Removal of arsenic from groundwater by adsorption onto an acidified laterite by-product

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 228, Issue , 2013, Pages 565-574

  Glocheux, Yoann ^a   Pasarín, Martín Méndez ^a,b   Albadarin, Ahmad B ^a   Allen, Stephen J ^a   Walker, Gavin M ^a,c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Arsenic; Ferric Aluminium Sulphate; Isotherms; Kinetics; Laterite

Indexed keywords

ACID LEACHING TREATMENTS; ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; ALUMINIUM SULPHATE; ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; KINETICS EXPERIMENTS; LATERITE; PSEUDO-SECOND-ORDER KINETIC MODELS; REMOVAL OF ARSENICS;

ADSORBENTS; ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); ENZYME KINETICS; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; ISOTHERMS; KINETICS; SOILS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

ADSORPTION;

EID: 84878903212     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.05.043     Document Type: Article

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