Chemically modified silica gel with thiol group as an adsorbent for retention of some toxic soft metal ions from water and industrial effluent

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 426-432

  Najafi, M ^a   Rostamian, R ^b   Rafati, A A ^b  

^a HAMEDAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Error function; Isotherm models; Thiol modified silica gel; Toxic ion removal; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

ADSORBENT MATERIALS; ADSORPTION DATA; ADSORPTION PROCESS; BEST FIT; CHEMICALLY MODIFIED SILICA-GEL; CONTACT TIME; DISTILLED WATER; ERROR FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FREUNDLICH; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONALIZED SILICA; HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATION; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; IONS ADSORPTION; ISOTHERM DATA; ISOTHERM MODELS; KINETIC MODELS; LANGMUIRS; MODEL EQUATIONS; MODIFIED SILICA GEL; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; PETERSON; POWDER X RAY DIFFRACTION; PROCESS VARIABLES; PSEUDO SECOND ORDER; PSEUDO-SECOND-ORDER KINETIC MODELS; REDLICH-PETERSON ISOTHERMS; SOFT METALS; SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION; TEMKIN ISOTHERM; THIOL GROUPS; THIOL MODIFIED SILICA GEL; TOXIC ION REMOVAL;

ADSORPTION; DRIERS (MATERIALS); DYES; ERROR ANALYSIS; ISOTHERMS; KINETIC THEORY; LEAD; MERCURY (METAL); METAL IONS; METALS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SEWAGE; SILICA; SILICA GEL; TOXIC MATERIALS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EFFLUENTS;

EID: 79952453866     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.12.064     Document Type: Article

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