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Removal of heavy metals from paint industry’s wastewater using Leca as an available adsorbent

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The ability of light expanded clay aggregate to remove lead and cadmium from paint industry’s effluents was studied at different levels of adsorbent, contact time and pH in April 2008. For this purpose, lead and cadmium removal from paint industry effluents were studied in batch reactors. lead and cadmium measurements have been taken with non-flame atomic absorption techniques and test methods were adapted from 19th. Ed. of standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater. In this study, different amounts of Leca (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 g/L) were investigated. The amount of adsorbed lead and cadmium exposure to Leca increased from 1.41 to 3 mg/g and 0.22 to 0.75 mg/g, respectively. The maximum removal efficiency for Pb was 93.75 % at pH = 7 and exposure to 10 g/L of Leca, while for cadmium, it was nearly 89.7 % at the same condition. In this study, adsorption process of lead and cadmium was fitted with Freundlich adsorption isotherm (R2 Pb = 0.97 and R2 Cd = 0.98). The sufficient contact time was deemed 1–2 h for lead and cadmium. According to the results, Leca is recommended as a low cost and available adsorbent to remove lead and cadmium from industrial wastewater.

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  1. Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

    M. Malakootian Ph. D. (Associate professor) & H. Hossaini (Postgraduate student)

  2. Department of Environmental Management, Graduate School of the Environment and Energy, IAU, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran

    J. Nouri Ph.D. (Full professor)

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Malakootian, M., Nouri, J. & Hossaini, H. Removal of heavy metals from paint industry’s wastewater using Leca as an available adsorbent. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 6, 183–190 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03327620

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