Photoremediation of natural leachate from a municipal solid waste site in a pilot-scale bubble column reactor

Catalysis Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1917-1922

  Qazaq, A S ^a   Hudaya, T ^a   Lee, I A L ^a   Sulidis, A ^a   Adesina, A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bubble column reactor; Municipal solid waste leachate; Photoremediation; Titania; Total organic carbon

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE COLUMNS; DATA ACQUISITION; DECOMPOSITION; KINETICS; LEACHATE TREATMENT; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC CARBON;

BUBBLE COLUMN REACTOR; DECOLOURISATION; MINERALIZATION; PHOTOREACTOR; PHOTOREMEDIATION;

SOLID WASTES;

EID: 35448974121     PISSN: 15667367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catcom.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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