Furfural removal from liquid effluents by adsorption onto commercial activated carbon in a batch heterogeneous reactor

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 241-250

  Cuevas, Manuel ^a   Quero, Soledad Mateo ^a   Hodaifa, Gassan ^b   López, Alberto J Moya ^a   Sánchez, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Batch heterogeneous reactor; Commercial activated carbon; Furfural; Industrial wastewaters; Kinetic study

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ACTIVATION ENERGY; ADSORPTION; EFFLUENTS; FREE ENERGY; FURFURAL; SEWAGE; TEMPERATURE;

COMMERCIAL ACTIVATED CARBONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; HETEROGENEOUS REACTORS; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; KINETIC STUDY; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; PSEUDO-SECOND ORDER MODEL; THERMODYNAMIC PARAMETER;

ALDEHYDES;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REACTION KINETICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84899651571     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.03.017     Document Type: Article

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