Novel pebble bed photocatalytic reactor for solar treatment of textile wastewater

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 184, Issue , 2012, Pages 90-97

  Rao, Nageswara Neti ^a   Chaturvedi, Vibha ^b   Li Puma, Gianluca ^c  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Krishna Engineering College   (India)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

P 25 Titanium dioxide; Photoreactor; Reactive dyes; Solar photocatalysis; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

COLOR REDUCTION; DYEING WASTEWATER; FIRST ORDER KINETICS; FIRST-ORDER RATE CONSTANTS; FLAT SURFACES; LOW COSTS; ORDERED CONFIGURATION; PEBBLE BEDS; PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTORS; PHOTOREACTORS; REACTIVE BLACK 5; REACTIVE DYES; REACTIVE ORANGE 16; REACTIVE RED; REACTIVE RED 2; REACTOR EFFICIENCY; SOLAR PHOTOCATALYSIS; TEXTILE WASTEWATER; TIO; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VINYL SULFONES;

DIES; EFFLUENTS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; RATE CONSTANTS; SILICA; TEXTILES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WATER TREATMENT;

PEBBLE BED REACTORS;

EID: 84857035432     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2012.01.004     Document Type: Article

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