Removal of water turbidity by natural coagulants obtained from chestnut and acorn

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 100, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 6639-6643

  Šćiban, Marina ^a   Klašnja, Mile ^a   Antov, Mirjana ^a   Škrbić, Biljana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Acorn; Chestnut; Clarification; Natural coagulants; Water

Indexed keywords

ACORN; ACTIVE COMPONENTS; CHESTNUT; COAGULANT DOSE; COMMON OAK; FAGACEAE; NATURAL COAGULANTS; PH VALUE; RED OAK; TURBID WATER; WATER TURBIDITY;

CLARIFIERS; COAGULATION; SEED; TURBIDITY;

FRUITS;

COAGULATION; PH; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SEED; TURBIDITY; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHESTNUT; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; OAK; PH; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURBIDITY; WATER TREATMENT;

AESCULUS; COAGULANTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT PROTEINS; QUERCUS; SEEDS; WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

AESCULUS; CASTANEA SATIVA; FAGACEAE; QUERCUS CERRIS; QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 69249229551     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2009.06.047     Document Type: Article

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