Mechanism for the Formation of Elemental Sulfur from Aqueous Sulfide in Chemical and Microbiological Desulfurization Processes

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1417-1423

  Steudel, Ralf ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CATALYSTS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DESULFURIZATION; FREE RADICALS; IONS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULES; OXIDATION; PH; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

HYDROPHOBIC MOLECULES; POLYTHIONATE; SULFATE; SULFIDE; SULFUR BACTERIA;

SULFUR;

EID: 0030126845     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie950558t     Document Type: Article

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