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Chelant-Assisted Depollution of Metal-Contaminated Fe-Coated Sands and Subsequent Recovery of the Chemicals Using Solid-Phase Extraction Systems

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The disposal of potentially toxic element (PTE)-loaded sludge that is produced during industrial or commercial wastewater treatments evoke concerns because of the probability of hazardous environmental consequences. In the current work, we proposed a chelant-assisted decontamination technique of the laboratory-produced PTE-loaded (As, Cd, Pb) polymeric-Fe-coated sludge and subsequent recovery of the chelants and PTEs. The chelant options include both biodegradable (EDDS, GLDA, and HIDS) and non-biodegradable (EDTA) alternatives. The washing performance was compared and discussed in terms of the solution pH and relative stabilities of the complexes of PTEs and chelants in solution. The changes in solution pH or chelants have no significant effect on the chelant-induced removal efficiency of Cd, and the same result was observed for Pb at extreme and moderate acidic pH. The As-extraction rate is also improved with chelant in the solution despite a limited interaction between the chelant and the arsenic species in the solution. The column-packed solid-phase extraction (SPE) system, which was equipped with macrocycle, chelating resin, or ion-exchange resin, was used to explore the corresponding separation performance of the PTEs and chelant. The macrocycle-equipped SPE system shows better selectivity than other SPEs in terms of extraction and recovery performance of the PTEs regardless of the chelants. Some unique points of the proposed process are minimum environmental burden due to the use of biodegradable materials in the washing solution and cost minimization by recycling the ingredients.

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Acknowledgments

The study was partially supported by the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (24310056) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. One of the authors, Ismail M. M. Rahman, acknowledges the financial grant from the Public Foundation of Chubu Science and Technology Center, Japan, to support his research at Kanazawa University, Japan. The authors also acknowledge the kind support from Dr. Md. Alamgir (Department of Soil Science, University of Chittagong, Chittagong 4331, Bangladesh) for the statistical analysis of the data.

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  1. Department of Applied and Environmental Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, 4331, Bangladesh

    Ismail M. M. Rahman

  2. Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kakuma, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan

    Ismail M. M. Rahman, Hikaru Sawai & Masashi Ogino

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Southern University, 739/A Mehedibag Road, Chittagong, 4000, Bangladesh

    Zinnat A. Begum

  4. GL Sciences Inc., Nishishinjuku 6-22-1, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 163-1130, Japan

    Yoshiaki Furusho

  5. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka City University, Sugimoto 3-3-138, Sumiyoshi-Ku, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan

    Satoshi Mizutani

  6. Institute of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kakuma, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan

    Hiroshi Hasegawa

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Rahman, I.M.M., Begum, Z.A., Sawai, H. et al. Chelant-Assisted Depollution of Metal-Contaminated Fe-Coated Sands and Subsequent Recovery of the Chemicals Using Solid-Phase Extraction Systems. Water Air Soil Pollut 226, 37 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-015-2312-y

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