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Copper, chromium and nickel removal from metal plating wastewater by electrocoagulation

Feryal Akbal, +1 more
- 15 Mar 2011 - 
- Vol. 269, Iss: 1, pp 214-222
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In this paper, the influence of electrode material, current density, wastewater pH and conductivity on removal performance was explored, and the results showed that metal removal increased with increasing current density and pH.
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This article is published in Desalination.The article was published on 2011-03-15. It has received 414 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Electrocoagulation & Plating.

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Efficient techniques for the removal of toxic heavy metals from aquatic environment: A review

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a sketch about treatment technologies followed by their heavy metal capture capacity from industrial effluent, the treatment performance, their remediation capacity and probable environmental and health impacts were deliberated in this review article.
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Removal of Heavy Metals from Industrial Wastewaters: A Review

TL;DR: A review of membrane filtration, ion exchange, ion-exchange, adsorption, chemical precipitation, nanotechnology treatments, electrochemical and advanced oxidation processes are discussed in this article.
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Removal of heavy metals from aqueous solution by biochars derived from anaerobically digested biomass

TL;DR: Investigation of lead sorption by the two biochars indicated that the removal was mainly through a surface precipitation mechanism, which was confirmed by batch sorption experiments, mathematical modeling, and examinations of lead-laden biochar samples using SEM-EDS, XRD, and FTIR.
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Electrocoagulation for the treatment of textile industry effluent--a review

TL;DR: The objective of the present manuscript is to review the potential of electrocoagulation for the treatment of industrial effluents, mainly removal of dyes from textile effluent.
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Electrocoagulation and advanced electrocoagulation processes: A general review about the fundamentals, emerging applications and its association with other technologies

TL;DR: The electrocoagulation (EC) process is an electrochemical means of introducing coagulants and removing suspended solids, colloidal material, and metals, as well as other dissolved solids from water and wastewaters as discussed by the authors.
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Decontamination of wastewaters containing synthetic organic dyes by electrochemical methods. An updated review

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the electrochemical methods used at lab and pilot plant scale to decontaminate synthetic and real effluents containing dyes, considering the period from 2009 to 2013, as an update of our previous review up to 2008.
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Treatment of textile wastewaters by electrocoagulation using iron and aluminum electrodes.

TL;DR: The results show that iron is superior to aluminum as sacrificial electrode material, from COD removal efficiency and energy consumption points.
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Removal of arsenic from water by electrocoagulation

TL;DR: Electrocoagulation has been evaluated as a treatment technology for arsenite and arsenate removal from water and revealed that EC has better removal efficiency for As(III), whereas As(V) removal by both processes was nearly same.
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Decolorization of basic dye solutions by electrocoagulation: An investigation of the effect of operational parameters

TL;DR: The findings in this study shows that an increase in the current density up to 60-80 A m(-2) enhanced the color removal efficiency, the electrolysis time was 5 min and the range of pH was determined between 5.5 and 8.5 for two mentioned dye solutions.
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Removal of heavy metals from wastewater by membrane processes: a comparative study

TL;DR: In this paper, the application of both reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) technologies for the treatment of wastewater containing copper and cadmium ions to reduce fresh water consumption and environmental degradation was investigated Synthetic wastewater samples containing Cu2+ and Cd2+ ions at various concentrations were prepared and subjected to treatment by RO and NF in the laboratory.
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