Arsenic contamination in drinking water resources is of major concern in the Ganga delta plains of West Bengal in India and Bangladesh. Here, several laboratory and field studies on arsenic removal from drinking water resources were conducted in the past and the application of strong-oxidant-induced co-precipitation of arsenic on iron hydroxides is still considered as the most promising mechani...

Chemical distributions and microbial culture data are combined to identify the biogeochemical pathways that control the cycles of manganese and iron at the oxicanoxic transition of the Orca Basin. The redox transition coincides with an increase in salinity from 35 to 260‰; hence, mixing diagrams are used to constrain the salinity ranges over which consumption or production of solute species tak...

Hollow manganese phosphonate microspheres of an inorganic-organic hybrid with hierarchically porous shells were prepared through a template-free hydrothermal method using ethylene diamine tetra(methylene phosphonic acid) as the coupling molecule. The hollow structures with hierarchical porosity were confirmed by SEM, TEM and N2 sorption. FT-IR, XPS and TG-DSC measurements revealed that the orga...

Mixed iron-manganese oxide nanoparticles, synthesized by a simple procedure, were used to remove nickel ion from aqueous solutions. Nanostructures, prepared by using different weight percents of manganese, were characterized by transmission electron microscopy, selected area diffraction, X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and vibrating sample magnetometry. Adsorption/desorption isotherm cur...

the purpose of this study is comparison of manganese absorption capacity by natural and modified zeolite. for this purpose used by from semnan mines zeolite with mean particle diameter of 360 micrometer. for modified zeolite, 5 g amount of natural zeolite with 100 ml of 1 m sodium chloride solution mixed and maintained at 24 hours in room temperature. for measure specific surface of absorbents,...

The influence of temperature (5, 10, 22 and 30 °C) on the long-term (30 days) sorption of Mn(2+) by viable Shewanella putrefaciens was studied by FTIR and EXAFS. The additional Mn-removal capacity of these bacteria was found to result from the surface precipitation of Mn-containing inorganic phases. The chemical composition of the Mn-containing precipitates is temperature and contact-time depen...

Manganese is a contaminant in the wastewaters produced by Brazilian mining operations, and the removal of the metal is notoriously difficult because of the high stability of the Mn(II) ion in aqueous solutions. To explore a biological approach for removing excessive amounts of aqueous Mn(II), we investigated the potential of Mn(II) oxidation by both consortium and bacterial isolates from a Braz...