“…4 Because of the above reasons, mercury must be removed to very low levels from wastewater generated in industries such as metal smelting and caustic-chlorine production in mercury cells, metal processing, plating and metal finishing. 5 Numerous physical and chemical separation processes, such as solvent extraction, ion-exchange, precipitation, membrane separation, reverse osmosis, coagulation and photoreduction, [6][7][8][9] have been applied for effective reduction of mercury concentrations from various aqueous solutions.…”