Synthesize and characterization of rice husk silica to remove the hydrogen sulfide through the physical filtration system

Asian Journal of Scientific Research

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 246-254

  Mehdinia, Seyed Mahmoud ^a   Latif, Puziah Abdul ^a   Abdullah, Ahmad Makmom ^a   Taghipour, Hassan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Empty bed residence time; Regenerated rice husk silica; Removal capacity; Removal efficiency; Scanning electron microscope

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054970803     PISSN: 19921454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/ajsr.2011.246.254     Document Type: Article

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