Remediation of inorganic arsenic in groundwater for safe water supply: A critical assessment of technological solutions

Chemosphere

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 157-170

  Mondal, Priyanka ^a   Bhowmick, Subhamoy ^b,c   Chatterjee, Debashis ^c   Figoli, Alberto ^d   Van der Bruggen, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Direct contact membrane distillation; Forward osmosis; Removal technologies; Zerovalent iron

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CHEMICAL WATER TREATMENT; DISTILLATION; GROUNDWATER; ION EXCHANGE; IRON RESEARCH; OSMOSIS; WASTE TREATMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

COAGULATION FLOCCULATION; DIRECT CONTACT MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; FORWARD OSMOSIS; INTEGRATED TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE DRIVEN MEMBRANES; TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION; WATER TREATMENT PROCESS; ZERO-VALENT IRON;

MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ARSENIC; BROMATE; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; GROUND WATER; IODATE; MANGANESE DIOXIDE; OXIDE; PHOSPHATE; SULFIDE; ZIRCONIUM OXIDE;

ARSENIC; COAGULATION; DISTILLATION; DRINKING WATER; FLOCCULATION; GROUNDWATER; INTEGRATED APPROACH; ION EXCHANGE; IRON; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; OXIDATION; REMEDIATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BIOREMEDIATION; CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPLEX FORMATION; DESALINATION; DESORPTION; DISTILLATION; FLOCCULATION; ION EXCHANGE; MOBILIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OSMOSIS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXIDATION; PHOTOLYSIS; PHOTOOXIDATION; REVIEW; SEDIMENT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VOLATILIZATION; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION; ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; FLOCCULATION; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; ION EXCHANGE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; OSMOSIS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84876852617     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.01.097     Document Type: Review

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