MTE water remediation using Loy Yang brown coal as a filter bed adsorbent

Fuel

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 894-904

  Butler, C J ^a,b,c   Green, A M ^a,b   Chaffee, A L ^a,d  

^a CRC for Clean Power from Lignite   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brown coal dewatering; Coal adsorbents; Mechanical thermal expression; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

ADSORBENTS; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); POSITIVE IONS; SALTS;

BROWN COAL DEWATERING; COAL ADSORBENTS; MECHANICAL THERMAL EXPRESSION;

WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 38849137835     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2007.05.032     Document Type: Article

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