Copper sorption onto dried red alga Pterocladia capillacea and its activated carbon

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 707-714

  El Sikaily, Amany ^a   El Nemr, Ahmed ^a   Khaled, Azza ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Copper sorption; Error functions; Freundlich; Ion exchange model; Langmuir; Pterocladia capillacea; Red algae

Indexed keywords

ERROR FUNCTIONS; FREUNDLICH; ION EXCHANGE MODEL; LANGMUIRS; PTEROCLADIA CAPILLACEA; RED ALGAE;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; ALGAE; COPPER; GALLIUM ALLOYS; IONS; ISOTHERMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ION EXCHANGE;

PTEROCLADIELLA CAPILLACEA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 79953321783     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2011.01.064     Document Type: Article

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