Investigation of isothermal and fixed-bed column sorption of Cu (II) onto almond shell

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 435-441

  Aber, Soheil ^a   Ayoubi Feiz, Baharak ^a   Salari, Dariush ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Almond shell; Breakthrough curve modeling; Copper; Isotherm; Sorption

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880671791     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2013.054     Document Type: Article

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