Nano-scale metallic iron for the treatment of solutions containing multiple inorganic contaminants
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Nano-scale metallic iron for the treatment of solutions containing multiple inorganic contaminants
Scott, T. B.; Popescu, I. C.; Crane, R. A. & Noubactep, C. (2011)
Journal of Hazardous Materials, 186(1) pp. 280-287. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.10.113
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- Scott, T. B.; Popescu, I. C.; Crane, Richard Andrew; Noubactep, C.
- Abstract
- Although contaminant removal from water using zero-valent iron nanoparticles (INP) has been investigated for a wide array of chemical pollutants, the majority of studies to date have only examined the reaction of INP in simple single-contaminant systems. Such systems fail to reproduce the complexity of environmental waters and consequently fail as environmental analogues due to numerous competitive reactions not being considered. Consequently there is a high demand for multi-elemental and site-specific studies to advance the design of INP treatment infrastructure. Here INP are investigated using batch reactor systems over a range of pH for the treatment of water containing multi-element contaminants specifically U, Cu, Cr and Mo, selected to provide site-specific analogues for leachants collected from the Lisava mine, near Oravita in South West Romania. Concurrently, a U-only solution was also analysed as a single-system for comparison. Results confirmed the suitability of nano-Fe(0) as a highly efficient reactive material for the aqueous removal of Cr(IV), Cu(II) and U(VI) over a range of pH applicable to environmental waters. Insufficient Mo(VI) removal was observed at pH > 5.7, suggesting that further studies were necessary to successfully deploy INP for the treatment of geochemically complex mine water effluents. Results also indicated that uranium removal in the multi-element system was less than for the comparator containing only uranium. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
- Issue Date
- 2011
- Status
- published
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science Bv
- Journal
- Journal of Hazardous Materials
- ISSN
- 0304-3894
- Sponsor
- NATO