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Industrial Wastewater Treatment Success Stories Wastewater Treatment Metals Removal Ton Nerve Gas Agent Container Rinse Waters IE was retained by a United States Army subcontractor to perform a process determination with analytical verification for the treatment of the rinse water from decontaminated nerve gas agents. The Pentagon Munitions Deconstruction Committee (PMDC) fully reviewed ...

May 7, 2007

By Integrated Engineers Inc.

Biosorption study in a mining wastewater reservoir

An in situ sorption was conducted to assess the behaviour of cations in a mining wastewater reservoir. Sorption experiments on test materials showed that biomass mainly bound uranium, copper, lead, zinc, and nickel, whereas goethite bound arsenic and chromium. Clay minerals bound both barium and rare earth elements. The lacustrine sediments mainly contained iron oxy-hydroxides. Desorption ...

Oct. 17, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

Optimizing Metals Removal

Optimizing Wastewater Metals Removal Making Wastewater Metals Insoluble for Easy Removal To remove metals from wastewater, the metals need to be insoluble (not in solution). Many facilities, such as in the plating operations, use chelating agents to keep the metals in solution thus insuring a uniform and continuous layer of plated metal. Other chelating agents come in the form of ammonia and ...

Mar. 29, 2007

By Integrated Engineers Inc.

Applicability of an electrochemical Fenton-type process to actual wastewater treatment

The applicability of an electrochemical Fenton-type process (EF-HOCl-ReFe) to the treatment of three actual wastewaters, namely wastewater from an automobile factory (automobile wastewater), metal scrap-cleansing wastewater, and municipal wastewater, is discussed in this research. The EF-HOCl-ReFe successfully removed the chemical oxygen demand (COD) from automobile wastewater pre-treated by ...

Jun. 4, 2015

By IWA Publishing

Heavy metal removal from wastewater using various adsorbents: a review

Heavy metals are discharged into water from various industries. They can be toxic or carcinogenic in nature and can cause severe problems for humans and aquatic ecosystems. Thus, the removal of heavy metals from wastewater is a serious problem. The adsorption process is widely used for the removal of heavy metals from wastewater because of its low cost, availability and eco-friendly nature. ...

Nov. 3, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Use of aquatic plants in removing heavy metals from wastewater

Phytotechnologies involving use of plants for pollutant removal gained importance during the last two decades. Terrestrial and aquatic plants possess high metal sorption capacity, and hence find their use as inexpensive materials for removing metals from environment. Aquatic biomass irrespective living or dead, exhibits capacity to remove heavy metals from wastewater. The sequestration of heavy ...

Dec. 3, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Removal of phenol from saline water by polyamine chelating resin

Removal of phenol from saline water was carried out with chelating resin. A polyamine chelating resin, Diaion CR-20, removed phenol compounds selectively from industrial wastewater containing 2% salt. From saline water containing 20 mg/L phenol, 70% of the phenol was removed. After treatment, phenol was eluted from the resin by aqueous NaOH, and the resin could also be regenerated ...

Nov. 1, 2013

By IWA Publishing

VSEP treats metal plating wastewater with no chemical addition and a filtrate well below MP&M discharge limits

A discussion of the suitability of New Logic’s patented V✧SEP Vibratory Membrane Filtration System in the treatment of wastewater from metal plating operations. Timely discussion covers the upcoming MP&M (Metal Plating and Manufacturing) regulations being formulated by the EPA as a result of the Clean Water ...

May 31, 2007

By New Logic Research, Inc.

Zinc removal from aqueous solution using novel adsorbent MISCBA

Pollution caused by heavy metals has become a serious problem to the environment nowadays. The treatment of wastewater containing heavy metals continues to receive attention because of their toxicity and negative impact on the environment. Recently, various types of adsorbents have been prepared for the uptake of heavy metals from wastewater through the batch adsorption technique. This study ...

Jun. 30, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Organic matter and heavy metal removals from complexed metal plating effluent by the combined electrocoagulation/Fenton process

In the present study, the treatment of metal plating wastewater containing complexed metals originating from the nickel and zinc plating process by electrocoagulation (EC) using stainless steel electrodes was explored. In order to improve the organic matter removal efficiency, the effect of H2O2 addition to the electrocoagulation (the combined EC/Fenton process) application was investigated. For ...

May 1, 2010

By IWA Publishing

4 Benefits of Electrocoagulation for Heavy Metal Wastewater Treatment

There is much debate in academia, as to what elements should be considered “heavy metals”. Some criteria depend on density, some on atomic number, and some on chemical behavior. In the water treatment industry, we tend to concern ourselves with the more common and more toxic variety. Such heavy metals may include mercury, cadmium, lead, chromium, and copper. Arsenic is also ...

Jul. 17, 2019

By Genesis Water Technologies, Inc.

Microscopic characteristic of biological iron sulfide composites during the generation process and the association with treatment effect on heavy metal wastewater

Heavy metal pollution is a serious environmental concern worldwide, resulting in both environmental and human harm. Recently, studies have shown that environmental biotechnologies based on sulfate reduction offer a potential for removal of toxic heavy metals. Biological iron sulfide composites are iron sulfide compounds generated in situ by sulfate-reducing bacteria. In this study, microscopic ...

Oct. 20, 2014

By IWA Publishing

Comparative evaluation of collectors for metal removal by precipitation/flotation

This paper describes a comparative evaluation of collectors for metal removal by precipitation/flotation in samples of wastewaters from an electroplating industry. Precipitation/flotation was found to be successful over a great range of pH (3-12). The toxic metal ions lead (II), nickel (II), tin (II), iron (II) and aluminium (III) were stripped from contaminated industrial samples to ...

Sep. 15, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Aluminosilicate-based adsorbent in equimolar and non-equimolar binary-component heavy metal removal systems

Cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) are toxic heavy metals commonly used in various industries. The simultaneous presence of these metals in wastewater amplifies the toxicity of wastewater and the complexity of the treatment process. This study has investigated the selective behavior of an aluminosilicate-based mesoporous adsorbent. It has been demonstrated that when equimolar quantities of the metals ...

Aug. 19, 2015

By IWA Publishing

Development of a packed-bed reactor for the recovery of metals from industrial wastewaters

Affinity separation is becoming well established for the purification and recovery of metals from industrial wastewaters. Although the method has been successfully applied on a bench-scale, there is a need for reaction engineering studies to scale-up the process for use in large-scale wastewater purification and recovery of valuable metals. In this study, a pilot-scale packed-bed reactor has been ...

Jan. 28, 2005

By Inderscience Publishers

Circuit Board Manufacturer

A circuit board manufacturer was having difficulty with copper and zinc in their wastewater stream. The metals come from etching and plating processes at the facility. Integrated Engineers treated the water with IE-061 (a metal precipitant), and Floccin-1105. The photo on the left shows untreated and treated water samples. Note the clarity of the water in the treated sample. The photo on the ...

Jan. 31, 2009

By Integrated Engineers Inc.

Irrigation of certain Mediterranean plants with heavy metals

The ability of some Mediterranean plant species to absorb heavy metals present in wastewater from treatment plants is researched. Their tolerance to high concentrations of heavy metals is also assessed. Myoporum sp., Nerium oleander and Geranium sp. were irrigated with wastewater, normal irrigation water, and irrigation water enriched with metals. The concentration of metals in the wastewater, ...

Jan. 26, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

Removal of ionic metals from wastewaters of COD determinations

Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) determinations generate highly disruptive waste streams with chromium, mercury and silver. These should follow specific waste management approaches in search of environmental and economical benefits, for which this work reports simple chemical procedures allowing toxic metal removal. Chromium(VI) is reduced to chromium(III) and total chromium is precipitated with ...

Aug. 2, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Determination of operational parameters for an Electrocoagulation/Flotation (ECF) batch reactor used in the treatment of wastewater with cadmium ions

An Electrocoagulation/Flotation (ECF) reactor was built to treat wastewater with heavy metals. Cadmium chloride was the source of metallic ions. Solutions were prepared between 10 mg/L and 30 mg/L, pH values of 8.0, 9.5 and 10.5, using lime as the coagulant. The ECF reactor was able to achieve metal removal efficiencies between 90% and 99% for all the applied current levels, after 30 min. ...

Jun. 12, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Use of various agricultural wastes for the removal of heavy metal ions

There is a need to develop innovative and alternative technologies that can remove toxic heavy metal pollutants from wastewater. In this study, two agricultural residues, cotton stalks and apricot seeds, were used to adsorb copper and lead in solutions. Sorption capacities of agricultural wastes were significantly affected by solution pH, adsorbent mass and adsorbent particle size. The adsorption ...

Oct. 17, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

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