Turning waste into valuable resource: potential of electric arc furnace dust as photocatalytic material

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 12091-12098

  Sapina M ^a   Jimenez Relinque, E ^a   Castellote, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS DE LA CONSTRUCCIÓN EDUARDO TORROJA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electric Arc furnace dust (EAFD); NOx,,; Photocatalysis; Rhodamine B; Valorization; Waste

Indexed keywords

DUST; HAZARDOUS WASTE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; OXIDE; RHODAMINE; RHODAMINE B; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ANALYSIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; DUST; ELECTRICITY; HAZARDOUS WASTE; LIGHT; RADIATION RESPONSE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

CATALYSIS; DUST; ELECTRICITY; HAZARDOUS WASTE; LIGHT; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; OXIDES; RHODAMINES; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 84930173846     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3167-2     Document Type: Article

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