Effect of pore-blocking background compounds on the kinetics of trace organic contaminant desorption from activated carbon

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 4825-4830

  To, Priscilla C ^a,b   Mariñas, Benito J ^b   Snoeyink, Vernon L ^a,b   Wun, Jern Ng ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHARCOAL; DESORPTION; DIFFUSION; IMPURITIES; KINETICS; LEAD ALLOYS; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; ACTIVATED CARBON; CONTAMINATION;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); CONTAMINANT DESORPTION; CONTAMINANT REMOVAL; DESORPTION KINETICS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; KINETIC TESTS; KINETICS OF ADSORPTION; MICRO-POLLUTANTS; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER (NOM); ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS; ORGANIC MATTER (OM); PORE BLOCKING; POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON (PAC[TRADEMARK]); UNDESIRABLE EFFECTS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; DESORPTION;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORBENT; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; DESORPTION; KINETICS; ORGANIC POLLUTANT;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; DESORPTION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; KINETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLLUTANT;

ADSORPTION; CHARCOAL; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; WATER PURIFICATION;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; BACKGROUND ORGANIC MATTERS; CONTAMINANT REMOVAL; DESORPTION KINETICS; KINETIC TESTS; MICROPOLLUTANTS; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; PORE BLOCKING; POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON; TRACE CONTAMINANTS; TRACE ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS; UNDESIRABLE EFFECTS;

EID: 46849110348     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es800058s     Document Type: Article

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