The influence of operational parameters on elimination of cyanide from wastewater using the electrocoagulation process

Desalination

Volumn 280, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 127-133

  Moussavi, Gholamreza ^a   Majidi, Farzad ^a   Farzadkia, Mahdi ^b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cyanide; Electrocoagulation process; Elimination; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

ANODE CATHODES; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CONTINUOUS OPERATION; CYANIDE REMOVAL; EFFICIENT TREATMENT; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ELECTRODE ARRANGEMENT; ELIMINATION; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; IRON-ALUMINUM; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; REMOVAL OF CYANIDE;

COAGULATION; REMOVAL; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CYANIDES;

ALUMINUM; COAGULATION; CYANIDE; ELECTRODE; IRON; RESIDENCE TIME; WASTEWATER;

EID: 80053307546     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.06.052     Document Type: Article

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