Ferrous oxidation chemistry in passive abiotic systems for the treatment of mine drainage

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 81-88

  Dempsey, Brian A ^a   Roscoe, Heath C ^b   Ames, Ryan ^c   Hedin, Robert ^d   Jeon, Byong Hun ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^c Gannett Fleming Inc   (United States)

^d Hedin Environmental   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; DRAINAGE; IRON OXIDES; LAKES; MASS TRANSFER; RATE CONSTANTS;

ALKALINE DISCHARGE; CHEMICAL OXIDATION; HETEROGENEOUS OXIDATION; HETEROGENEOUS RATE CONSTANT; IRON REMOVAL RATE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; RATE OF OXIDATIONS; RATE-LIMITING STEPS;

OXIDATION;

EID: 0039147700     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/geochem.1.1.81     Document Type: Article

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