Alkaline-treated cocoa pod husk as adsorbent for removing methylene blue from aqueous solutions

Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 460-465

  Pua, Fei Ling ^a   Sajab, Mohd Shaiful ^b   Chia, Chin Hua ^b   Zakaria, Sarani ^b   Rahman, Irman Abdul ^b   Salit, Mohd Sapuan ^c  

^a Universiti Tenaga Nasional   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Adsorption isotherms; Cocoa pod husk; Kinetic model; Methylene blue; Natural adsorbents

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883778898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22133437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2013.06.012     Document Type: Article

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