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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 91, Issue 10, Pages 2051-2058Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.05.013
Keywords
Tannins; Wastewater; Coagulation-flocculation; Slow sand filtration; Natural flocculants
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- Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CICYT) [CTQ2007-60255]
- Junta de Extremadura [PRI-07A031]
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A new tannin-based coagulant-flocculant (Tanfloc) was tested for water treatment at a pilot plant level. Four types of water sample were treated: surface water (collected from a river), and municipal, textile industry (simulated by a 100 mg L-1 aqueous solution of an acid dye), and laundry (simulated by a 50 mg L-1 aqueous solution of an anionic surfactant) wastewaters. The pilot plant process consisted of coagulation, sedimentation, and filtration. The experiments were carried out with an average coagulant dosage of 92.2 mg L-1 (except in the case of the surface water for which the dosage was 2 mg L-1). The efficacy of the water purification was notable in every case: total turbidity removal in the surface water and municipal wastewater, about 95% dye removal in the case of the textile industry wastewater, and about 80% surfactant removal in the laundry wastewater. Filtration improved the removal of suspended solids, both flocs and turbidity, and slightly improved the process as a whole. The efficiency of Tanfloc in these pilot studies was similar to or even better than that obtained in batch trials. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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