Removal of petroleum hydrocarbons from contaminated groundwater using an electrocoagulation process: Batch and continuous experiments

Desalination

Volumn 278, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 288-294

  Moussavi, Gholamreza ^a   Khosravi, Rasoul ^a   Farzadkia, Mahdi ^b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Electrocoagulation process; Groundwater; Petroleum hydrocarbon; Petroleum contamination; Removal technique

Indexed keywords

ANODE CATHODES; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; CONTINUOUS OPERATION; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ELECTRODE ARRANGEMENT; ELECTRODE MATERIAL; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; MODE OF OPERATIONS; NEUTRAL PH; OPERATING VARIABLES; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS; PETROLEUM-CONTAMINATION; PH CONDITION; REACTION CONSTANT; TOTAL PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS;

ANODES; CATHODES; COAGULATION; CONTAMINATION; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROCARBONS; PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY; WATER TREATMENT;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

COAGULATION; ELECTRODE; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULICS; HYDROCARBON; PH; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; STEEL;

EID: 80052031436     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.05.039     Document Type: Article

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