Environmental Management. Vol. 18, No. 2, pp 85 - 89.
   
Neilsen, S.M., Willoughby, N., (2005). Sludge Treatment and Drying Reed Bed Systems in Denmark. Journal of the Charted Institute of Water and Environmental Management. Vol. 19, No. 4, pp 296-305

Cooper, D.J., Cooper, P., Griffin, P., (2005) Factors affecting the longevity of sub surface horizontal flow systems operating as Tertiary treatment for sewage effluent. Water Science and Technology. Vol. 51, pp 127-135.

Sun, G., Zhao, Y., Allen, S., Cooper, D.J., (2006) Generating "Tide" in pilot scale constructed wetlands to enhance agricultural wastewater treatment. Engineering Life Science, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp 1-7.


Conference Papers

Gray K.R., Biddlestone A.J., Thayanithy K., Job G.D., Bere S.S.J., Edwards J., Sun G., Cooper D.J., (1996) Use of reed bed treatment systems for the removal of BOD and ammoniacal-nitrogen from agricultural dirty waters. 5th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control. Vienna, Austria.

Sun, G., Gray, K.R., Biddlestone, A.J., Cooper, D.J., (1998) Treatment of Agricultural Wastewater in combined Tidal Flow - Downflow Reed Red System.  6th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control,  27 September - 2 October, Aguas de Sao Pedro, Brazil.

Cooper, D.J., and Willoughby, N., (1999). Dewatering of Sludge at Small Sewage Treatment Works using Reed Beds. 4th Aqua-Enviro/CIWEM European Biosolids and Organic Residuals Conference, 15-17 November, Wakefield, UK.

Edwards, J.K., Gray, K.R., Cooper, D.J., Biddlestone, A.J., Willoughby, N., (2000) Reed Bed De-watering of Agricultural Sludge’s and Slurries.  7th International Conference on Wetlands for Water Pollution Control, 11-16 November, Florida, USA.

Cooper, D.J., Cooper, P.F., (2001) Experience in the UK of de-watering domestic sewage sludge and agricultural sludge’s in Sludge Drying Reed Beds.  Nutrient Cycling and Retention in Natural and Constructed Wetlands IV, 26-28 September, Trebon, Czech Republic.

Cooper, P., Cooper, D.J., Willoughby, N., (2001)   Advances in the use of reed beds for sludge treatment.  7th CIWEM/Aqua Enviro European Biosolids and Organic Residuals Conference. 17-20 November, Wakefield, UK.

Cooper, D.J., Gray, K.R. (2001). The Role of Reed Beds in Agriculture.  Aqua Enviro, 5-6 December, Doncaster, UK.

Sun, G., Gray, K.R., Biddlestone, A.J., Allen, S.J., Cooper, D.J. (2002). High Strength effluent treatment in a downflow reed bed system with enhanced aeration.  International Water Association World Water Conference,  7-12 April, Melbourne, Australia.

Chapple, M., Cooper, P.F., Cooper, D.J., Revitt, M., (2002). Pilot Trails of a constructed wetland system for reducing the dissolved hydrocarbon in the run off from a decommissioned oil refinery.  8th International Conference on Wetlands Systems for Water Pollution Control 8-25 September, Arusha, Tanzania.

Sun, G., Gray, K.R., Biddlestone, A.J., Allen, S.J., Cooper, D.J., (2002). A novel approach to the operation of vertical flow reed beds.  8th International Conference on Wetlands Systems for Water Pollution Control, 8-25 September, Arusha, Tanzania.

Cooper, P., Cooper, D.J., (2003).  Evaluation of a Tidal Flow Reed Bed System for the treatment of domestic sewage – Nitrification trials.  5th International Workshop on Nutrient Cycling and Retention in Natural and Constructed Wetlands, September 24-27 Borova Lada, Czech Republic.

Neilsen, S.M., Willoughby, N., (2003). Sludge Treatment and Drying Reed Bed Systems. 8th CIWEM/Aqua Enviro European Biosolids and Organic Residuals Conference, 23-26 November, Wakefield, UK.

Cooper, D.J., Cooper, P., Griffin, P., (2004) Factors affecting the longevity of sub surface horizontal flow systems operating as Tertiary treatment for sewage effluent.  9th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control 26-30 September, Avignon, France

Neilsen, S.M., Willoughby, N., (2004). Reduction of Pathogenic Micro-organisms in sludge reed bed systems. 9th CIWEM/Aqua Enviro European Biosolids and Organic Residuals Conference, 14-17 November, Wakefield, UK.

Sun G., Cooper, D.J., Yu Z. (2005) A Statistical analysis on the removal of organic matter in constructed wetlands in the UK. 1st International Symposium on Wetland Pollutant Dynamics and Control, 4-8 September, Ghent, Belgium.

Neilsen, S.M., Willoughby, N., (2005) Sludge Treatment in reed bed systems and recycling of sludge and environmental impact. 10th CIWEM/Aqua Enviro European Biosolids and Organic Residuals Conference, 13-16 November, Wakefield, UK.  

Cooper, D.J., Cooper, P.F., Griffin, P., (2006) Factors affecting the longevity of subsurface horizontal flow systems operating as tertiary treatment for sewage effluent: Part 2. International symposium on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control, 23-29 September, Lisbon, Portugal.

Williams, E., (2006) Does Temperature Effect Reed Bed treatment systems? Poster presentation at the 10th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control , 23-29 September, Lisbon, Portugal.

Neilsen, S.M., Willoughby, N., (2006) Helsinge Sludge Reed Bed Systems. 11th CIWEM/Aqua Enviro European Biosolids and Organic Residuals Conference, 13-15 November, Wakefield, UK.

Williams, E., Cooper, D.J., (2007). Evaluation and review of methods for the assessment of sludge build up in sub surface horizontal flow reed bed treatment systems. International Symposium on Multifunction of Wetland Systems. 25-29 June, Padua, Italy.

Williams, E., Cooper, D.J., (2007) Evaluation and review of methods for the assessment of sludge build up in sub surface horizontal flow reed bed treatment systems. 2nd International Symposium on Wetland Pollutant Dynamics and Control, [WETPOL 2007]. 16-20 September, Tartu, Estonia.

Murphy, C., Hawes, P., and Cooper, D.J., (2008). The application of wetland technology for copper removal from distillery wastewater: a case study. 11th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control, 1- 7 November, Indore, India.

Cooper, P.F., McBarnet, W., O’Donnell, D., McMahon, T., Houston, L., Brian, M., (2008). The treatment of run-off from a fertiliser plant for nitrification, denitrification and P removal by use of Constructed Wetlands: A demonstration study. 11th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control, 1-7 November, Indore, India.

Sun, G., Cooper, P.F., Cooper, D.J., (2008). The removal of organic matter in horizontal flow reed beds in the UK: performance evaluation using Monod and first order kinetics. 11th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control, 1-7 November, Indore, India.

Griffin, P., Wilson, L. Cooper, D.J., (2008). Changes in the use, operation and design of sub-surface flow constructed wetlands in a major UK water utility. 11th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control, 1-7 November, Indore, India.