Treatment of rinsing water from electroless nickel plating with a biologically active moving-bed sand filter

Pümpel, Thomas; Ebner, Christian; Pernfuß, B.; Schinner, Franz; Diels, Ludo; Keszthelyi, Z.; Stankovic, A.; Finlay, John A.; Macaskie, Lynne E.; Tsezos, M.; Wouters, H.

doi:10.1016/s0304-386x(00)00168-7

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“…In a continuous process, Pümpel et al 219 employed metal biosorbing or bioprecipitating bacteria to remove heavy metal from wastewater. The MEtal REmoval by Sand Filter INoculation (MERESAFIN) process is based on the inoculation of a sand filter with metal biosorbing or bioprecipitating bacteria.…”

Section: Treatment Of Gold Mine Wastewatermentioning

confidence: 99%

Removal of heavy metals and cyanide from gold mine wastewater

Acheampong

Meulepas

Lens

2010

J of Chemical Tech & Biotech

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This paper reviews the technology and biotechnology to remove heavy metals (such as copper, arsenic, lead and zinc) and cyanide from contaminated wastewater. The paper places special emphasis on gold mine wastewater and the use of low cost materials as sorbent. Various biological as well as physicochemical treatment processes are discussed and compared on the basis of costs, energy requirement, removal efficiency, limitations and advantages. Sorption using natural plant materials, industrial and agricultural waste has been demonstrated to have the potential to replace conventional methods for the removal of heavy metals because of its cost effectiveness, efficiency and the local availability of these materials as biosorbent. The parameters affecting sorption, such as initial ion concentration, pH, sorbent dosage, particle size and temperature, are discussed. The overall treatment cost of metal and cyanide contaminated wastewater depends on the process employed and the local conditions. In general, technical applicability, cost-effectiveness and plant simplicity are the key factors in selecting the most suitable treatment method.

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Section: Treatment Of Gold Mine Wastewatermentioning

confidence: 99%

Removal of heavy metals and cyanide from gold mine wastewater

Acheampong

Meulepas

Lens

2010

J of Chemical Tech & Biotech

206

123

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“…Different pH levels were assayed within the range of 3 to 7.5 ± 0.1, which were kept constant along each experiment. It is known that at pH [ 7.7, hydroxide ions (OH -) in solution may bind to Ni(II) ions to form hydroxylated nickel complexes, such as nickel hydroxide, which tend to precipitate in solution [27,28]. Under these pH conditions a combined process of nickel biosorption and microprecipitation occurs in which the latter predominates.…”

Section: Effect Of Ph On Ni(ii) Ion Biosorptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At high pH values, a net negative charge is present on the cell surface, and the ionic state of the ligands like carboxyl, phosphate, sulfhydril, hydroxyl, imidazole and amino groups is such that it favors the reaction with cationic metals. It is well known that at pH values from 4 to approximately 7.5, Ni(II) ions in aqueous solution are present as divalent positive ions that can interact with negatively charged groups in the biomass [16,28]. However, as the pH falls, the overall charge of the cell surface becomes more positive, and positively charged cationic metals cannot therefore approach the surface [16,29].…”

Section: Effect Of Ph On Ni(ii) Ion Biosorptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nickel(II) biosorption by Rhodotorula glutinis

Suazo-Madrid

Morales-Barrera

Aranda-García

et al. 2010

J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol

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The present study reports the feasibility of using Rhodotorula glutinis biomass as an alternative low-cost biosorbent to remove Ni(II) ions from aqueous solutions. Acetone-pretreated R. glutinis cells showed higher Ni(II) biosorption capacity than untreated cells at pH values ranging from 3 to 7.5, with an optimum pH of 7.5. The effects of other relevant environmental parameters, such as initial Ni(II) concentration, shaking contact time and temperature, on Ni(II) biosorption onto acetone-pretreated R. glutinis were evaluated. Significant enhancement of Ni(II) biosorption capacity was observed by increasing initial metal concentration and temperature. Kinetic studies showed that the kinetic data were best described by a pseudo-second-order kinetic model. Among the two-, three-, and four-parameter isotherm models tested, the Fritz-Schluender model exhibited the best fit to experimental data. Thermodynamic parameters (activation energy, and changes in activation enthalpy, activation entropy, and free energy of activation) revealed that the biosorption of Ni(II) ions onto acetone-pretreated R. glutinis biomass is an endothermic and non-spontaneous process, involving chemical sorption with weak interactions between the biosorbent and Ni(II) ions. The high sorption capacity (44.45 mg g(-1) at 25°C, and 63.53 mg g(-1) at 70°C) exhibited by acetone-pretreated R. glutinis biomass places this biosorbent among the best adsorbents currently available for removal of Ni(II) ions from aqueous effluents.

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“…However, all these works were carried out in simple water synthetic solutions. Real effluents are more complex matrices because they usually have multi-elements and inorganic ligands in competition; these aspects are particularly critical when nickel is one of the metal ions to be removed due to the low affinity of nickel to biomass [4,27].…”

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Removal of heavy metals using a brewer's yeast strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Chemical speciation as a tool in the prediction and improving of treatment efficiency of real electroplating effluents

Machado

Soares

2010

Journal of Hazardous Materials

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In the present work, the influence of the competitive effect of inorganic ligands (carbonates, chlorides, fluorides, phosphates, nitrates and sulphates), which can be present in real multi-metal electroplating effluents, on the biosorption of chromium, copper, nickel and zinc ions by yeast cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was rationally examined. Additionally, chemical speciation studies allowed optimizing the amount of yeast biomass to be used in the treatment of effluents contaminated with nickel. The applicability of chemical simulation studies was tested using two simulated effluents and validated using one real electroplating effluent, all containing high concentrations of nickel (about 303 micro mol l(-1)). For nickel removal, heat-killed biomass of a brewing flocculent strain of S. cerevisiae was used, in a batch mode. After the implementation of the bioremediation process (12 g dry weight l(-1) of yeast cells), the concentration of nickel in the real effluent (34 micro mol l(-1)) reached the quality criteria for industrial effluents discharge, after the second or third batch according to the U.S.-Environmental Protection Agency and Portuguese law, respectively. This corresponded to a removal of nickel of 89%.

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Treatment of rinsing water from electroless nickel plating with a biologically active moving-bed sand filter

Cited by 35 publications

References 8 publications

Removal of heavy metals and cyanide from gold mine wastewater

Removal of heavy metals and cyanide from gold mine wastewater

Nickel(II) biosorption by Rhodotorula glutinis

Removal of heavy metals using a brewer's yeast strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Chemical speciation as a tool in the prediction and improving of treatment efficiency of real electroplating effluents

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