Fruit peel waste as a novel low-cost bio adsorbent

Reviews in Chemical Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 361-381

  Pathak, Pranav D ^a   Mandavgane, Sachin A ^a   Kulkarni, Bhaskar D ^b  

^a VISVESVARAYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Adsorbent; adsorption; fruit peel waste; organic and inorganic pollutants; wastewater

Indexed keywords

ADSORBENTS; ADSORPTION; AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; COSTS; FOOD PROCESSING; HEAVY METALS; POLLUTION; REMOVAL; STRIPPING (DYES); THERMODYNAMICS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION ABILITY; FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FRUIT PEEL; GASEOUS IMPURITIES; INORGANIC POLLUTANTS; LANGMUIR AND FREUNDLICH ADSORPTION; PSEUDO SECOND ORDER KINETICS; REPRODUCIBILITIES;

FRUITS;

EID: 84938587286     PISSN: 01678299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/revce-2014-0041     Document Type: Article

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