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Selective separation of Cd(II), Zn(II) and Pb(II) from Pb-Zn smelter wastewater via shear induced dissociation coupling with ultrafiltration

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Treatment of Pb-Zn smelter wastewater via complexation-ultrafiltration (C-UF) was studied using copolymer of acrylic acid-maleic acid (PMA) as complexant. The complexing reaction kinetics of M (Cd(II), Pb(II) and Zn(II)) with PMA were examined for the first time and the pseudo-first-order model could be employed to simulate the reaction. The effects of the mass ratio of PMA to metal ions (P/M) and pH on the simultaneous removal of Cd(II), Zn(II) and Pb(II) via C-UF were investigated, and the optimized P/M and pH are 10 and 7.0, respectively. Furthermore, the shear stability of PMA-Cd, PMA-Zn and PMA-Pb complexes was investigated, and the corresponding critical shear rates (γc), the smallest shear rate at which the complexes begin to dissociate were 1.98×105, 1.81×104 and 1.38×105 s−1, respectively. The selective recovery of Cd(II), Zn(II) and Pb(II) from Pb-Zn Smelter wastewater as well as the regeneration of PMA were fulfilled by shear induced dissociation coupled with ultrafiltration (SID-UF) according to the difference of critical shear rates of PMA-M complexes, and the regenerated PMA showed almost the same complexation ability as the original.

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Abbreviations

C0 :

metal concentration of the permeate at rest [mg L−1]

Cf :

metal concentration of the feed [mg L−1]

C H+ :

H+ concentration [mg L−1]

CM :

metal concentration ratio of the permeate to the initial feed

CPMA :

PMA concentration [mg L−1]

Cp :

metal concentration of the permeate [mg L−1]

CR :

metal concentration ratio of retentate to the initial feed

C com :

metal concentration of the permeate through the complexation region [mg L−1]

Cdis :

metal concentration of the permeate through the dissociation region [mg L−1]

F:

permeation coefficient [L m−2 kPa−1 h−1, m s−1 Pa−1]

K:

rate constant

K1 :

pseudo-first-order rate constant

K*:

observed rate constant

k:

velocity following factor

N:

rotation speed [rpm]

Nc :

critical rotation speed [rpm]

P0 :

center pressure [kPa]

r0 :

membrane outsider radius [m]

ri :

membrane insider radius [m]

rc :

critical radius [m]

R:

rejection of metal [%]

R2 :

regression coefficient

t:

time [s]

VR :

the volume ratio of supplementar y deionized water to the initial feed

v :

kinematic viscosity [m2s−1 ]

ρ :

fluid density [kg m−3]

γ :

shear rate [s−1]

γ c :

critical shear rate [s−1]

γcl, γct :

critical shear rate on membrane surface in the laminar regime and turbulent regime [s−1]

β :

selective separation factor

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21476265).

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Le, HS., Qiu, YR. Selective separation of Cd(II), Zn(II) and Pb(II) from Pb-Zn smelter wastewater via shear induced dissociation coupling with ultrafiltration. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 37, 784–791 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-020-0509-2

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