Sulfate removal from mine-impacted water by electrocoagulation: statistical study, factorial design, and kinetics
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Sulfate removal from mine-impacted water by electrocoagulation: statistical study, factorial design, and kinetics Caroline Rodrigues 1 & Hioná V. Dal Magro Follmann 1 & Dámaris Núñez-Gómez 1 & Maria Eliza Nagel-Hassemer 1 & Flávio R. Lapolli 1 & María Ángeles Lobo-Recio 1,2 Received: 25 March 2020 / Accepted: 15 June 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract This work aimed to remove sulfate and acidity from mine-impacted water (MIW) via electrocoagulation (EC), a technique which stands as an advanced alternative to chemical coagulation in pollutant removal from wastewaters. The multiple electrochemical reactions occurring in the aluminum anode and the stainless steel cathode surfaces can form unstable flakes of metal hydroxysulfate complexes, causing coagulation, flocculation, and floatation; or, adsorption of sulfate on sorbents originated from the electrochemical process can occur, depending on pH value. Batch experiments in the continuous mode of exposition using different current densities (35, 50, and 65 A m−2) were tested, and a statistical difference between their sulfate removals was detected. Furthermore, the intermittent mode of exposure was also tested by performing a 22-factorial design to verify the combination with different current densities, concluding that better efficiencies of sulfate removal were obtained in the continuous mode of exposition, even with lower current densities. After 5 h of electrocoagulation, sulfate could be removed from MIW with a mean efficiency of 70.95% (in continuous mode of exposition and 65 A m−2 current density), and this sulfate removal follows probable third-order decay kinetics in accordance with the quick drop in sulfate concentration until 3 h of exposure time, remaining virtually constant at longer times.
Keywords Acid mine drainage (AMD) . Mine-impacted water (MIW) . Electrocoagulation . Sulfate removal . Decay kinetics . Factorial design Abbreviations AMD acid mine drainage ANOVA analysis of variance method EC electrocoagulation
MAV MIW SD SRB
maximum allowed value mine-impacted water standard deviation sulfate-reducing bacteria
Responsible editor: Ioannis A. Katsoyiannis Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-09758-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Caroline Rodrigues [email protected] Hioná V. Dal Magro Follmann [email protected]
María Ángeles Lobo-Recio [email protected]
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Department of Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Campus Reitor João David Ferreira Lima, Trindade, Florianópolis, SC 88040-900, Brazil
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Department of Energy and Sustainability, UFSC, Campus Araranguá, Rod. Gov. Jorge Lacerda,3201, Jardim das Avenidas, Araranguá, SC 88906-072, Brazil
Dámaris Núñez-Gómez [email protected] Maria Eliza Nagel-Hassemer [email protected] Flávio R. Lapolli [email protected]
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