Nitrate removal from water using functionalized carbon nanotube sheets

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1815-1822

  Ahmadzadeh Tofighy, Maryam ^a   Mohammadi, Toraj ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Carbon nanotube sheets; Functionalization; Isotherm; Kinetic; Nitrate

Indexed keywords

ADSORBENT DOSAGE; ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; ADSORPTION CHARACTERISTIC; CARBON NANOTUBE SHEETS; COMMERCIAL ACTIVATED CARBONS; CONCENTRATED NITRIC ACID; CONTACT TIME; CYCLOHEXANOL; FERROCENES; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED; FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES; KINETIC MODELS; LIQUID AMMONIA; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; NITRATE REMOVAL; NITROGEN ATMOSPHERES; POTENTIAL ADSORBENTS; REGENERATION PERFORMANCE;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORBENTS; ADSORPTION; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; IRON COMPOUNDS; ISOTHERMS; KINETICS; NITRATES; NITRIC ACID; ORGANOMETALLICS;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

EID: 84868367603     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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