Removal of Zinc ions from industrial wastewater with wool fibers

الملخص EN

In this research, the efficiency of low-cost unmodified wool fibers was used to remove zinc ion from industrial wastewater.

Removal of zinc ion was achieved at 99.52 % by using simple wool column.

The experiment was carried out under varying conditions of (2h) contact time, metal ion concentration (50mg / l), wool fibers quantity to treated water (70g / l), pH(7) & acid concentration (0.05M).

The aim of this method is to use a high sensitive, available & cheap natural material which applied successfully for industrial wastewater& synthetic water, where zinc ion concentration was reduced from (14.6mg / l) to (0.07mg / l) & consequently the hazardous effect of contamination was minimized.