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http://dx.doi.org/10.9719/EEG.2019.52.6.529

Characteristics of Removal and Precipitation of Heavy Metals with pH change of Artificial Acid Mine Drainage  

Lee, Min Hyeon (Center for Technology Policy, Future Resources Institute,)
Kim, Young Hun (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Andong National University)
Kim, Jeong Jin (Department of Environmental Engineering, Andong National University)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.52, no.6, 2019 , pp. 529-539 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, heavy metal removal and precipitation characteristics with pH change were studied for artificial acid mine drainage. Artificial acid mine drainage was prepared using sulfates of iron, aluminum, copper, zinc, manganese which contained in acid mine drainage from abandoned mines. The single and mixed five heavy metal samples of Fe, Al, Cu, Zn, and Mn were prepared at initial concentrations of 30 and 70 mg/L. Fe and Al were mostly removed at pH 4.0 and 5.0, respectively, and other heavy metals gradually decreased with increasing pH. Concentration changes with increasing pH show generally similar trend for single and mixed heavy metal samples. The effect of removing heavy metals from aqueous solutions is not related to the initial concentration and depends on the pH change. XRD were used for mineral identification of precipitates and crystallinity of the mineral tended to increase with increasing pH. The precipitates that produced by decreasing the concentration of heavy metals in the aqueous solution composed of Fe-goethite(FeOOH), Al-basaluminite(Al4(SO4)(OH)10·4H2O), Cu-connellite(Cu19(OH)32(SO4)Cl4·3H2O) and tenorite(CuO), Zn-zincite(ZnO), and Mn-hausmannite(Mn3O4).
Keywords
acid mine drainage; heavy metal; goethite; basaluminite; hausmannite;
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