Electrochemical removal of tetrahydrofuran from industrial wastewaters: Anode selection and process scale-up

Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1243-1250

  Urtiaga, Ane ^a   Gómez, Pedro ^b   Arruti, Axel ^b   Ortiz, Inmaculada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b Apria Systems SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Advanced oxidation; Electrochemistry; Modelling; Waste water

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROOXIDATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; EXPERIMENTS; INDUSTRY; KINETIC PARAMETERS; KINETIC THEORY; MINERALOGY; MODELS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; RUBBER APPLICATIONS; RUTHENIUM ALLOYS;

ADVANCED OXIDATION; BENCH SCALE EXPERIMENTS; BORON DOPED DIAMOND; ELECTRO-OXIDATION PROCESS; ELECTROCHEMICAL REMOVAL; ELECTROCHEMICAL TREATMENTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; MASS TRANSFER CONTROL;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BORON DERIVATIVE; SODIUM SULFATE; TETRAHYDROFURAN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DENSITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; KINETICS; MINERALIZATION; OXIDATION; SCALE UP; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84904036629     PISSN: 02682575     EISSN: 10974660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jctb.4384     Document Type: Article

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