Evaluation of the use of raw and activated date pits as potential adsorbents for dye containing waters

Process Biochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 193-202

  Banat, Fawzi ^a   Al Asheh, Sameer ^a   Al Makhadmeh, Leema ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Activation; Date pits; Dyes; Kinetic models; Langmuir

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347543960     PISSN: 13595113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-9592(03)00065-7     Document Type: Article

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