Humic acid removal by electrocoagulation using aluminium sacrificial anode under influencing operational parameters

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 52, Issue 28-30, 2014, Pages 5442-5453

  Kourdali, Sidali ^a,b   Badis, Abdelmalek ^a,b   Saiba, Ali ^a   Boucherit, Ahmed ^a   Boutoumi, Houcine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BLIDA   (Algeria)

^b CNRDPA National Centre for Research and Development of Fisheries and Aquaculture Tipaza (42)   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Aluminium electrodes; Electrocoagulation; Humic acids; Mechanisms; Surface waters

Indexed keywords

COAGULATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTRODE; HUMIC ACID; PARAMETERIZATION; SURFACE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84879589523     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2013.814003     Document Type: Article

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