Macroalgae as lead trapping agents in industrial effluents - a factorial design analysis
A two-level factorial design was employed to analyze the influence of agitation, contact time, amount of algae and type of pretreatment on heavy metal removal by Arribadas algae, in a batch system consisting of a synthetic solution simulating a typical effluent from battery manufacturing processes. Dried, ground and sieved 4 g algae samples were able to remove 99 % lead from 100 mL samples of synthetic effluent. Maximum removals for zinc and iron were 37 % and 80 %, respectively. Lead removal using this method is potentially useful for large-scale industrial applications, because Arribadas algae are cheap, abundant, naturally occurring waste materials.
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Formato: | Digital revista |
Idioma: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Química
2001
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Acceso en línea: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-50532001000400010 |
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