Sorption potential of modified nanocrystals for the removal of aromatic organic pollutant from aqueous solution

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 350-357

  Alila, Sabrine ^a   Aloulou, Fadhel ^c   Thielemans, Wim ^b   Boufi, Sami ^a  

^a University of Sfax   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES EN SCIENCES DES MATÉRIAUX   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Column; Organic solute; Starch nanocrystals

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; ADSORPTION KINETICS; ADSORPTION-DESORPTION CYCLES; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; AROMATIC ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMICALLY MODIFIED; COLUMN; CONTINUOUS FLOWS; FIXED BED COLUMNS; LANGMUIR MODELS; NANOMETRICS; ORGANIC SOLUTES; SORPTION POTENTIAL; STARCH NANOCRYSTALS; TWO-STEP PROCESS;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; AROMATIZATION; DESORPTION; DYES; ETHANOL; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; STARCH;

ADSORPTION;

ADSORPTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; ETHANOL; ISOTHERM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; SOLUTE; STARCH;

EID: 78651513269     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2010.11.010     Document Type: Article

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