Rice bran carbon: An alternative to commercial activated carbon for the removal of hexavalent chromium from aqueous solution

BioResources

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1661-1674

  Ranjan, Deeksha ^a   Hasan, Syed Hadi ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Hexavalent chromium; Removal; Rice bran carbon; Sorption kinetics

Indexed keywords

ADSORBENT DOSE; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CARBON RATIO; COMMERCIAL ACTIVATED CARBONS; HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM; LANGMUIR ISOTHERM MODELS; PSEUDO SECOND ORDER KINETICS; PSEUDO-FIRST ORDER KINETICS; RATE OF REDUCTION; RICE BRANS; SORPTION KINETICS; TOTAL CHROMIUM;

ACTIVATED CARBON; AGRICULTURAL WASTES; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CHROMIUM; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLUTIONS;

ADSORPTION;

EID: 77956074535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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