Surfactants as bubble surface modifiers in the flotation of algae: Dissolved air flotation that utilizes a chemically modified bubble surface

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 4883-4888

  Henderson, Rita K ^a,b   Parsons, Simon A ^a   Jefferson, Bruce ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; CATIONIC SURFACTANTS; DYES; FLOTATION; REMOVAL; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; RECYCLING;

BUBBLE SURFACES; CELL REMOVAL; DISSOLVED AIR FLOTATION (DAF); MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA;

FROTH FLOTATION;

CATIONIC SURFACTANT; SURFACTANT;

ALGA; BUBBLE; CATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODELING; SURFACTANT;

ADSORPTION; ALGA; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; FLOTATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; NONHUMAN; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADSORPTION; ALGAE; FRESH WATER; MICROCYSTIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; WATER PURIFICATION;

ALGAE; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA;

AERUGINOSA; BUBBLE INTERFACES; BUBBLE SURFACE; CELL REMOVAL; CHEMICALLY MODIFIED; COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; DISSOLVED AIR FLOTATIONS; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; RECYCLE RATIOS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; THEORETICAL MODELS;

EID: 46849115094     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es702649h     Document Type: Article

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