Evaluating the adsorptive capacity of montmorillonitic and calcareous clays on the removal of several heavy metals in aqueous systems

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-46

  Sdiri, Ali ^a   Higashi, Teruo ^a   Hatta, Tamao ^b   Jamoussi, Fakher ^c   Tase, Norio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES EN SCIENCES DES MATÉRIAUX   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Adsorption isotherm; Clays; Heavy metals; Spectroscopic analyses; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; ADSORPTIVE CAPACITY; AQUEOUS SYSTEM; CONTAMINATED WASTEWATER; DUBININ-RADUSHKEVICH; EQUILIBRIUM DATA; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; FREUNDLICH; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; INFLUENCING PARAMETERS; ISOTHERM MODELS; LANGMUIR ISOTHERM; LANGMUIRS; LATE CRETACEOUS; MAGNESIUM OXIDES; NATURAL CLAYS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION; TOXIC METALS; TUNISIA; X RAY FLUORESCENCE; CALCIUM AND MAGNESIUMS;

ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; ALUMINA; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CLAY; DYES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; METALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICA; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THERMOANALYSIS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; ZINC COMPOUNDS; HEAVY METALS;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

CONIACIAN;

EID: 79961012394     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2011.05.015     Document Type: Article

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