Use of Sorption of Copper Cations by Clinoptilolite for Wastewater Treatment

Iveta Pandová, Anton Panda, Jan Valíček, Marta Harničárová, Milena Kušnerová and Zuzana Palková
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Iveta Pandová: Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with a Seat in Prešov, Technical University of Košice, Bayerova 1, 080 01 Prešov, Slovak Republic
Anton Panda: Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with a Seat in Prešov, Technical University of Košice, Bayerova 1, 080 01 Prešov, Slovak Republic
Jan Valíček: Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Technical Faculty, Tr. A. Hlinku 2, 949 76 Nitra, Slovakia
Marta Harničárová: Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Technical Faculty, Tr. A. Hlinku 2, 949 76 Nitra, Slovakia
Milena Kušnerová: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice, Okružní 10, 370 01 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Zuzana Palková: Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Technical Faculty, Tr. A. Hlinku 2, 949 76 Nitra, Slovakia

IJERPH, 2018, vol. 15, issue 7, 1-12

Abstract: This paper from the field of environmental chemistry offers an innovative use of sorbents in the treatment of waste industrial water. Various industrial activities, especially the use of technological fluids in machining, surface treatment of materials, ore extraction, pesticide use in agriculture, etc., create wastewater containing dangerous metals that cause serious health problems. This paper presents the results of studies of the natural zeolite clinoptilolite as a sorbent of copper cations. These results provide the measurement of the sorption kinetics as well as the observed parameters of sorption of copper cations from the aquatic environment to the clinoptilolite from a promising Slovak site. The effectiveness of the natural sorbent is also compared with that of certain known synthetic sorbents.

Keywords: wastewater; environment; copper cations; sorption; zeolites (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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