Removal of noxious Cr (VI) ions using single-walled carbon nanotubes and multi-walled carbon nanotubes

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 279, Issue , 2015, Pages 344-352

  Dehghani, Mohammad Hadi ^a   Taher, Mahdieh Mohammad ^a   Bajpai, Anil Kumar ^b   Heibati, Behzad ^a,c   Tyagi, Inderjeet ^d   Asif, Mohammad ^e   Agarwal, Shilpi ^d   Gupta, Vinod Kumar ^d,f,g  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b GOVERNMENT SCIENCE COLLEGE   (India)

^c MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^e KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adsorption isotherm; Chromium; MWCNTs; SWCNTs

Indexed keywords

ADSORBENTS; ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; CARBON; CHROMIUM; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; DYES; IONS; LINEAR REGRESSION; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YARN;

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; ADSORPTION EQUILIBRIA; ION CONCENTRATIONS; LANGMUIR ISOTHERM MODELS; LINEAR REGRESSION METHODS; MWCNTS; PSEUDO SECOND ORDER; SWCNTS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84929999264     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2015.04.151     Document Type: Article

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