1st Edition

Simultaneous Sulfate Reduction and Metal Precipitation in an Inverse Fluidized Bed Reactor UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

By Denys Kristalia Villa Gomez Copyright 2013
200 Pages
by CRC Press

206 Pages
by CRC Press

Industrial activities like textile processing and mining are typical sources of heavy metal-rich wastewaters. The sulfate reducing process has become an attractive method for the production of sulfide to precipitate metals since most of these streams also contain sulfate, which is the electron acceptor and, in less common cases, chemical oxygen demand which is the electron donor of sulfate... Read more

1 General introduction

2 Effect of sulfide concentration on the location of the metal sulfide precipitates in the IFB reactor

3 Influence of sulfide concentration and macronutrients on the metal sulfide precipitates characteristics

4 Effect of hydraulic retention time on the sulfate reduction process and the metal sulfide precipitates characteristics

5 Tuning strategies to control the sulfide concentration using a pS electrode in the IFB reactor

6 Effect of pH on the morphology, mineralogy and liquid-solid phase separation of Cu and Zn precipitates produced with biogenic sulfide

7 Factorial design and response surface analyses to understand the effect of process variables on the sulfate reduction process in the IFB reactor

8 General discussion and recommendations

Biography

Denys Kristalia Villa Gomez (Author)