Chromate reduction in highly alkaline groundwater by zerovalent iron: Implications for its use in a permeable reactive barrier

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4704-4714

  Fuller, Samuel J ^a   Stewart, Douglas I ^a   Burke, Ian T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC CONDITIONS; CHROMATE REDUCTIONS; CHROMITE ORE PROCESSING RESIDUES; PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS; SEM AND XPS ANALYSIS; SPECIFIC CAPACITIES; SURFACE PRECIPITATE; WIDELY USED REACTION;

CHROMATES; GROUNDWATER; IRON; PRECIPITATES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ALKALINITY;

EID: 84875798388     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie302914b     Document Type: Article

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