Using light scattering to screen polyelectrolytes (PEL) performance in flocculation

Polymers

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 915-927

  Rasteiro, Maria G ^a   Pinheiro, Ineide ^a   Garcia, Fernando A P ^a   Ferreira, Paulo ^a   Hunkeler, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b AQUA+TECH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Light diffraction spectroscopy (LDS); Polyacrilamides

Indexed keywords

ACRYLAMIDES; AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; CATIONIC POLYACRYLAMIDES; DEGREE OF BRANCHING; INTRINSIC VISCOSITY; KINETIC CURVES; LIGHT DIFFRACTION; LIGHT DIFFRACTION SPECTROSCOPY (LDS); POLYACRILAMIDES; POLYMER CONFORMATION; PRECIPITATED CALCIUM CARBONATE; REFLOCCULATION; STRUCTURE EVOLUTION;

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; AMIDES; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIFFRACTION; FRACTAL DIMENSION; POLYELECTROLYTES;

FLOCCULATION;

EID: 79960200928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym3020915     Document Type: Article

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