REMOVAL OF HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM USING SPHAGNUM MOSS PEAT

Authors
SHARMA DC FORSTER CF
Citation
Dc. Sharma et Cf. Forster, REMOVAL OF HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM USING SPHAGNUM MOSS PEAT, Water research, 27(7), 1993, pp. 1201-1208
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Civil","Environmental Sciences","Water Resources
Journal title
Water research → ACNP
ISSN journal
00431354
Volume
27
Issue
7
Year of publication
1993
Pages
1201 - 1208
Database
ISI
SICI code
0043-1354(1993)27:7<1201:ROHCUS>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
Batch adsorption studies have shown that sphagnum moss peat, which is essentially oligotrophic, in concentrations ranging from 4 to 40 g/l c an be used effectively to remove hexavalent chromium from aqueous solu tions. The process is pH dependent, the optimum range being 1.5-3. Tre atment of the exhausted peat with 1 M NaOH removed only 50% of the sor bed metal, suggesting that the binding to the peat involved strong che misorption forces.