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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 8, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2020.104491
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Arsenate removal; Adsorption; Modified manganese oxide ore; Solid waste management; Solidification; stabilisation
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- Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (DFAT) innovationXchange (iXc)
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There is a need to remove arsenic (As) in drinking water supplies by simple and cost-effective techniques. A column adsorption study was conducted to remove As(V) from water employing an iron (Fe) and zirconium (Zr) grafted Vietnamese manganese oxide ore (Fe-a-VMO and Zr-a-VMO). At a flow rate of 0.15 L/h, the bed volumes of water (As(V) concentration 0.1 mg/L) treated by Zr-a-VMO and Fe-a-VMO to produce water with As(V) concentration below the WHO guideline concentration (10 mu g/L) were 6 and 8 times higher than for VMO, respectively. An increase in influent As concentration increased the adsorption capacity, but the increase of flow rate reduced the adsorption capacity. The maximum adsorption capacities derived from the Thomas model for VMO, Fe-a-VMO, and Zr-a-VMO at an influent concentration of 0.25 mg As(V)/L and flow rate of 0.15 L/h were 0.151, 1.145, and 0.925 mg/g, respectively. These values fell when influent As concentration decreased or the flow rate increased. Solidification/stabilisation method was applied to immobilise As(V) in the exhausted absorbent wastes by replacing 5, 10, 15, and 20 % of sand in a sand/cement concrete mixture by the adsorbent waste. This solidified material had satisfactory compressive strength, rapid chloride penetrability test, and volume of permeable voids, which indicated the material had good stability, making it suitable for use as a building material in construction work. The As(V) leaching from these materials, as measured by Method 1313 of the Leaching Environmental Assessment Framework of USEPA, proved to be very negligible.
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