Natural Red Earth as a low cost material for arsenic removal: Kinetics and the effect of competing ions

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 648-654

  Rajapaksha, Anushka Upamali ^a   Vithanage, Meththika ^a   Jayarathna, Lakmal ^a   Kumara, Chanaka Kapila ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC REMOVAL; AS AND AS; AS SPECIES; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; COMPETITIVE ADSORPTION; COMPETITIVE ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; DOMESTIC WATER; FT-IR SPECTRUM; KINETIC DATA; KINETIC STUDY; LANGMUIR EQUATION; LOW COSTS; MONOLAYER FORMATION; MULTILAYER ADSORPTION; NATURAL RED; PH CONTROL; PSEUDO-SECOND ORDER MODEL; RATE OF ADSORPTION; REACTION TIME; SOLID-PHASE CONCENTRATION; STRONG INTERACTION;

ARSENIC; COMPLEXATION; EXPERIMENTS; IONS; ISOTHERMS; MONOLAYERS; SPHERES; WATER FILTRATION;

ADSORPTION;

ADSORPTION; ARSENIC; COMPLEXATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EQUILIBRIUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; ISOTHERM; NITRATE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REACTION KINETICS; SUBSTRATE;

EID: 79952623972     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.01.021     Document Type: Article

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