Biosorption of metal contaminants from acidic mine waters.
Authors
Bennett PG; Ferguson CR; Jeffers TH
Source
Process Mineralogy XI: Characterization of Metallurgical & Recyclable Products - proceedings of the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS 1991) Annual Meeting, February 24-28, 1991, New Orleans, Louisiana. Hausen DM, ed. Warrendale, PA: TMS, 1992 Mar; XI:213-222
Link
NIOSHTIC No.
10011196
Abstract
The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Salt Lake City Research Center has developed porous polymeric beads containing immobilized nonliving biological materials for extracting metal contaminants from wastewaters. Immobilized biological materials include peat moss, algae, biological polymers, and other materials that demonstrate high affinities for heavy metals. The beads, designated as bio-fix beads, have distinct advantages over traditional methods of utilizing biological materials in that they have excellent handling characteristics and can be used in conventional processing equipment or low-maintenance systems. Toxic metals such as copper, cadmium, zinc, lead, and mercury are among the many heavy metals effectively removed from mine wastewaters using bio-fix beads. Continuous cyclic testing indicated that the beads continued to produce treated effluents which met national drinking water standards after 175 loading-elution cycles. Adsorbed metals were removed from the beads using dilute mineral acids. In many cases, the extracted metals were further concentrated to enable processors to reclaim the metals, thus minimizing the generation of a hazardous sludge. Tests indicated that use of the beads in a low-maintenance system was particularly effective for treating remote acid mine drainage waters and small toxic seeps from hard-rock mining districts.
Publication Date
19920301
Document Type
OP; Final Contract Report; Conference/Symposia Proceedings
Editors
Hausen DM
Fiscal Year
1992
ISBN No.
9780873391382
Identifying No.
OP 11-92
NIOSH Division
SLRC
Source Name
Process Mineralogy XI: Characterization of Metallurgical & Recyclable Products - proceedings of the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS 1991) Annual Meeting, February 24-28, 1991, New Orleans, Louisiana
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