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Removal of boron in seawater by activated carbon adsoprtion  

Kim, Han-Seung (명지대학교 환경생명공학과)
Kang, Joon-Seok (명지대학교 환경생명공학과)
Kim, Byung-Ro (명지대학교 환경생명공학과)
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Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater / v.25, no.6, 2011 , pp. 917-922 More about this Journal
Abstract
Adsorption characteristics of boron on activated carbon was investigated in order to evaluate the use of activated carbon for the removal of boron in desalination processes using SWRO. Boron was removed ranging from 54~60% when the concentration of activated carbon was 1,000 mg/L in 6 hours under the initial boron concentration of 5 mg/L. The removal of boron increased by 20~22% with the increase of pH from 5 to 9. Organic matter had adverse effect on the adsorption of boron on activated carbon. Boron removal decreased by 10-12% when EDTA was added at 1 mg/L under 5 mg/L of boron and 200mg/L of activated carbon. In this results, activated carbon would be a good candidate for a pretreatment of desalination processes by SWRO from the view of mitigating the feed boron concentration to RO and meeting the effluent boron concentration without post-treatment after RO.
Keywords
activated carbon; adsorption; boron; desalination; RO;
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