Comparison of solar TiO2 photocatalysis and solar photo-Fenton for treatment of pesticides industry wastewater: Operational conditions, kinetics, and costs

Journal of Water Process Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue , 2015, Pages 55-63

  Gar Alalm, Mohamed ^a   Tawfik, Ahmed ^a   Ookawara, Shinichi ^b  

^a EGYPT JAPAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Egypt)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Pesticides; Photo Fenton; Photocatalysis; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942512239     PISSN: 22147144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwpe.2015.09.007     Document Type: Article

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