Assessing the effect of Humic Acid redox state on organic pollutant sorption by combined electrochemical reduction and sorption experiments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3882-3890

  Aeschbacher, Michael ^a   Brunner, Sibyl H ^a   Schwarzenbach, René P ^a   Sander, Michael ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-NAPHTHOLS; ACETOPHENONES; CONCENTRATION-DEPENDENT; ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIONS; HUMIC ACID; LEONARDITES; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; NON-IONIC ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; NONIONIC; ORGANOCATIONS; OXIC CONDITIONS; REDOX STATE; REDOX-ACTIVE; REDUCED SOILS; SOILS AND SEDIMENTS; SORPTION CAPACITIES; SORPTION EXPERIMENTS; SORPTION ISOTHERMS; SORPTION MODELS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; EXPERIMENTS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HERBICIDES; KETONES; NAPHTHALENE; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PHENOLS; REDOX REACTIONS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SORPTION;

2 NAPHTHOL; 2,6 DICHLOROPHENOLINDOPHENOL; ACETOPHENONE; HUMIC ACID; LEONARDITE HUMIC ACID; NAPHTHALENE; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER; PARAQUAT; QUINOLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMIC ACID; ISOTHERM; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; OXIC CONDITIONS; REDUCTION; SORPTION;

ARTICLE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ISOTHERM; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PH; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; REDUCTION; SORPTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ADSORPTION; CARBON; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; ELECTRONS; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; KINETICS; MINERALS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84859312821     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es204496d     Document Type: Article

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