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http://dx.doi.org/10.7464/ksct.2021.27.2.168

Application of Ferrate (VI) for Selective Removal of Cyanide from Plated Wastewater  

Yang, Seung-Hyun (Department of convergence engineering, Graduate school of Venture, Hoseo University)
Kim, Younghee (Department of convergence engineering, Graduate school of Venture, Hoseo University)
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Clean Technology / v.27, no.2, 2021 , pp. 168-173 More about this Journal
Abstract
The treatment of plated wastewater is subject to various and complex processes depending on the pH, heavy metal, and cyanide content of the wastewater. Alkali chlorine treatment using NaOCl is commonly used for cyanide treatment. However, if ammonia and cyanide are present simultaneously, NaOCl is consumed excessively to treat ammonia. To solve this problem, this study investigated 1) the consumption of NaOCl according to ammonia concentration in the alkaline chlorine method and 2) whether ferrate (VI) could selectively treat the cyanide. Experiments using simulated wastewater showed that the higher the ammonia concentration, the lower the cyanide removal rate, and the linear increase in NaOCl consumption according to the ammonia concentration. Removal of cyanide using ferrate (VI) confirmed the removal of cyanide regardless of ammonia concentration. Moreover, the removal rate of ammonia was low, so it was confirmed that the ferrate (VI) selectively eliminated the cyanide. The cyanide removal efficiency of ferrate (VI) was higher with lower pH and showed more than 99% regardless of the ferrate (VI) injection amount. The actual application to plated wastewater showed a high removal ratio of over 99% when the input mole ratio of ferrate (VI) and cyanide was 1:1, consistent with the molarity of the stoichiometry reaction method, which selectively removes cyanide from actual wastewater containing ammonia and other pollutants like the result of simulated wastewater.
Keywords
Ferrate (VI); Cyanide(CN); Ammonia($NH_3-N$); Selective removal; Plating wastewater;
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