Environmental Geology

, Volume 46, Issue 6–7, pp 865–870 | Cite as

Lead removal from wastewater using faujasite tuff

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Abstract

The Jordanian chabazite-phillipsite tuff and faujasite-phillipsite tuff have suitable mineralogical and technical properties that enable them to be used for ion-exchange processes. These include suitable grain size and total cation exchange capacity, acceptable zeolite content, good attrition resistance and high packed-bed density. The chabazite-phillipsite tuff (ZE1 and ZE2) has an excellent efficiency to remove Pb and an acceptable efficiency to remove Fe, Cu, Zn and Ni from effluent wastewater of a battery factory and other industries. The faujasite-phillipsite tuff (ZE3) is 6.97 times more efficient than the ZE1 and ZE2. A bed of ZE3 (1,000 kg) loaded in a 1.17-m3 column is capable of cleaning about 2,456 m3 of the effluent from the factory at a cost of US $200/ton. The wastewater is contaminated with 20 ppm Pb in the presence of competing ions including Ca (210 ppm), Na (1,950 ppm) and Fe (169 ppm). This quantity of wastewater is equivalent to 120 working days of effluent discharge from the factory at a flow rate of 20 m3/day.

Keywords

Lead removal Faujasite Chabazite Industrial wastewater Jordan 
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Acknowledgments

The results presented here are from the project “Ion-exchange properties of the Neogene faujasite tuff of Jordan”, which is financially supported by a grant from the Deanship of Research and Graduate Studies, of the Hashemite University.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Earth and Environmental SciencesHashemite UniversityZarqaJordan
  2. 2.Department of ChemistryHashemite UniversityZarqaJordan

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