Experimental investigation of phytoreclamation of sites affected by sewage sludge

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of many years' scientific work, which started in 2004 when I first became involved in the topic of phytoremediation as a prospective technology for sewage sludge rehabilitation. This was whilst my Master Thesis, which I completed at the Kharkiv National Academy of Municipal Economy (currently the A.N. Beketov National University of Municipal Economy in Kharkiv) in Ukraine. Later, as an Erasmus scholarship holder in Greece, I further developed this idea in the framework of my dissertation. The present PhD research was conducted in the framework of a scientific collaboration between the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece and the A