Practical considerations, column studies and natural organic material competition for fluoride removal with bone char and aluminum amended materials in the Main Ethiopian Rift Valley

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 488-489, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 580-587

  Brunson, Laura R ^a   Sabatini, David A ^a  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Fluoride; Natural organic material; Rapid small scale column test; Sulfate competition

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED ALUMINA; ACTIVATED CARBON; BONE; COATED MATERIALS; GROUNDWATER; OXIDES; POTABLE WATER;

ETHIOPIAN RIFT VALLEY; FLUORIDE; LABORATORY COLUMNS; MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT; NATURAL GROUNDWATER; NATURAL ORGANIC MATERIALS; RAPID SMALL-SCALE COLUMN TESTS; STATISTICAL EVIDENCE;

FLUORINE COMPOUNDS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; FLUORIDE; GROUND WATER; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SORBENT; SULFATE;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; FLUORIDE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SULFATE;

ALUMINUM OXIDE COATED BONE CHAR; ALUMINUM OXIDE IMPREGNATED WOOD CHAR; ARTICLE; BINDING COMPETITION; BONE CHAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHIOPIA; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; MATERIALS; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID SCALE SMALL COLUMN TEST; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WOOD CHAR;

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; ETHIOPIAN RIFT;

DRINKING WATER; FLUORIDE; NATURAL ORGANIC MATERIAL; RAPID SMALL SCALE COLUMN TEST; SULFATE COMPETITION;

ALUMINUM; BONE AND BONES; CHARCOAL; ETHIOPIA; FLUORIDES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84901676715     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.12.048     Document Type: Article

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