Alkaline pre-treatment of waste chestnut shell from a food industry to enhance cadmium, copper, lead and zinc ions removal

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 184, Issue , 2012, Pages 147-155

  Vázquez, Gonzalo ^a   Mosquera, Olga ^a   Freire, M Sonia ^a   Antorrena, Gervasio ^a   González álvarez, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Characterisation; Chestnut shell; Metal cations; Pre treatment

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; ADSORPTION PROCESS; CADMIUM ADSORPTION; CADMIUM IONS; CASTANEA SATIVA; CHARACTERISATION; CHESTNUT SHELL; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY; EQUILIBRIUM DATA; FOOD INDUSTRIES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROMETRY; FREUNDLICH MODELS; HYDROXYL GROUPS; METAL CATIONS; NAOH CONCENTRATION; OPERATING CONDITION; PRE-TREATMENT; PSEUDO-SECOND-ORDER KINETIC MODELS; ZINC IONS;

ADSORPTION; ALKALINITY; CADMIUM; COPPER; FRUITS; LEAD; POSITIVE IONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); WASTE TREATMENT; ZINC;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS;

CASTANEA SATIVA;

EID: 84857033198     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2012.01.019     Document Type: Article

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