Mercury removal from aqueous solutions using silica, polyacrylamide and hybrid silica-polyacrylamide aerogels

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 159, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 107-115

  Ramadan, Hiba ^a   Ghanem, Aline ^b   El Rassy, Houssam ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Aerogel; Hybrid; Mercury; Polyacrylamide; Silica

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; ADSORPTION KINETICS; ADSORPTIVE CAPACITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CO-EXISTENCE; CONTACT TIME; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; HYBRID; HYBRID AEROGELS; HYBRID SILICA; INTRA-PARTICLE DIFFUSION; IONS ADSORPTION; LANGMUIR ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; MERCURY; MERCURY ADSORPTION; MERCURY REMOVAL; NITROGEN ADSORPTION; POLYACRY LAMIDE; RATE-CONTROLLING; SECOND ORDERS; SURFACE INTERACTIONS; SWELLING BEHAVIOR;

ADSORBENTS; AEROGELS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; CHEMISORPTION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GAS ADSORPTION; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; PHYSISORPTION; SILICA;

PH EFFECTS;

EID: 77950000290     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.02.051     Document Type: Article

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