Exploring sustainability of aquifers based on predictive modeling of sorption characteristics of arsenic enriched Holocene sediments in Bangladesh

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 636-647

  Tauhid Ur Rahman, M ^a,b   Mano, Akira ^b   Udo, Keiko ^b   Ishibashi, Yoshinobu ^c  

^a SHAHJALAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION/DESORPTION; AL OXIDE; AL-CONCENTRATION; BANGLADESH; BATCH ADSORPTION; COLUMN TEST; DISSOLUTION RATES; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FLOWTHROUGH; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS; HOLOCENES; IN-SITU; MASS BALANCE; NATURAL ADSORBENTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PARAMETRIC EQUATION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PREDICTIVE MODELING; RELEASE PROCESS; SAFE WATER; SEDIMENT WATER INTERFACE; SEM; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; SHALLOW AQUIFERS; SHALLOWER AQUIFERS; SORPTION CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES; TEM; XRD;

ADSORBENTS; ADSORPTION; ALGEBRA; ALUMINUM; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; DISSOLUTION; FILTRATION; HYDROGEOLOGY; LEACHING; REACTION RATES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; AQUIFER POLLUTION; ARSENIC; DISSOLUTION; HOLOCENE; MASS BALANCE; MOBILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PH; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; SHALLOW WATER; SORPTION;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 79952696491     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.01.020     Document Type: Article

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