Immobilization of mercury by carboxymethyl cellulose stabilized iron sulfide nanoparticles: Reaction mechanisms and effects of stabilizer and water chemistry

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3986-3994

  Gong, Yanyan ^a   Liu, Yuanyuan ^a,b   Xiong, Zhong ^c   Zhao, Dongye ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AMEC FOSTER WHEELER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); DYES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROGEN BONDS; IRON COMPOUNDS; ISOTHERMS; NANOPARTICLES; SORPTION;

CARBOXY-METHYL CELLULOSE; ISOTHERM MODELING; MERCURY SORPTION; PSEUDO-SECOND-ORDER KINETIC MODELS; REACTION MECHANISM; SODIUM CARBOXYMETHYL CELLULOSE; SORPTION KINETICS; SURFACE COMPLEXATION;

MERCURY (METAL);

CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; FERROUS SULFIDE; HYDROGEN; MERCURY; NANOPARTICLE; STABILIZING AGENT; WATER;

CELLULOSE; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; IMMOBILIZATION; IRON SULFIDE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PH; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REACTION KINETICS; SORPTION; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ABSORPTION; ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HYDROGEN BOND; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ION EXCHANGE; OSMOLARITY; PH; PRECIPITATION; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ADSORPTION; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE SODIUM; CHLORIDES; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; KINETICS; MERCURY; NANOPARTICLES; POWDERS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SULFIDES; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 84897554753     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es404418a     Document Type: Article

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