This article brings information on how to protect worker health during the decommissioning of mercury-based electrolysis facilities. It relies on the Euro Chlor document "Health 2, Code of practice, Control of worker exposure to mercury in the chlor-alkali industry" that provides protection guidelines for both normal production and decommissioning activities, and on hands-on experience gained d...

For many years the Savannah River has suffered fish consumption warnings. While several potential sources of mercury may contribute to this contamination, the chlor-alkali facility in Augusta, which produces chlorine by electrolysis using mercury-cell technology, is a major potential contributor. To examine this possibility samples of sediment were collected from the river above and below the f...

In this study, the removal of mercury ions by cellulose of Acetobacter xylinum was investigated in the synthetic and chlor-alkali wastewater. Biofilms of Acetobacter xylinum were grown in laboratory column bioreactors. The biofilms were continuously treated with sterile synthetic model wastewater or nonsterile, neutralized chloralkali wastewater.The extent of adsorption was studied as function ...

the petrochemical industry is the most important and most widely active industries in the country. due to the variety and complexity of industrial products, it also produces a wild range of pollutants. mercury waste disposal from chlor-alkali units is one of the fundamental problems of this industry. various studies have shown that phytoremediation system for removal of mercury from aqueous sol...

Total atmospheric Hg contamination in a French mountainous catchment upstream from a chlor-alkali industrial site was assessed using Hg concentrations in the deepest soil horizon, in the stream bottom sediments, in river waters and in bryophytes. The natural background level of Hg content deriving from rock weathering was estimated to 32 ng g(-1) in the deepest soil layers. The soils appear to ...

Abstract As an energy-intensive industry, the chlor-alkali process has caused numerous environmental issues due to heavy electricity consumption and pollution. Chlor-alkali industry been upgraded from mercury, diaphragm electrolytic cell, ion exchange membrane (IEM) cells. However, several challenges, such as selectivity of anodic reaction, sluggish kinetics alkaline hydrogen evolution, degrada...

BACKGROUND The paper presents the evaluation of soil contamination with total, water-available, mobile, semi-mobile and non-mobile Hg fractions in the surroundings of a former chlor-alkali plant in connection with several chemical soil characteristics. Principal Component Analysis and Cluster Analysis were used to evaluate the chemical composition variability of soil and factors influencing the...

in this study, gas evolution in a vertical electrochemical cell is investigated numerically with a modified two-fluid model. the mathematical model involves solution of separate transport equation for the gas and liquid phases with an allowance to inter-phase transfer of mass and momentum. the governing equations are discreted via the finite volume technique and then are solved by the simple al...

BACKGROUND Exposure to mercury (Hg) as a heavy metal can cause health effects. The objective of this study was to assess occupational exposure to Hg in a chlor-alkali petrochemical industry in Iran by determining of Hg concentrations in air, blood and urine samples. METHODS The study was performed on 50 exposed subjects and 50 unexposed controls. Air samples were collected in the breathing zo...

exposure to mercury (hg) as a heavy metal can cause health effects. the objective of this study was to assess occupational exposure to hg in a chlor-alkali petrochemical industry in iran by determining of hg concentrations in air, blood and urine samples.the study was performed on 50 exposed subjects and 50 unexposed controls. air samples were collected in the breathing zone of exposed subjects...