Nickel removal from wastewater by using activated carbon prepared from agro industrial wastes

Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 54-65

  Srinivasan, K ^a   Hema, M ^a  

^a Department of Chemistry   (India)

Author keywords

Coconut oilcake carbon; Isotherm models; Neem oilcake carbon; Ni (ii) removal; Pseudo first order kinetics; Second order kinetics

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; AGROINDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; ISOTHERM; NICKEL; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

AZADIRACHTA INDICA;

EID: 70350554015     PISSN: 09720626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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