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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 100, Issue -, Pages 59-64Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2011.11.016
Keywords
Red mud; Heavy metals; Water treatment
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- British Council, India under UKIERI [SA07-019]
- University of Glasgow
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Proposals to use red mud, the waste produced by the extraction of alumina from bauxite ore in the Bayer process, as a material for treatment of heavy metal-contaminated water are limited by its inherent alkalinity and variability. Attempts to lower its pH have been largely unreliable. However, an alternative strategy is carbonisation of red mud by catalytic hydrocarbon cracking, which results in a magnetic material of greater surface area. The efficacy of this material has been compared with that of the untreated parent red mud and acidified red mud for the sorption of CrO42-, Cu2+ and Pb2+. Carbonised red mud does not remove CrO42- from solution, but shows enhancement of Cu2+ and Pb2+ removal. There is an approximate ten-fold increase in removal of Cu2+ and Pb2+ by carbonised red mud compared with acidified red mud. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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