Montmorillonite-supported nanoscale zero-valent iron for removal of arsenic from aqueous solution: Kinetics and mechanism

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 243, Issue , 2014, Pages 14-23

  Bhowmick, Subhamoy ^a,b   Chakraborty, Sudipta ^c   Mondal, Priyanka ^d   Van Renterghem, Wouter ^e   Van den Berghe, Sven ^e   Roman Ross, Gabriela ^f   Chatterjee, Debashis ^b   Iglesias, Mònica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

^c Kanchrapara College   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^f AMPHOS 21 CONSULTING S L   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Arsenic; Montmorillonite; Nano zero valent iron

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; CATALYZED OXIDATION; KINETICS AND MECHANISM; LANGMUIR ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; NANO ZERO-VALENT IRONS; NANOSCALE ZERO-VALENT IRON; POTENTIAL ADSORBENTS; PSEUDO-SECOND ORDER RATES;

ARSENIC; CLAY MINERALS; GROUNDWATER; IRON; NANOTECHNOLOGY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ADSORPTION;

EID: 84892847758     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.12.049     Document Type: Article

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