Removal of formic acid from wastewater using three-phase three-dimensional electrode reactor

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 144, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 67-79

  Xiong, Ya ^a,b   He, Chun ^a   An, Taicheng ^a   Zhu, Xihai ^a   Karlsson, Hans T ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

COD removal; Electrochemical method; Formic acid; Three phase three dimensional electrodes; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ELECTRODES; NITROGEN; ORGANIC ACIDS;

ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTORS;

WASTEWATER;

ACTIVATED CARBON; FORMIC ACID; NITROGEN;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUE; ELECTRODE; FORMIC ACID; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; EXPERIMENTATION; REACTOR DESIGN; SPARGED REACTOR; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 0037358249     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022931618033     Document Type: Article

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