Use of fly ash agglomerates for removal of arsenic
- 10 April 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Environmental Geochemistry and Health
- Vol. 32 (4), 361-366
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-010-9306-x
Abstract
The aim of this work is to investigate the application of fly ash adsorbent for removal of arsenite ions from dilute solution (100-1,000 ppm). Experiments were carried out using material from the "Turów" (Poland) brown-coal-burning power plant, which was wetted, then mixed and tumbled in a granulator to form spherical agglomerates. Measurements of arsenic adsorption from aqueous solution were carried out at room temperature and natural pH of fly ash agglomerates, in either a shaken flask or circulating column, to compare two different methods of contacting solution with adsorbent. Adsorption isotherms of arsenic were determined for agglomerated material using the Freundlich equation. Kinetic studies indicated that sorption follows a pseudo-second-order model. Preferable method to carry out the process is continuous circulation of arsenite solution through a column.Keywords
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