Mn+2 and Cd+2 removal from industrial wastewater using phillipsitic tuff from Jabal Uniza, Southern Jordan

Jordan Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 22-30

  Al Dwairi, Reyad A ^a   Gougazeh, Mousa H ^a  

^a TAFILA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Natural zeolite; Phillipsite; Phillipsitic tuff; Uniza; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; HEAVY METALS; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); METAL IONS; METALS; PARTICLE SIZE; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; ZEOLITES;

BATCH EXPERIMENTS; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; NATURAL ZEOLITES; PHILLIPSITE; PHILLIPSITIC TUFF; REMOVAL CAPACITY; UNIZA;

MANGANESE;

EID: 84872835492     PISSN: 19930461     EISSN: 2225157X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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