Nitrate reduction over a Pd-Cu/MWCNT catalyst: Application to a polluted groundwater

Environmental Technology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 2353-2358

  Soares, Olvia Salomé G P ^a   Órfo, José J M ^a   Gallegos Suarez, Esteban ^b   Castillejos, Eva ^b   Rodríguez Ramos, Inmaculada ^b   Pereira, Manuel Fernando R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE CATÁLISIS Y PETROLEOQUÍMICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; groundwater; nitrate reduction; organic and inorganic matter; Pd Cu

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DEIONIZED WATER; GROUNDWATER; NITRATES;

CATALYST PERFORMANCE; CATALYTIC REDUCTION; GROUNDWATER COMPOSITION; INORGANIC MATTERS; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; NEGATIVE INFLUENCE; NITRATE REDUCTION; PD-CU; PD-CU CATALYST; PHOSPHATE IONS; SULPHATE ION; WATER AS SOLVENT;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

CHLORIDE; COPPER; GROUND WATER; INORGANIC COMPOUND; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NITRATE; ORGANIC MATTER; PALLADIUM; PHOSPHATE; SOLVENT; SULFATE;

CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COPPER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; INORGANIC MATTER; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITRATE; ORGANIC MATTER; PALLADIUM; REDUCTION; SOLUTE; SOLVENT; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); NANOCATALYST; PARTICLE SIZE; REDUCTION; SIMULATION; SOLUTE; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84870060492     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2012.668945     Document Type: Article

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