Potential use of rice starch in coagulation-flocculation process of agro-industrial wastewater: Treatment performance and flocs characterization

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 509-519

  Teh, Chee Yang ^a   Wu, Ta Yeong ^a   Juan, Joon Ching ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Alum; Coagulant; Flocculant; Palm oil mill effluent (POME); Rice starch; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

COAGULATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; FLOCCULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PALM OIL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ALUM; COAGULANT; FLOCCULANT; PALM OIL MILL EFFLUENTS; RICE STARCH;

STARCH; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AGROINDUSTRY; COAGULATION; EFFLUENT; FLOCCULATION; RICE; STARCH; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; SUSPENDED LOAD; VEGETABLE OIL; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84905403249     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.07.005     Document Type: Article

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