Improved granular activated carbon for the stabilization of wastewater pH

ACS Division of Fuel Chemistry, Preprints

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 456-458

  Farmer, Richard W ^a   Dussert, Bertrand W ^a   Kovacic, Susan L ^a  

^a Calgon Carbon Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon oxidation; Granular activated carbon; pH stabilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 3342997874     PISSN: 05693772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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