Sustainable engineered processes to mitigate the global arsenic crisis in drinking water: Challenges and progress

Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages 497-517

  Sarkar, Sudipta ^a   Greenleaf, John E ^a   Gupta, Anirban ^b   Uy, Davin ^c   Sengupta, Arup K ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF CAMBODIA   (Cambodia)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Groundwater; Hybrid anion exchanger; Hydrated iron oxide; India; Ion exchange; Lewis acid base interaction; Sludge disposal; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SOURCE; ANION EXCHANGERS; ARSENIC REMEDIATIONS; BANGLADESH; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS; INDIA; LEWIS ACID-BASE INTERACTION; RAW WATER; SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GROUNDWATER; ION EXCHANGE; IRON OXIDES; REMEDIATION; SLUDGE DISPOSAL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; FERRIC ION; FERRIC OXIDE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ADSORPTION; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMISTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FILTRATION; INDIA; ION EXCHANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; OSMOSIS; REVIEW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADSORPTION; ARSENIC; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DRINKING WATER; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FILTRATION; INDIA; ION EXCHANGE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; OSMOSIS; SILICON DIOXIDE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84862681922     PISSN: 19475438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-062011-081101     Document Type: Review

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