Polyaluminum chloride with high Al30 content as removal agent for arsenic-contaminated well water

Water Research

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-62

  Mertens, Jasmin ^a,b   Casentini, Barbara ^c   Masion, Armand ^d   Pöthig, Rosemarie ^e   Wehrli, Bernhard ^a,b   Furrer, Gerhard ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d CEREGE   (France)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Al nanocluster; Coagulation flocculation sedimentation; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CHEMICAL WATER TREATMENT; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COAGULATION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NANOCLUSTERS; PH; SILICA;

AL NANOCLUSTER; AS REMOVAL; AS(III) REMOVAL; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; COAGULATION FLOCCULATION; COAGULATION-FLOCCULATION-SEDIMENTATION; PH RANGE; POLY(ALUMINUM CHLORIDE); REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; WELL WATER;

EFFICIENCY;

ALUMINUM CHLORIDE; ARSENIC; GROUND WATER; POLYALUMINUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WELL WATER;

AGGREGATION; ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; COAGULATION; FLOCCULATION; OXIDATION; PH; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEDIMENTATION; WATER TREATMENT; WELL WATER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ARTICLE; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; CHALCIDICE [(DPR) CENTRAL MACEDONIA]; GREECE; PANNONIAN BASIN; ROMANIA;

EID: 82355191561     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.10.031     Document Type: Article

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