Adsorption of mercury ions from synthetic and real wastewater aqueous solution by functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotube with both amino and thiolated groups

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 237, Issue , 2014, Pages 217-228

  Hadavifar, Mojtaba ^a   Bahramifar, Nader ^a,b   Younesi, Habibollah ^a   Li, Qin ^c  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b PAYAME NOOR UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Functionalized MWCNTs; Kinetics; Mercury adsorption; Thermodynamic parameters; Thiol functional group

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ENZYME KINETICS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IONS; KINETICS; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; NANOTUBES; PHYSISORPTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

BATCH ADSORPTION EXPERIMENTS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA RED (FTIR) SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONALIZED MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; FUNCTIONALIZED MWCNTS; MERCURY ADSORPTION; PSEUDO-SECOND ORDER RATES; THERMODYNAMIC PARAMETER; THIOL FUNCTIONAL GROUPS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84887005502     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.10.014     Document Type: Article

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