electroplating industry wastewater (eiw) characterized by high chemical oxygen demand (cod) is a big source of water and air contamination with heavy metals. the formation of cyanide complex with heavy metals is responsible for its elevated cod. the concentration of heavy metals in eiw can be removed by the use of different precipitating agents (sulfide and hydroxide). but the major bottleneck ...

industrial processes release a range of gaseous and particulate pollutants containing heavy metals into the air. lack of enough attention to the design, installation, repair and maintenance of gas and dust filtration systems in industries, is one of reasons of increasing the emissions of these pollutants. hereon, the steel making processes is one of emission sources of heavy metals. according t...

Backgrounds & objectives: Contamination of the environment by heavy metals, pollute water and agricultural products. The aggregation of these metals will cause various diseases for human. Therefore, it is important to study how to make them safe. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of starch-iron oxide nanocomposite in removing two heavy metals, nickel and cadmium, from wast...

background: today, through various industrial processes, toxic heavy metals are released into aquatic environments that are harmful to the ecosystem. in the present investigation, removal of such contaminants from industrial wastewater is necessary. the purpose was made to extend an ecofriendly technology by using a bio carbon generated from sunflower waste biomass. methods: the impact of initi...

background: the rapid increase in agricultural and industrial development has made heavy metal pollution a serious environmental problem and public health threat; therefore, removal of heavy metals from water is important. the current study prepared dnph@sds@fe3o4 nanoparticles as a novel and effective adsorbent for removal of hg(ii) ions from an aqueous solution. methods: a selective adsorbent...

algae have been proven efficient biological vectors for heavy metal uptake. in order to further study their biosorption potential, two strains spirogyra sp. and spirulina sp. have been studied under different initial metal concentrations. in recent years, the biosorption processes have been studied extensively using microbial biomass as biosorbent for heavy metal ions removal. in these studies,...

soil washing by mobilizing is one of in-situ techniques for soil decontamination. applying this technique to the contaminated soils could be followed by many environmental problems. therefore, it is important to study the effective factors on removal of heavy metals from different forms. in the present research, the forms of zn, pb, and cd in three contaminated soils from the zinc-lead smelting...

The thermal behavior of heavy metals in the co-incineration of municipal solid waste-sludge incinerator fly ash (MSS fly ash) was studied using a laboratory-scale tube furnace. The results indicate that without the addition of chlorinating agents, temperature was an important parameter and had significantly influenced on heavy metal removal, whereas the residence time had a weak effect. Between...

Heavy metals are major contributors to pollution of the biosphere, and their efficient removal from contaminated water is required. Biosorption is an emerging technology that has been shown to be effective in removing very low levels of heavy metal from wastewater. Although peptides such as metallothioneins or phytotchelatins are known to immobilize heavy metals, peptide-based biosorbents have ...