Biosorption of copper from aqueous solutions by date stones and palm-trees waste

Environmental Chemistry Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-69

  Belala, Zohra ^a,b   Jeguirim, Mejdi ^c   Belhachemi, Meriem ^a,b   Addoun, Fatima ^a   Trouvé, Gwenaëlle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BECHAR   (Algeria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

Author keywords

Biosoprtion; Copper; Date stones; Kinetics; Palm trees waste; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952068022     PISSN: 16103653     EISSN: 16103661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10311-009-0247-5     Document Type: Article

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