Adsorptive Removal of Nitrate and Phosphate from Water by a Purolite Ion Exchange Resin and Hydrous Ferric Oxide Columns in Series

Separation Science and Technology (Philadelphia)

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1785-1792

  Das Gupta, M ^a   Loganathan, P ^a   Vigneswaran, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

adsorption; break through curves; hydrous ferric oxide; ion exchange resin; nitrate; phosphate; purolite; wastewater; water pollution

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION MAXIMA; ADSORPTION PROCESS; ADSORPTIVE REMOVAL; ANION EXCHANGE RESINS; BATCH ADSORPTION EXPERIMENTS; BATCH STUDIES; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; COLUMN STUDY; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; HYDROUS FERRIC OXIDES; LANGMUIR ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; PUROLITE; SYNTHETIC WATERS;

ADSORBENTS; ADSORPTION; EFFLUENTS; EUTROPHICATION; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH HAZARDS; ION EXCHANGE RESINS; IRON OXIDES; NITRATES; PHOSPHATES; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

EID: 84864718194     PISSN: 01496395     EISSN: 15205754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01496395.2012.658487     Document Type: Article

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