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http://dx.doi.org/10.14481/jkges.2014.15.12.25

Removal Characteristics of Heavy Metals in Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) Using Porous Starfish Ceramics (II) - Treatment of AMD in a Column Reactor System  

Lee, Yonghwan (Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Jeonnam Provincial College)
Yim, Soobin (Department of Environmental Engineering, Kyungsung University)
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Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society / v.15, no.12, 2014 , pp. 25-34 More about this Journal
Abstract
The objective of this study was to investigate the removal characteristics and the elimination mechanism of heavy metals in Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) using spherical-type porous Zeolite-StarFish ceramics (porous ZSF ceramics) packed in a continuous column reactor system. The average removal efficiencies of heavy metals in AMD were Al 98.7, As 98.7, Cd 96.0, Cu 89.1, Fe 99.5, Mn 94.4, Pb 96.3 and Zn 80.8 % during 110 days of operation time. The average removal capacity of porous ZSF ceramics for heavy metals were measured to be Al 21.76, As 1.52, Cd 1.27, Cu 3.41, Fe 44.83, Mn 3.48, Pb 2.36 and Zn $3.76mg/kg{\cdot}day$. The analysis results of mechanism using SEM, EDS and XRD exhibited that the porous ZSF ceramics could act as a multi-functional ceramics for the removal of heavy metals in AMD through the reactions of precipitation, adsorption and ion-exchange. The experimental results of column reactor system displayed that the porous ZSF ceramics would be a consistently efficient agent for the removal of heavy metals in AMD for a long term.
Keywords
Natural zeolite; Starfish; Heavy metal; Ceramics; Acid mine drainage;
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