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A Comparison Between Recycled Spent Zeolite and Calcite Limestone for Manganese Removal

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Proceedings of the 3rd Pan American Materials Congress

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The current work initially investigated the manganese removal by sorption in a recycled spent zeolite (faujasite) used in the oil industry. Equilibrium adsorption was described by the Langmuir isotherm (r2 > 0.99) with a maximum loading of 10.9 mg/g-zeolite. The performance of the spent zeolite was compared with that of limestone (a low cost sorbent). In this latter case, equilibrium sorption was also modelled using the Langmuir isotherms with 1.03 mg/g-limestone as maximum uptake. Fixed-bed sorption on both materials was also studied and solid loadings increased with the aqueous metal concentration. The Thomas model was selected to describe the breakthrough curves and showed good correlation with the experimental data for both samples and indicated a maximum solid uptake of 0.33 mg/g-solid in faujasite and 0.03 mg/g in limestone.

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Funding provided by Vale and the agencies FINEP, CAPES, CNPq and FAPEMIG are acknowledged.

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  1. Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Campus Morro do Cruzeiro S/N Bauxita, Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil

    Adarlene M. Silva, Rodrigo S. Figueiredo & Versiane A. Leao

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  1. Dept. of Nanoengineering, MC 0448, University of California-San Diego Dept. of Nanoengineering, MC 0448, LA JOLLA, California, USA

    Marc André Meyers

  2. ESFM-IPN , Mexico City, Mexico

    Hector Alfredo Calderon Benavides

  3. UTN-National University of Technology , Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Sonia P Brühl

  4. Universidad de Antioquia , Medellín, Colombia

    Henry A Colorado

  5. Pratt & Whitney Canada , Longueuil, Canada

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  6. Military Institute of Engineering , Rio de Janerio, Brazil

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  7. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais , Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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  8. Ternium Mexico , Nuevo León, Mexico

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  9. Division of Materials Sci & Engg, Hanyang University Division of Materials Sci & Engg, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Megumi Kawasaki

  10. Dept. Engineering & the Environment, University of Southampton Dept. Engineering & the Environment, Southampton, United Kingdom

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  11. University of Concepción , Concepción, Chile

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  12. Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería , Lima, Peru

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Silva, A.M., Figueiredo, R.S., Leao, V.A. (2017). A Comparison Between Recycled Spent Zeolite and Calcite Limestone for Manganese Removal. In: Meyers, M., et al. Proceedings of the 3rd Pan American Materials Congress. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52132-9_11

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