Treatment of arsenic contaminated groundwater using calcium impregnated granular activated carbon in a batch reactor: Optimization of process parameters

Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 129-139

  Mondal, Prasenjit ^a   Mohanty, Bikash ^a   Balomajumder, Chandrajit ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Arsenic; GAC Ca; Groundwater; Surface modified adsorbents

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; ARSENIC; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; OPTIMIZATION; PH; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 77449112989     PISSN: 18630650     EISSN: 18630669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clen.200900081     Document Type: Article

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