Arsenic removal from groundwater through iron oxyhydroxide coated waste products

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 881-888

  Abdallah, Elsadig A M ^a   Gagnon, Graham A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Arsenic; Crushed glass; Iron oxyhydroxides; Scallop shells

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; ARSENIC REMOVAL; BATCH KINETICS; BED VOLUME; BREAKTHROUGH POINT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COATING STABILITY; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; CRUSHED GLASS; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; FERRIC OXIDE; GLASS RECYCLING; GRANULAR FERRIC HYDROXIDE; GROUNDWATER SUPPLY; IRON CONTENT; IRON OXYHYDROXIDE; IRON OXYHYDROXIDES; ISOTHERM ADSORPTION; RESEARCH RESULTS; SCALLOP SHELLS; SURFACE AREA; SYNTHETIC WATERS; WASTE MATERIALS; WASTE PRODUCTS;

ADSORPTION; AQUACULTURE; ARSENIC; CHEMICAL STABILITY; EXPERIMENTS; FIBER OPTIC CHEMICAL SENSORS; GLASS; GLASS INDUSTRY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRON OXIDES; IRON REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SURFACE STRUCTURE; WATER TREATMENT;

DEWATERING;

ADSORPTION; ARSENIC; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLASS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IRON HYDROXIDE; ISOTHERM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WASTE TREATMENT;

EID: 67649831244     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/S08-059     Document Type: Article

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