COD removal from industrial wastewater using activated carbon prepared from animal horns

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 3887-3891

  Aluyor, Emmanuel O ^a   Badmus, Olalekan A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BENIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Adsorbent; Adsorption; Batch; Freundlich; Kinetics; Langmuir

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON;

ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; WASTE WATER; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 56249137276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16845315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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