Low cost treatment of wastewater containing mercury salts

International Journal of Water

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 40-48

  Goswami, Debasis ^a   Mondal, Bhim Chandra ^a   Das, Arabinda K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN   (India)

Author keywords

Fly ash bed; mercury removal; wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 30644460363     PISSN: 14656620     EISSN: 17415322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJW.2002.002077     Document Type: Article

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