Removal of silver and lead ions from water wastes using Azolla filiculoides, an aquatic plant, which adsorbs and reduces the ions into the corresponding metallic nanoparticles under microwave radiation in 5 min

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 218, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 365-370

  Elmachliy, Smadar ^a   Chefetz, Benny ^b   Tel Or, Elisha ^b   Vidal, Lorena ^c   Canals, Antonio ^c   Gedanken, Aharon ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aquatic plants; Heavy metal ions; Metallic nanoparticles; Microwave radiation; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION AND REDUCTION; AQUATIC PLANTS; AZOLLA FILICULOIDES; CLEAN WATERS; CONTAMINATED WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; GLUCURONIC ACIDS; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; LEAD IONS; MASS BALANCE; METALLIC IONS; METALLIC LEADS; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; METALLIC SILVER; MICROWAVE RADIATIONS; MICROWAVE REACTIONS; PISTIA STRATIOTES; PLANT MATERIAL; PLANT MATRIX; SILVER PARTICLES; SIZE RANGES; SPHERICAL SHAPE; SUGAR ALCOHOLS; WATER WASTES; WATERBODIES;

ADSORPTION; GLUCOSE; HEAVY METALS; HEAVY WATER; LEAD REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); METAL IONS; MICROWAVES; NANOPARTICLES; RADIATION; REDUCING AGENTS; REDUCTION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER RECYCLING;

SILVER;

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALPHA GLUCURONIC ACID; GLUCURONIC ACID; LEAD; LEAD NANOPARTICLE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; PECTIN; SILVER; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; SUGAL ALCOHOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ADSORPTION; AQUATIC PLANT; ION; IRRADIATION; LEAD; MICROWAVE RADIATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SILVER; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; AQUATIC FLORA; ARTICLE; AZOLLA FILICULOIDES; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; HIGHER PLANT; MASS BALANCE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PISTIA STRATIOTES; REDUCTION; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

AZOLLA; AZOLLA FILICULOIDES; PISTIA STRATIOTES;

EID: 80053517130     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-010-0650-3     Document Type: Article

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