Evaluation of Posidonia oceanica and organic sediment as biosorbents: Cu removal in fixed bed columns

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 111, Issue , 2008, Pages 575-584

  Alvarez Hornos F J ^a   Gabaldon C ^a   Izquierdo, M ^a   Marzal, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biosorption; Column experiments; Cu; Mass transport model; Organic sediment; Posidonia oceanica

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; COPPER; MASS TRANSPORT; MODELING; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEAGRASS; SORPTION;

ALICANTE [COMUNIDAD VALENCIA]; CASTELLON; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; DENIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TORREBLANCA;

POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

EID: 58849150813     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/WP080571     Document Type: Article

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