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Effective Treatment of Wastewater from the Electroplating Plant of Cold-mill by using Microorganism  

Kim, Sang-Sik (Department of Environment & Health, Kimpo College)
Kim, Hyung-Jin (Department of Environment & Health, Kimpo College)
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Applied Chemistry for Engineering / v.20, no.3, 2009 , pp. 301-306 More about this Journal
Abstract
This research was carried out to establish the effective treatment condition and characteristic of wastewater from the electroplating plant of cold rolling mill by using microorganism. Alkaline wastewater and acidic heavy metal wastewater accounted for 64%, 30%, respectively, of the total wastewater. Highly concentrated thiocyanate was 53890 mg/L as COD and it was 53% of total COD, even though it was 0.03% of wastewater from the electroplating plant. When treating mixed wastewater with microorganism, it was easy to remove when SCN concentrations of mixed wastewater was 200 mg/L or less. While the treatment effect of COD-causing materials was low at the concentration of 400 mg/L or less, it implies that highly concentrated thiocyanate contains a large amount of slowly biodegradable organics. When treating with mixed wastewater, pH was 7.33 at the beginning, but after 8 hours it increased to 7.99. This is caused by ammonia which is generated when SCN of highly concentrated thiocyanate was degraded by microorganism.
Keywords
electroplating plant wastewater; high concentrated thiocyanate; alkali wastewater; acidic heavy metal wastewater;
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