Effect of DOM size on organic micropollutant adsorption by GAC

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 6617-6624

  Kennedy, Anthony M ^a   Summers, R Scott ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; ORGANIC CARBON;

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; ADSORPTION KINETICS; COMPETITIVE ADSORPTION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; EMPTY BED CONTACT TIME; GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBONS; ORGANIC MICROPOLLUTANT;

ADSORPTION;

2 METHYLISOBORNEOL; ACTIVATED CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBON; ORGANIC CARBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WARFARIN; WATER; 2-METHYLISOBORNEOL; BORNANE DERIVATIVE; CHARCOAL; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; REACTION KINETICS; ULTRAFILTRATION;

ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; EMPTY BED CONTACT TIME; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN BOND; IONIC STRENGTH; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLID; SURFACE AREA; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER MICROPOLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER QUALITY; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; PROCEDURES; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ADSORPTION; BORNANES; CHARCOAL; DIFFUSION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ULTRAFILTRATION; WARFARIN; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84930630698     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00411     Document Type: Article

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