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Arsenic removal from groundwater using iron electrocoagulation: Effect of charge dosage rate

Susan Amrose Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA; Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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Ashok Gadgil Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA; Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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Venkat Srinivasan Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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Kristin Kowolik Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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Marc Muller Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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Jessica Huang Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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Robert Kostecki Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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Pages 1019-1030 | Received 18 Sep 2012, Published online: 10 Apr 2013

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