Studies on the recovery of uranium from nuclear industrial effluent using nanoporous silica adsorbent

International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 629-636

  Sepehrian, H ^a   Samadfam, M ^b   Asadi, Z ^b  

^a NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anions interference; Langmuir and Freundlich models; Uranium adsorption

Indexed keywords

BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CONTACT TIME; FAST PROCESS; FLUORIDE ION; FREUNDLICH MODELS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; INITIAL CONCENTRATION; LANGMUIRS; NANO-POROUS; NANOPOROUS SILICA; OPTIMUM PH; PHOSPHATE ANIONS; PHOSPHATE IONS; SORPTION ISOTHERMS; SORPTION RATE; URANIUM ADSORPTION; URANIUM CONVERSION FACILITIES;

ADSORPTION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; IONS; PH EFFECTS; RECOVERY; SEWAGE; SILICA;

URANIUM;

EID: 84866118610     PISSN: 17351472     EISSN: 17352630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13762-012-0065-3     Document Type: Article

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