Treatment of synthetic petroleum refinery wastewater in a continuous electro-oxidation process

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 51, Issue 34-36, 2013, Pages 6580-6591

  Al Malack, Muhammad H ^a   Siddiqui, Mahmood ^b  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Engineering and Technology Services   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Current density; Electro oxidation; Oil; Petroleum wastewater; Phenol; Stainless steel electrodes

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTRODE; OXIDATION; PETROLEUM; REFINING INDUSTRY; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84887110643     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2013.767215     Document Type: Article

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