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http://dx.doi.org/10.9719/EEG.2021.54.6.689

A Comparison Study of Alum Sludge and Ferric Hydroxide Based Adsorbents for Arsenic Adsorption from Mine Water  

Choi, Kung-Won (Department of Earth Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University)
Park, Seong-Sook (Department of Earth Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University)
Kang, Chan-Ung (Mineral Resources Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Lee, Joon Hak (Department of Earth Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University)
Kim, Sun Joon (Department of Earth Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.54, no.6, 2021 , pp. 689-698 More about this Journal
Abstract
Since the mine reclamation scheme was implemented from 2007 in Korea, various remediation programs have been decontaminated the pollution associated with mining and 254 mines were managed to reclamation from 2011 to 2015. However, as the total amount of contaminated mine drainage has been increased due to the discovery of potential hazards and contaminated zone, more efficient and economical treatment technology is required. Therefore, in this study, the adsorption properties of arsenic was evaluated according to the adsorbents which were derived from water treatment sludge(Alum based adsorbent, ABA-500) and granular ferric hydroxide(GFH), already commercialized. The alum sludge and GFH adsorbents consisted of aluminum, silica materials and amorphous iron hydroxide, respectively. The point of zero charge of ABA-500 and GFH were 5.27 and 6.72, respectively. The result of the analysis of BET revealed that the specific surface area of GFH(257 m2·g-1) was larger than ABA-500(126~136 m2·g-1) and all the adsorbents were mesoporous materials inferred from N2 adsorption-desorption isotherm. The adsorption capacity of adsorbents was compared with the batch experiments that were performed at different reaction times, pH, temperature and initial concentrations of arsenic. As a result of kinetic study, it was confirmed that arsenic was adsorbed rapidly in the order of GFH, ABA-500(granule) and ABA-500(3mm). The adsorption kinetics were fitted to the pseudo-second-order kinetic model for all three adsorbents. The amount of adsorbed arsenic was increased with low pH and high temperature regardless of adsorbents. When the adsorbents reacted at different initial concentrations of arsenic in an hour, ABA-500(granule) and GFH could remove the arsenic below the standard of drinking water if the concentration was below 0.2 mg·g-1 and 1 mg·g-1, respectively. The results suggested that the ABA-500(granule), a low-cost adsorbent, had the potential to field application at low contaminated mine drainage.
Keywords
alum sludge; granular ferric hydroxide; mine drainage; arsenic; adsorption;
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