Total removal of heavy metal from mixed plating rinse wastewater

• Main Authors: Sapari, Nasiman, Idris, Azni, Ab. Hamid, Noor Hisham
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Elsevier 1996
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/8740/1/Total%20removal%20of%20heavy%20metal%20from%20mixed%20plating%20rinse%20wastewater.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/8740/7/1-s2.0-S0011916496001397-main.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/8740/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011916496001397
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

A mixed plating rinse wastewater containing zinc, hexavalent chromium, trivalent chromium, and cyanide with total dissolved solids of 424 mg/1 was treated by a model consisting of a sand filter and ion exchange columns. A strongly acidic cation resin in hydrogen form and a strongly basic anion resin in hydroxide form were used in the columns as cationic and anionic exchangers, respectively. The cationic and anionic exchangers were regenerated by using 2% H2SO4 and 5% NaOH, respectively. A 100% removal of zinc, total chromium, hexavalent chromium and trivalent chromium was achieved in the studies. Very high removal of total dissolved solids, cyanide and hardness level was achieved at 98.9%, 99.9% and 96.5%, respectively. The conductivity of wastewater was reduced from an average of 358 μs/cm to 5 μs/cm. The case study has shown that treatment systems using cationic and anionic resin were able to treat a mixed plating bath effluent to comply with the standard discharge under the Malaysian Environmental Quality (Sewage and Industrial Effluents) Regulation, 1979.