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Main Title Foam flotation treatment of industrial wastewaters : laboratory and pilot scale /
Author Wilson, David J., ; Thackston, Edward L.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Thackston, Edward L.
CORP Author Cinncinnati, OH; Industrial Environmental Research Lab.-Cincinnati, OH.
Publisher Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Available through the National Technical Information Service.
Year Published 1980
Report Number EPA-600/2-80-138; EPA-R-806338; EPA-R-804438
Stock Number PB80-212905
OCLC Number 13595021
Subjects Factory and trade waste--United States ; Sewage--Purification--Flotation ; Surface active agents
Additional Subjects Flotation ; Metals ; Zinc ; Cobalt ; Nickel ; Chromium ; Cyanides ; Lead(Metal) ; Copper ; Surfactant ; Performance evaluation ; Froth flotation
Internet Access
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https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=91014LR6.PDF
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EHAM  QH541.R2 EPA-, 600/2, 80-138 Region 1 Library/Boston,MA 04/29/2016
EJBD  EPA 600-2-80-138 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 04/11/2014
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 600-2-80-138 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
ESAD  EPA 600-2-80-138 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 03/23/2010
NTIS  PB80-212905 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation x, 133 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Abstract
A floc foam flotation pilot plant was shown to remove lead and zinc in dilute aqueous solution to quite low concentrations. The results suggest several design improvements. These include: (1) a larger mixer-flocculation tank to increase the detention time of the floc before flotation; (2) increased baffling of the stripping column section, to decrease channelling and foam overturn at high loadings; and (3) a decrease in the length of the foam drainage section of the column, to decrease the tendency of the foam to collapse before dishcarge....The flotation of Fe(OH)3 flocs with NLS is impeded by several polyvalent anions, some of which occur in inudstrial cleaners. These anions displace surfactant from the floc, rendering it unfloatable. This phenomenon, an interference in waste treatment, could be used to relcaim surfactant from flotation sludges. A surface adsorption model for floc foam floatation was anlayzed and found to account for the effects of surfactant concentration, ionic strength, specifically adsorbed ions, and surfactant hydrocarbon chain length.
Notes
Prepared for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, Ohio, under grant no. R-804438. Includes bibliographical references (pages 86-91).