Reduction of COD in refinery wastewater through adsorption on date-pit activated carbon

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 173, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 750-757

  El Naas, Muftah H ^a   Al Zuhair, Sulaiman ^a   Alhaija, Manal Abu ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Adsorption; COD reduction; Controlling mechanism; Date pit; Petroleum refinery

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION EQUILIBRIA; ADSORPTION PROCESS; BATCH ADSORPTION; COD REDUCTION; CONTROLLING MECHANISM; DATE-PIT; DOMINANT MECHANISM; EQUILIBRIUM DATA; HIGH CONCENTRATION; INTRINSIC KINETICS; KINETIC DATA; KINETICS MODELS; LANGMUIR MONOLAYERS; PSEUDO-SECOND ORDER MODEL; REFINERY WASTEWATERS;

ADSORBENTS; ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DYNAMIC POSITIONING; MASS TRANSFER; MONOLAYERS; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); PETROLEUM REFINERIES; REFINING; WASTEWATER;

ACTIVATED CARBON;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORBENT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MODELING; REACTION KINETICS; REDUCTION; WASTEWATER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; ISOTHERM; KINETICS; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ADSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; ARECACEAE; CHARCOAL; DIFFUSION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDUSTRY; KINETICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OXYGEN; PETROLEUM; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 71749090771     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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