Utilização de turfa para remoção de metais potencialmente tóxicos de uma empresa recicladora de plásticos

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Miyuki Elsa Kunisawa [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Turfa; Adsorção; Metais
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/132130; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/24-11-2015/000854196.pdf

Peat has been used as a natural adsorbent for metals. Its application for removal of these elements of a plastic recycling company effluent may become an alternative tool economically viable in order to attend the effluent discharge standards required by law. This paper details the peat adsorption characteristics relative to ions: aluminum, cadmium, copper, nickel, lead and zinc through the physicochemical characterization of the study material. The used peat was collected in the state of Sergipe. It was found that the material is highly porous. The analysis of infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance confirmed the presence of functional groups expected for this type of material, with a predominant presence of aliphatic groups. Adsorption experiments were conducted to determine the equilibrium time, the adsorption isotherm and kinetics, resulting in the Langmuir isotherm and the kinetics of adsorption pseudo-second order. The peat efficiency on effluent application was studied in batch and column testing. The best metal adsorbed with high adsorption speed was Pb. Removal of the metals showed be more efficiently for the column test with efficiency higher than 90% at concentrations up to 6.5 mg L-1, and the percolation of the solution occurred using the column without exchange of peat