Calcium polysulfide remediation of hexavalent chromium contamination from chromite ore processing residue

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 364, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 32-44

  Graham, Margaret C ^a   Farmer, John G ^a   Anderson, Peter ^a   Paterson, Edward ^b   Hillier, Stephen ^b   Lumsdon, David G ^b   Bewley, Richard J F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c URS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium polysulfide; COPR; Groundwater; Hexavalent chromium; Remediation

Indexed keywords

BIOREMEDIATION; CALCIUM; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; ORE TREATMENT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TOXIC MATERIALS;

CALCIUM POLYSULFIDE; CHROMITE ORE PROCESSING RESIDUE (COPR); HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM; ORGANIC COMPLEXES;

CHROMIUM;

CALCIUM; CALCIUM POLYSULFIDE; CHROMIUM; FERROUS SULFATE; GROUND WATER; SULFIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARCINOGEN; CHROMIUM; GROUNDWATER; IRON ORE; LIME; ORE DEPOSIT; REMEDIATION;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; PH; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIC WASTE; UNITED KINGDOM; WASTE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHROMIUM; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALLURGY; SCOTLAND; SULFIDES; THIOSULFATES; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GLASGOW [SCOTLAND]; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646834002     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.11.007     Document Type: Article

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