Behavior of aluminum, arsenic, and vanadium during the neutralization of red mud leachate by HCl, gypsum, or seawater

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6527-6535

  Burke, Ian T ^a   Peacock, Caroline L ^a   Lockwood, Cindy L ^a   Stewart, Douglas I ^a   Mortimer, Robert J G ^a   Ward, Michael B ^a   Renforth, Philip ^b   Gruiz, Katalin ^c   Mayes, William M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID NEUTRALIZATION; CALCITE PRECIPITATION; CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; EXAFS ANALYSIS; HYDROTALCITES; OXYHYDROXIDES; PHOSPHATE SOLUTIONS; SURFACE ADSORPTION;

CALCITE; GYPSUM; LASERS; PRECIPITATES; SEAWATER;

ALUMINUM;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; CALCIUM SULFATE; CHLORIDE; SEA WATER; VANADIUM;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; GYPSUM; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; LEACHATE; NEUTRALIZATION; PH; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SAMPLING; SEAWATER; SLUDGE; VANADIUM; WASTE TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LEACHING; PH; PRECIPITATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; CALCIUM SULFATE; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; SEAWATER; VANADIUM;

AJKA; HUNGARY; VESZPREM;

EID: 84879210842     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4010834     Document Type: Article

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