Shaddock peel as a novel low-cost adsorbent for removal of methylene blue from dye wastewater

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 39, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 70-75

  Liang, Junqian ^a,b,c   Wu, Jinhua ^a,b,c   Li, Ping ^a,b,c   Wang, Xiangde ^a,b,c   Yangb, Bo ^d  

^a The Key Lab of Environmental Prot and Eco Remediation of Guangdong Regular Higher Education Inst   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Dye wastewater; Kinetics; Low cost adsorbent; Methylene blue; Shaddock peel

Indexed keywords

CITRUS MAXIMA;

EID: 85025312621     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2012.669160     Document Type: Article

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