Kinetics of leaching of tunisian phosphate ore particles in dilute phosphoric acid solutions

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 136-142

  Brahim, Faouzi Ben ^a   Mgaidi, Arbi ^a   Elmaaoui, Mohamed ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Activation energy; Diffusion coefficient; Kinetics; Mass transfer coefficient; Phosphate ore dissolution

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; DISSOLUTION; LEACHING; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHOSPHORIC ACID; REACTION KINETICS;

MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS;

PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS;

EID: 0033077124     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450770123     Document Type: Article

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