Behavior of the mass transfer zone in a biosorption column

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3996-4003

  Naja, Ghinwa ^a   Volesky, Bohumil ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSORPTION COLUMN; EQUILIBRIUM SORPTION ISOTHERMS; FIXED-BED SORPTION COLUMN; MASS TRANSFER ZONE DYNAMICS;

DIFFUSION; DISPERSIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SORPTION;

MASS TRANSFER;

CALCIUM; COPPER ION;

DIFFUSION; DISPERSIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SORPTION;

BIOMASS; FIXED STRUCTURE; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEAWEED; SORPTION; TRANSFORM;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DIFFUSION; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FIXED BED REACTOR; MASS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; SARGASSUM; SARGASSUM FLUITANS; SCALE UP; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL;

ADSORPTION; BIOMASS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CALCIUM; COPPER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SARGASSUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

SARGASSUM FLUITANS;

EID: 33745135421     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es051542p     Document Type: Article

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