Efficiency of industrial minerals on the removal of mercury species from liquid effluents

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 368, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 403-406

  Melamed, Ricardo ^a   da Luz, Adão Benvindo ^a  

^a CENTRO DE TECNOLOGIA MINERAL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Effluent treatment; Mineral characterization; Sorption; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; HEAVY METALS; ION EXCHANGE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MERCURY (METAL); POLLUTION CONTROL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SORPTION; ZEOLITES;

CEMENTATION; INDUSTRIAL MINERALS; LIQUID EFFLUENTS; MINERAL CHARACTERIZATION; SPECIATION;

LIQUIDS;

ATAPULGITE; BENTONITE; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; KAOLIN; MAGNETITE; MERCURY DERIVATIVE; MINERAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERMICULITE; ZEOLITE;

EFFLUENT; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL MINERAL; LIQUID; MAGNETITE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SPECIES CONCEPT; ZEOLITE;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; BATCH PROCESS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EFFLUENT; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; INDUSTRY; LIQUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

ADSORPTION; MERCURY; MINERALS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 33746709337     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.09.091     Document Type: Article

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