title: The use of low-cost adsorbents for wastewater purification in mining industries.
abstract: Recently, great attention has been paid to the environmental problems in mining industry. At present there are different ways of mineral processing, as well as various methods of wastewater treatment, most of them are expensive. Work is ongoing to find low-cost treatments. In this article, low-cost adsorbents, potentially useful for wastewater treatment on mining and metallurgical plants, are reviewed; their characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages of their application are compared. Also adsorption of different metals and radioactive compounds from acidic environment similar to composition of mining and metallurgical wastewaters is considered.
authors: Laboratory of Green Chemistry, Department of Energy and Environmental Technology, The Faculty of Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Sammonkatu 12, 50130, Mikkeli, Finland, evgenia.iakovleva@lut.fi.
authors: Evgenia
authors: E
authors: Iakovleva
authors: Mika
authors: M
authors: Sillanpää
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D008669:Metallurgy / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods; D008670:Metals / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D008906:Mining / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D062065:Wastewater / Q000737:chemistry*; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D018508:Water Purification / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D008670:Metals; D062065:Wastewater; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical