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- Title
Characteristics of Chromium Coprecipitation Mediated by Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans DC.
- Authors
Li, Mingming; Zhu, Jianyu; Gan, Min; Wang, Qianfen; Jie, Shiqi; Chai, Liyuan
- Abstract
Removal of hexavalent chromium by precipitation from wastewater has received increasing interest in recent years. This study described the behavior of chromium and iron coprecipitation mediated by Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans DC in an artificial simulated acid environment. In four parallel groups with the different concentrations of chromium(VI) (30, 60, 90, 120 mg/L), the precipitation efficiencies of chromium were enhanced uniformly by A. ferrooxidans DC. But chromium coprecipitation efficiency reduced as the initial chromium concentration increasing at the early stage. Especially in the 30 and 60 mg/L chromium groups, the maximum precipitation efficiency of chromium was improved from 56.22, 55.01 to 75.72, 74.37 % on the fourth day. Additionally, the characteristics of the precipitates were analyzed by x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). Results showed that the precipitates were mainly present as jarosites and A. ferrooxidans was conducive to producing precipitates with good crystalline form and uniform dispersion with pH decrease, redox potential (ORP) increase, and iron oxidation. It can be concluded that the chromium could be incorporated into the jarosites through a certain biochemical reaction such as structural substitution, which shows a potential to remove chromium from wastewater by the bio-coprecipitation.
- Subjects
THIOBACILLUS ferrooxidans; CHROMIUM; COPRECIPITATION (Chemistry); X-ray diffraction; SCANNING electron microscopy; FOURIER transform infrared spectroscopy; OXIDATION-reduction reaction
- Publication
Water, Air & Soil Pollution, 2014, Vol 225, Issue 8, p1
- ISSN
0049-6979
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11270-014-2071-1