Removal of selenium from water with nanoscale zero-valent iron: Mechanisms of intraparticle reduction of Se(IV)

Water Research

Volumn 71, Issue , 2015, Pages 274-281

  Ling, Lan ^a,b   Pan, Bingcai ^a,c   Zhang, Wei xian ^a,b  

^a State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Selenium; Spherical aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (Cs STEM); Wastewater; X ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS); Zero valent iron

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ADSORPTION; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); DIFFUSION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; IRON OXIDES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SURFACE DEFECTS;

% REDUCTIONS; ABERRATION-CORRECTED SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; INTRAPARTICLE; NANO-SCALE ZERO VALENT IRONS; NANOSCALE ZERO-VALENT IRON; SPHERICAL ABERRATION CORRECTED SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (CS-STEM); SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; X-RAY ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; ZERO-VALENT IRON;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

IRON NANOPARTICLE; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; WATER; IRON; NANOPARTICLE; SELENIUM; WATER POLLUTANT;

IRON; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SELENIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DIFFUSION; NANOENCAPSULATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; REDUCTION KINETICS; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; X RAY ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PROCEDURES; SPECTROMETRY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

IRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; NANOPARTICLES; SELENIUM; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84921478171     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.01.002     Document Type: Article

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