Aqueous-phase pulsed streamer corona reactor using suspended activated carbon particles for phenol oxidation: Model-data comparison

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 15-16, 1999, Pages 3095-3105

  Grymonpré, David R ^a   Finney, Wright C ^a   Locke, Bruce R ^a  

^a FAMU FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Activated carbon; Advanced oxidation technology; Aqueous kinetics; Method of averaging; Multiphase reaction and diffusion; Pulsed corona discharge

Indexed keywords

PULSED CORONA DISCHARGE; SUSPENDED ACTIVATED CARBON;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDATION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PHENOLS; REACTION KINETICS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ELECTRICAL TECHNIQUE; KINETICS; OXIDATION; PHENOL; WASTEWATER;

EID: 0033167013     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(98)00428-X     Document Type: Article

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