Enhanced chromium (VI) removal using activated carbon modified by zero valent iron and silver bimetallic nanoparticles

Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kakavandi, Babak ^a   Kalantary, Roshanak Rezaei ^b   Farzadkia, Mahdi ^b   Mahvi, Amir Hossein ^c   Esrafili, Ali ^b   Azari, Ali ^c   Yari, Ahmad Reza ^d   Javid, Allah Bakhsh ^e  

^a AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d QOM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e SHAHROUD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Activated carbon; Adsorption; Bimetallic; Chromium; NZVI

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CHROMIUM; IRON; NANOPARTICLE; SILVER; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84920997506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2052336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40201-014-0115-5     Document Type: Article

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