Enhancing toxic metal removal from acidified sludge with nitrite addition

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 6257-6263

  Du, Fangzhou ^a   Freguia, Stefano ^a   Yuan, Zhiguo ^a   Keller, Jürg ^a   Pikaar, Ilje ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; METALS; SOLUBILITY; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; ZINC;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; FREE NITROUS ACIDS; METAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ORGANIC FRACTIONS; SEQUENTIAL CHEMICAL EXTRACTION; WASTE ACTIVATED SLUDGES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

COPPER;

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; METAL; NICKEL; NITRITE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; ZINC; HEAVY METAL; NITROUS ACID; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NEW RECORD; NITRITE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLYMER; TOXIC MATERIAL; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; POLLUTANT; SEWAGE; SLUDGE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PROCEDURES; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

METALS, HEAVY; NITRITES; NITROUS ACID; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84929590914     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es504507m     Document Type: Article

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