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Combined Ferrite Treatment of Multi-component Wastewaters Under the Elevated Temperature

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Ferrite treatment of wastewater is a promising approach, since it allows to efficiently treat the polluted water containing at the same time dissolved heavy metal complexes within a broad pH range, and organic compounds. Application of ferrite treatment makes it possible to resolve a series of environmental and economic challenges due to the high degree of water purification and final formation of poorly soluble sediments with crystal oxide structure and ferromagnetic properties. This paper contains a review of ferritization treatment methods of multi-component wastewaters. It was shown that the main factor ensuring the formation of ferrites in the studied electrocoagulation treatment process is temperature, which needs to be not less than 70 °C and up to 85 °C. To carry out electrolysis with converting iron (III) hydroxide into Fe3O4, an optimal power consumption of 3–5 Coulombs per 1 mg of iron (III) contained in the sediment is required. The optimal conditions for this process are: ia (current density)—up to 2.5–3.0 A/dm2, temperature 70–80 °C, and pH values 4.0–8.0. Application of high-frequency currents for studied processes was tested, and the ferrite sludge with electric susceptibility of 2000–2200 Oersted was obtained, with higher index of hydraulic fineness of sludge particles which reached 0.86 mm/s. The value of the specific magnetic susceptibility of sediment in the dry state is 2.0–3.0 cm3/g. At the same time, the removal of heavy metal ions within 0.5 h treatment time reached 98–100%. It was shown that despite the high temperatures needed for this type of treatment, the resulted sludge can be readily separated from liquid phase both in gravitational and magnetic fields, which implies a series of advantages, including shorter time for sludge sedimentation and separation and lesser volumes of sedimentation tanks, prevention of environmental pollution with heavy metals, and a variety of possible applications of magnetic sludge.

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    Gheorghe Duca, Olga Covaliova & Lidia Romanciuc

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Duca, G., Covaliov, V., Covaliova, O., Romanciuc, L. (2023). Combined Ferrite Treatment of Multi-component Wastewaters Under the Elevated Temperature. In: Debik, E., Bahadir, M., Haarstrick, A. (eds) Wastewater Management and Technologies. Water and Wastewater Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36298-9_9

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