Complex treatment of the ammonium nitrogen wastewater from rare-earth separation plant

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 8, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 109-117

  Huang, Haiming ^a,b   Xiao, Xianming ^a   Yan, Bo ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Ammonia stripping; Ammonium nitrogen; Breakpoint chlorination; Evaporation crystallization; Rare earth

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954187553     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2009.670     Document Type: Article

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