Recycling of aluminum and caustic soda solution from waste effluents generated during the cleaning of the extruder matrixes of the aluminum industry

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 187, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 459-465

  Tansens, Pieter ^a,b   Rodal, Alberto T ^a,c   Machado, Carina M M ^a,d   Soares, Helena M V M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b KaHO St Lieven ^*  (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^d CeNTI Centre for Nanotechnology and Smart Materials   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Aluminum hydroxide; Anodising; Recovery; Recycling; Wastewaters

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE; ALUMINUM INDUSTRY; ALUMINUM SALTS; ANODISING; BAYERITE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; HIGH PURITY; MATRIX; SODIUM HYDROXIDE SOLUTIONS; SULPHURIC ACIDS; WASTE SOLUTION;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM PLANTS; ANODIC OXIDATION; CAUSTIC SODA; DEIONIZED WATER; EFFLUENTS; EXTRUDERS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INDUSTRY; RECOVERY; RECYCLING; SULFURIC ACID; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

FILTRATION;

ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE; IRON; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; SULFURIC ACID;

ALUMINUM; BAYERITE; EFFLUENT; FILTRATION; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROXIDE; METALS INDUSTRY; NEUTRALIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RECYCLING; SODIUM; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; WASTEWATER; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALUMINUM FACTORY; ARTICLE; FILTRATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; METAL RECOVERY; PRECIPITATION; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; VISCOSITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALUMINUM; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 79951822510     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.01.048     Document Type: Article

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