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Treatment Features of Fluorine-containing Wastewater Using Calcium as a Precipitant for Its Reuse  

Kim, Young-Im (Department Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University)
Baek, Mi-Hwa (Department Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University)
Kim, Dong-Su (Department Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University)
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Resources Recycling / v.16, no.4, 2007 , pp. 27-32 More about this Journal
Abstract
The characteristics of fluorine removal from wastewater have been investigated by precipitation method using calcium as a precipitant for the purpose of the reuse of treated wastewater. In the conditions of 10 mM of the initial concentration of fluorine and pH 4, the precipitation of fluorine was rapidly progressed within a few minutes after the precipitant was added and the precipitation of fluorine was observed to follow a second order reaction. Also, as the addition of precipitant was increased, the reaction rate constant of fluorine precipitation was found to rise. Postulating that the maximum fluorine removal was attained at pH 4, about 70% of fluorine was precipitated compared with the maximum removal when 10 times of equivalent amount of calcium was employed at pH 2 and the fluorine removal was about 96% compared with its maximum value at pH 3 under the same addition of precipitant. The fluorine precipitation reaction was found to be endothermic and the coexistence of $SiF_6{^{2-}}$ with fluorine resulted in its less removal. Finally, the isoelectric point of the precipitate was examined to be ca. pH 5.
Keywords
Fluorine-containing Wastewater; Precipitation Method; Calcium; Thermodynamic Estimation;
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