Orthophosphate removal from domestic wastewater using limestone and granular activated carbon

Desalination

Volumn 271, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 265-272

  Hussain, Sabir ^a,b   Aziz, Hamidi Abdul ^b   Isa, Mohamed Hasnain ^c   Ahmad, Anees ^d   Van Leeuwen, John ^a   Zou, Linda ^a   Beecham, Simon ^a   Umar, Muhammad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

^d Universiti Sains Malaysia   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Domestic wastewater; Granular activated carbon; Limestone; Orthophosphate

Indexed keywords

ADSORBENT DOSAGE; ADSORPTION BEHAVIOR; ADSORPTION ISOTHERM MODEL; ALKALINE PH; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; COLUMN STUDY; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; FREUNDLICH; GOOD CORRELATIONS; GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBONS; INITIAL CONCENTRATION; LANGMUIR ISOTHERM; OPTIMUM CONDITIONS; ORTHOPHOSPHATE; PSEUDO SECOND ORDER KINETICS; RECEIVING WATERS; SATURATION TIME;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORBENTS; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; ALKALINITY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DYES; EUTROPHICATION; EXPERIMENTS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; LIMESTONE; PH EFFECTS; WASTEWATER;

ADSORPTION;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; EUTROPHICATION; KINETICS; LIMESTONE; PH; WASTEWATER;

EID: 79952241404     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2010.12.046     Document Type: Article

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