Sustainable and efficient technologies for removal and recovery of toxic and valuable metals from wastewater: Recent progress, challenges, and future perspectives

A Abidli, Y Huang, ZB Rejeb, A Zaoui, CB Park - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to their numerous effects on human health and the natural environment, water
contamination with heavy metals and metalloids, caused by their extensive use in various …

Recent advancements in the removal/recovery of toxic metals from aquatic system using flotation techniques

G Pooja, PS Kumar, S Indraganti - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The paramount cause of water scarcity is pollution, which is becoming a massive issue since
the last century. Besides, it is evident that water pollution is the main cause of emerging …

Study on the removal of hazardous Congo red from aqueous solutions by chelation flocculation and precipitation flotation process

G Han, Y Du, Y Huang, W Wang, S Su, B Liu - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Dyes are intensively used in textile and dyeing industries, and substantial volumes of
organic wastewater with residual dye require treatment before discharges to public …

Efficient removal of hazardous benzohydroxamic acid (BHA) contaminants from the industrial beneficiation wastewaters by facile precipitation flotation process

G Han, Y Du, Y Huang, S Yang, W Wang, S Su… - Separation and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Benzohydroxamic acid (BHA) is intensively used as collector in the mineral processing
industry, and thus tremendous hazardous beneficiation wastewater containing BHA organic …

Study on the effect of flocculation morphology on the floatability of talc flocs and the adhesion mechanism with air bubbles

W Yin, Y Xie, J Yao, N Song, K Chen, X Yin - Minerals Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
This study investigates the impact of floc morphology on flotation by preparing two types of
flocs with similar apparent particle sizes but different aggregation degrees through varying …

A review and perspective on micro and nanobubbles: What They Are and Why They Matter

G Han, S Chen, S Su, Y Huang, B Liu, H Sun - Minerals Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past two decades, there has been a rapid growth in the research and extraordinary
applications of micro and nanobubbles due to their unique physicochemical properties …

Removal of Fe (III), Cd (II), and Zn (II) as hydroxides by precipitation–flotation system

LZ Serrano, NO Lara, RR Vera, D Cholico-González - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a combined precipitation–flotation system is proposed for the removal of Fe
(III), Zn (II), and Cd (II) as hydroxides. The efficiency of precipitation, as a function of pH …

Rhenium extraction from dilute solution by precipitation flotation and oxidative volatilization techniques

G Han, Y Wang, B Liu, Y Huang, S Su, H Sun… - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The low mass transfer effect of dilute solution results in low recovery efficiency of critical
metal Re ions from ultralow-concentration metallurgical industrial effluents. Bubble driving …

Improved dye and heavy metal ions removal in saline solutions by electric field-assisted gravity driven filtration using nanofiber membranes with asymmetric micro …

M Zhu, Z Cao, H Yang, Z Xu, C Cheng - Separation and Purification …, 2022 - Elsevier
The present study presents a new strategy to remove dye and heavy metal ions from saline
solution by using a membrane with asymmetric micro/nano channel structures for electric …

A critical review on the removal and recovery of hazardous Cd from Cd-containing secondary resources in Cu-Pb-Zn smelting processes

G Han, J Wang, H Sun, B Liu, Y Huang - Metals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to the advancement of industrialization and the development of the metal smelting
industry, cadmium (Cd), as a highly toxic heavy metal element, is discharged into the natural …