Experimental study of zero-valent iron induced nitrobenzene reduction in groundwater: The effects of pH, iron dosage, oxygen and common dissolved anions

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 184, Issue , 2012, Pages 198-204

  Yin, Weizhao ^a,b,c   Wu, Jinhua ^a,b,c   Li, Ping ^a,b,c   Wang, Xiangde ^a,b,c   Zhu, Nengwu ^a,b,c   Wu, Pingxiao ^a,b,c   Yang, Bo ^d  

^a The Key Laboratory of Environmental Protection   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anions; Nitrobenzene; Reduction; Zero valent iron

Indexed keywords

AIR-WATER SYSTEM; ANAEROBIC SYSTEMS; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HUMIC ACID; INITIAL PH; INITIAL PH VALUE; INITIAL SOLUTION; INNER SPHERE COMPLEXES; IRON SURFACE; PSEUDO-FIRST ORDER KINETICS; PSEUDO-ZERO-ORDER KINETICS; RATE CONSTANT K; REDUCTION PROCESS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; ZERO-VALENT IRON; ZEROVALENT IRONS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GROUNDWATER; IONS; IRON OXIDES; NEGATIVE IONS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; NITROBENZENE; ORGANIC ACIDS; PH EFFECTS; RATE CONSTANTS; REDUCTION; SPHERES;

IRON;

EID: 84857033327     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2012.01.030     Document Type: Article

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