Remediation of organic and inorganic arsenic contaminated groundwater using a nanocrystalline TiO 2-based adsorbent

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 2514-2519

  Jing, Chuanyong ^a,b   Meng, Xiaoguang ^b   Calvache, Edwin ^b   Jiang, Guibin ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Adsorptive filtration; Charge distribution multi site surface complexation model; EXAFS; Inorganic arsenic; Organic arsenic; TiO 2

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTIVE FILTRATION; EXAFS; INORGANIC ARSENIC; ORGANIC ARSENIC; TIO 2;

ADSORPTION; ARSENIC; CHARGE DISTRIBUTION; CHARGED PARTICLES; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; POROUS MATERIALS; REMEDIATION; REMOVAL; WATER TREATMENT; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EFFLUENTS;

ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; CACODYLIC ACID; GROUND WATER; INORGANIC COMPOUND; METHANEARSONIC ACID; NANOCRYSTAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ADSORPTION; ARSENIC; COMPLEXATION; EFFLUENT; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; OXIDATION; REACTION RATE; REMEDIATION; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; WATER TREATMENT; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; EFFLUENT; FILTRATION; OXIDATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ARSENIC; ARSENICALS; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; GROUNDWATER; KINETICS; NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM;

EID: 68649093471     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.03.011     Document Type: Article

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