Continuous circuit coprecipitation of arsenic(V) with ferric iron by lime neutralization: Process parameter effects on arsenic removal and precipitate quality

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 111-112, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-72

  De Klerk, Richard Jack ^a   Jia, Yongfeng ^a,b   Daenzer, Renaud ^a   Gomez, Mario A ^a   Demopoulos, George P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Arsenic; Coprecipitation; Effluent treatment; Ferric arsenate

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC SULFATE SOLUTIONS; ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; ARSENIC REMOVAL; CIRCUIT CONFIGURATIONS; CIRCUIT DESIGNS; CO-PRECIPITATES; FERRIC ARSENATE; FERRIC IRON; FERRIHYDRITES; INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS; MOLAR RATIO; POINT OF ZERO CHARGE; PRECIPITATE QUALITY; PROCESS PARAMETER EFFECT; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIC; TWO STAGE;

ADSORPTION; ALUMINUM; CHEMICAL STABILITY; COPRECIPITATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EXPERIMENTS; GYPSUM; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; IRON; LIME; PH EFFECTS; POLLUTION CONTROL; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ARSENIC;

EID: 84857190877     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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