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Two-way Valorization of Blast Furnace Slag: Synthesis of Precipitated Calcium Carbonate and Zeolitic Heavy Metal Adsorbent
Published on: February 21, 2017
[The treatment industrial sewage of nonferrous heavy metals using biosorbents]
V I Zakharova1, V O Ignat'ev, A A Korenevskiĭ
1Moscow State Institute of Steel and Alloys, Moscow, 117071 Russia.
Abstract:
Producers of the antibiotics neomycin and lincomycin were most potent in sorbing nonferrous metals; they removed 99% Zn and Cd and 95% Ni. The degree of metal sorption increased with an increase in solution pH and calcium content in the biomass. Dynamic studies of biosorbents prepared from microbial biomass showed that neomycin industrial waste products are highly efficient in treating galvanic washing water. The total dynamic exchange capacities by nickel and cadmium were 6.85 and 7.16 mg/ml, respectively.
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