Nafion-117 behavior during cation separation from spent chromium plating solutions

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 6805-6810

  Elmuntasir, M ^a   Ahmed, I ^a   Huang, Kuo Lin ^b   Holsen, Thomas M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c Clarkson University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION SEPARATIONS; CHROMIC ACID SOLUTIONS; CHROMIUM PLATING SOLUTIONS; CO-PRESENCE; PORE RADIUS; TORTUOSITY COEFFICIENTS; WATER MOLECULE;

ACIDS; CHROMIUM; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; ION EXCHANGE; ION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; IRON COMPOUNDS; POSITIVE IONS; WATER CONTENT;

NICKEL;

EID: 67849111505     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie900149a     Document Type: Article

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