Aging characteristics and reactivity of two types of nanoscale zero-valent iron particles (FeBH and FeH2) in nitrate reduction

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 197, Issue , 2012, Pages 16-23

  Kim, Hong Seok ^a   Kim, Taeho ^a   Ahn, Jun Young ^a   Hwang, Kyung Yup ^a   Park, Joo Yang ^b   Lim, Teik Thye ^c   Hwang, Inseong ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aging model; Core shell structure; Nanoscale zero valent iron; Nitrate

Indexed keywords

AGING CHARACTERISTICS; AGING MODELS; AGING PRODUCTS; AIR-STABLE; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; CORE SHELL STRUCTURE; MINERAL PHASIS; NANOPARTICLE SURFACE; NANOSCALE ZERO-VALENT IRON; NITRATE REDUCTION; SHELL LAYERS;

EXPERIMENTS; IRON; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITRATES; PASSIVATION; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84863195875     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2012.05.018     Document Type: Article

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