scholarly journals Removal of Arsenite and Arsenate by Indigenous Iron Ores of Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-302
Author(s):  
Zulfiqar Ali Bhatti

This study is focusing on the comparative study of arsenite and arsenate adsorption from the water via indigenous iron ores. The Sindh and Punjab provinces of Pakistan are badly affected by Arsenic (As) toxicity as the people are consuming arsenic contaminated groundwater. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of anions on adsorption of arsenite As(III) and arsenate As(V). Impact of pH, contact time, adsorbent dose and shaking speed on adsorption of arsenite and arsenate is studied with the two selected iron ores from Hoshi and Shikarap from Balochistan. Hoshi and Shikarap ores exhibited higher As(III) and As (V) adsorption, respectively thus selected for further removal studies. Hoshi iron ore without sodium carbonate yields higher adsorption as compared to the samples with 100 mg/L and 1000 mg/L sodium carbonate in both As(III) and As(V). Hoshi ore exhibited the highest adsorption of 85% for As (V) without sodium phosphate dibasic and 83% for As(III). Shikarap ore for As(V) adsorbs 75% without sodium phosphate dibasic and 67% adsorption for As(III) without sodium phosphate dibasic. Shikarap ore with sodium silicate at 100 mg/L adsorbs 62% As(III) and at 1000 mg/L adsorb 52% As(III). Shikarap ore As(V) adsorption decreases from 75% without sodium silicate to 70% at 100 mg/L and even lower adsorption of 65% at a higher concentration of 1000 mg/L.

2013 ◽  
Vol 701 ◽  
pp. 28-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rusila Zamani Abd Rashid ◽  
Hadi Purwanto ◽  
Hamzah Mohd Salleh ◽  
Mohd Hanafi Ani ◽  
Nurul Azhani Yunus ◽  
...  

This paper pertains to the reduction process of local low grade iron ore using palm kernel shell (PKS). It is well known that low grade iron ores contain high amount of gangue minerals and combined water. Biomass waste (aka agro-residues) from the palm oil industry is an attractive alternative fuel to replace coal as the source of energy in mineral processing, including for the treatment and processing of low grade iron ores. Both iron ore and PKS were mixed with minute addition of distilled water and then fabricated with average spherical diameter of 10-12mm. The green composite pellets were subjected to reduction test using an electric tube furnace. The rate of reduction increased as temperature increases up to 900 °C. The Fe content in the original ore increased almost 12% when 40 mass% of PKS was used. The reduction of 60:40 mass ratios of iron ore to PKS composite pellet produced almost 11.97 mass% of solid carbon which was dispersed uniformly on the surface of iron oxide. The aim of this work is to study carbon deposition of PKS in iron ore through reduction process. Utilization of carbon deposited in low grade iron ore is an interesting method for iron making process as this solid carbon can act as energy source in the reduction process.


2020 ◽  
Vol 201 ◽  
pp. 01026
Author(s):  
Mykola Stupnik ◽  
Vsevolod Kalinichenko ◽  
Olena Kalinichenko ◽  
Sofiia Yakovlieva

The work considers conditions of deep levels of the Underground Mine Group for underground ore mining (as underground mines) of the Mining Department of the PJSC “ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih” (the PJSC “ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih”). The research aims to improve indicators of mined ore mass extraction when mining rich iron ores through studying and optimizing consumption of explosives, enhancing mining technology to provide fulfilment of the underground iron ore mining program. During the research, there are analyzed mining geological and technical conditions of the deposit mining as well as current technologies of iron ore mining at the Underground Mine Group of the PJSC “ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih”. The work analyzes the achieved indices and consumption of explosives for drilling and blasting at the Underground Mine Group. The mining geological and technical conditions of the deposit mining as well as current technologies of mining, parameters of preparatory operations, the nomenclature and qualitative characteristics of many types of explosives are determined to have changed. This complicates planning consumption of explosives and making their estimates for work sites. However, this is a reason for selecting highly efficient technology and machinery in deteriorating mining and geological conditions of operating at over 1200 m depths. The work determines dependencies of a stress value on a mining depth and physical properties of rocks, as well as parameters of drilling and blasting operations considering the stress-strain state of the massif under high rock pressure at deep levels of the Mining Group of the PJSC “ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih”.


2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
X.B. Huang ◽  
X X.W. ◽  
J.J. Song ◽  
C.G. Bai ◽  
R.D. Zhang ◽  
...  

The relative contact angle (?RCA) for seven iron ore fines was measured by using Washburn Osmotic Pressure method under laboratory conditions. By choosing cyclohexane as the reference that can perfectly wet iron ore particles, the relative contact angles were measured and varied from 57? to 73?. With the volume % of goethite (?G) as the variable, a new model for relative contact angle was developed. The expected relative contact angle for pure goethite is about 56?, while that for goethite free samples is about 77?. Physical properties, such as surface morphology (SMI) and pore volume (Vpore) can influence the relative contact angle. The ?G can be expressed as a function of SMI and VPore. Thus, we inferred that the relative contact angle is a function of ?G for the iron ores used. The measured relative contact angles were found to be in good agreement (Radj 2 >0.97) with the calculated ones based on the research from Iveson, et al. (2004). Comparing with the model developed by Iveson et al.(2004), the new model for contact angle proposed in this paper is similar, but more detailed with two meaningful physical parameters. The modification of physicochemical properties on iron ores would be another topic in the further study on granulation.


2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 262-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan A. Bernal ◽  
Rackel San Nicolas ◽  
Jannie S. J. van Deventer ◽  
John L. Provis

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (43) ◽  
pp. 9928-9940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yann Foucaud ◽  
Michaël Badawi ◽  
Lev O. Filippov ◽  
Odile Barres ◽  
Inna V. Filippova ◽  
...  

FTIR, XPS, and ab initio molecular dynamics studies demonstrated that sodium silicate (Na2SiO3) adsorbs on fluorite with a higher affinity when they are treated beforehand by sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) due to proton exchange(s).


Minerals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liu ◽  
Wang ◽  
Xiao ◽  
Wang ◽  
Deng ◽  
...  

This paper studies the effects of sodium polystyrene sulfonate (PSSNa) used as a depressant upon the separation of ilmenite from titanaugite through flotation when sodium oleate (NaOl) is used as a collector by performing single mineral flotation experiments. The depression mechanism of PSSNa on titanaugite flotation was studied by electrokinetic potential and adsorbed amount measurements together with FTIR and XPS detection. Single mineral flotation experiments show that PSSNa is a selective depressant for the separation of ilmenite and titanaugite via flotation with NaOl as the collector. The results of the adsorbed amount tests show that the biggest distinction is in terms of the amount of NaOl adsorbed on the surfaces of ilmenite and titanaugite; the amount is expanded from 2.28 × 10−7 to 9.34 × 10−7 mol/m2 when the dosage of PSSNa is 1 mg/L, as compared with no PSSNa, suggesting that PSSNa is a selective depressant when separating ilmenite and titanaugite through flotation. FTIR testing shows that chemisorption has occurred between the –SO3− groups of the molecular PSSNa and titanaugite surfaces. The results of further XPS testing reveal that PSSNa chemically interacts with Ca/Mg/Al/Fe on the titanaugite surface. The test results of FTIR in combination with XPS confirm that PSSNa stops NaOl from interacting with Mg, Fe, Al, and Ca on the titanaugite surface, and this outcome is the main reason for the widening of the adsorption quantity gap of NaOl on titanaugite and ilmenite surfaces, and titanaugite flotation is suppressed. The results of the comparison flotation testing on actual Panzhihua titanic iron ore (TiO2 grade: 15.63%) with titanaugite as the main gangue show that a better effect is obtained by replacing sodium silicate (SS) with PSSNa, and the recovery of TiO2 using PSSNa is higher than that when using sodium silicate. In a closed circuit flotation test, ilmenite concentrate is obtained with a TiO2 grade of 45.97% and a recovery of 76.32% by using PSSNa as a titanaugite depressant.


2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 869-875
Author(s):  
Gi Wook Cha ◽  
Won Hwa Hong ◽  
Sung Woo Shin

In recent year, Korea relies on imports for most of the iron ore, the main raw material of rebar, resulting in CO2 pollution with lots of energy consumption. Hereupon, this study carried out the research on the energy consumption and CO2 emissions of the recycled rebar using the wasted steel from building demolition. For that, this study worked out the energy consumption and CO2 emissions in the process of generation, transportation and production of wasted steel and, on the basis of which, it conducted the comparative study with virgin materials. The major research results are as follows: First, the energy consumption and CO2 emissions of the recycled rebar were found to be highest in the process of its production at 89.2% and 85%, respectively. In addition, in the comparison between recycled rebar and virgin material, the former was found to be most advantageous in energy consumption. On the contrary, as for CO2 emissions, the recycled rebar showed a 88.3% reduction possibility of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions comparing to statistics of input-output analysis based on competition inducement coefficient, but it was found to be more disadvantageous from the perspective of GHG reduction than the statistics of input-output analysis based on non-competition inducement coefficient.


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