The use of low-cost adsorbents for wastewater purification in mining industries

Evgenia Iakovleva; Mika Sillanpää

doi:10.1007/s11356-013-1546-8

The use of low-cost adsorbents for wastewater purification in mining industries

Evgenia Iakovleva
, Mika Sillanpää

Lappeenranta University of Technology

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Abstract

Recently, great attention has been paid to the environmental problems in mining industry. At present there are different ways of mineral processing, as well as various methods of wastewater treatment, most of them are expensive. Work is ongoing to find low-cost treatments. In this article, low-cost adsorbents, potentially useful for wastewater treatment on mining and metallurgical plants, are reviewed; their characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages of their application are compared. Also adsorption of different metals and radioactive compounds from acidic environment similar to composition of mining and metallurgical wastewaters is considered.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7878-7899
Number of pages	22
Journal	Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Volume	20
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-013-1546-8
Publication status	Published - Nov 2013
Externally published	Yes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

AMD
Low-cost adsorbent
Mining industry
Wastewater treatment

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Environmental Chemistry
Pollution
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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