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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
Study on the simultaneous removal of fluoride, heavy metals and nitrate by calcium precipitating strain Acinetobacter
Zizhen Wu1, Junfeng Su1, Amjad Ali1
1School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710055, China; Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Environmental Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710055, China.
Abstract:
The removal properties and mechanisms of fluoride (F-) and nickel (Ni2+) were studied by biomineralizing bacteria (Acinetobacter sp. H12). The results showed that the removal ratio of F-, Ca2+ and Ni2+ reached 75% (0.031 mg·L-1·h-1), 84.96% (2.123 mg·L-1·h-1), and 56.67% (0.024 mg·L-1·h-1) after 72 h, respectively. The removal ratio of nitrate (NO3-) reached 100% (0.686 mg·L-1·h-1) after 24 h. SEM and XRD images indicated that bioprecipitation of CaF2, Ca5(PO4)3F, Ca5(PO4)3(OH), NiCO3, CaCO3 and Ni were formed, and some of these precipitation used bacteria as nucleation sites to form biological crystal seeds. N2 was the primary product in gas chromatography analysis. Meanwhile, both the fluorescence spectroscopy and fourier transform near-infrared spectroscopy analysis proved that strain H12 had good ability to remove fluoride and nickel ions simultaneously.
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