The heterogeneous coagulation and flocculation of brewery wastewater using carbon nanotubes

Water Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1185-1197

  Simate, Geoffrey S ^a   Iyuke, Sunny E ^a   Ndlovu, Sehliselo ^a   Heydenrych, Mike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Brewery wastewater treatment; Carbon nanotubes; Chemical oxygen demand; Heterogeneous coagulation and flocculation; Turbidity; Zeta potential

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHLORINATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COAGULATION; EFFICIENCY; EFFLUENTS; FLOCCULATION; OXYGEN; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; YARN; ZETA POTENTIAL;

BREWERY WASTEWATER; BREWERY WASTEWATER TREATMENTS; CHEMICAL-OXYGEN DEMANDS; COAGULATION-FLOCCULATION PROCESS; FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES; HETEROGENEOUS COAGULATION AND FLOCCULATIONS; PARTICLES REMOVAL; PRIMARY FUNCTIONS; TREATMENT PROCESS; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS;

TURBIDITY;

CARBON NANOTUBE; FERRIC CHLORIDE;

BREWING INDUSTRY; CARBON; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COAGULATION; EFFLUENT; FLOCCULATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TURBIDITY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BREWERY WASTEWATER TREATMENT; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COAGULATION; COLLOID; EFFLUENT; FLOCCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURBIDITY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; ZETA POTENTIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84856101728     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.12.023     Document Type: Article

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