Lepidocrocite and its heat-treated forms as effective arsenic adsorbents in aqueous medium

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 180, Issue , 2012, Pages 159-169

  Repo, Eveliina ^a   Mäkinen, Marko ^a   Rengaraj, Selvaraj ^b   Natarajan, Gomathi ^c   Bhatnagar, Amit ^d   Sillanpää, Mika ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Arsenic; Lepidocrocite; Metal removal; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

ADSORBENT DOSE; ADSORPTION EQUILIBRIA; ADSORPTION KINETICS; ADSORPTION POTENTIAL; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; AQUEOUS MEDIUM; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CONTACT TIME; INITIAL CONCENTRATION; LEPIDOCROCITE; MAGHEMITES; MESOPOROUS; METAL REMOVAL; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; PSEUDO-SECOND ORDER MODEL; SOLUTION PH; UPTAKE CAPACITY;

ADSORBENTS; ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; ARSENIC; DYES; HEMATITE; IRON ORES; PH EFFECTS;

WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84455205492     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2011.11.030     Document Type: Article

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