Contents [Environment Protection Engineering. Vol. 41, 2015, nr 3]

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CONTENTS

P. WOLSKI,I.ZAWIEJA, Susceptibility of conditioned excess sewage sludge to biodegradation and dewatering ... 5 M. GAJEWSKA, Influence of composition of raw wastewater on removal of nitrogen compounds

in multistage treatment wetlands ... 19 S.-Y.ZHANG,G.LI,X.-L.LI,L.TAO, Four stage hybrid constructed wetlands treating low strength

aquaculture wastewater with and without artificial aeration ... 31 A. AHSAN,M.ALAMGIR,M.IMTEAZ,S.SHAMS,M.K.ROWSHON,M.G.AZIZ,S.IDRUS, Municipal

solid waste generation, composition and management: issues and challenges. A case study ... 43 S.-D.KIM,H.-S.DHO,S.-J.LEE, Contamination of soil with heavy metals drained out from

aban-doned mines in the south-west region of Korea ... 61 S.-Y.OH,M.-K.YOON,Degradations of 2,4-dichlorophenol and polychlorinated biphenyls with

zero valent iron under subcritical conditions. Importance of subcritical water oxidation ... 75 W. JERZAK,Z.KALICKA,E.KAWECKA-CEBULA, On CO and NOx emission in the kinetic

combus-tion of propane/natural gas mixtures ... 87 M. ZIELINA,W.DĄBROWSKI,R.I.MACKIE, Laboratory and numerical experiments into efficient

management of VDR filter plants ... 101 R. NABIZADEH,K.NADDAFI,M.KHAZAEI,R.F.FARD,H.IZANLOO,Z.YAVARI,Upgrading the

effluent quality of an aerated lagoon with horizontal roughing filtration ... 121 H. E.ÖKTEN,A.CORUM,H.H.DEMIR, A comparative economic analysis for medical waste

treat-ment options ... 137 A. HOŁTRA, D. ZAMORSKA-WOJDYŁA, Assessment of the physiological condition of Salvinia

natans L. exposed to copper(II) ions ... 147 D. ANDERS,M.ALWAELI, Application of post-filtered diatomaceous earth from brewing industry

in composting ... 159 A. SZCZUREK, M.MACIEJEWSKA, T.PIETRUCHA, Empirical cumulative distribution function of