Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Material Science, Energy and Environmental Engineering (MSEEE 2018)

The treatment of U-containing wastewater by electro-deposition

Authors
Fangying Gao, Xiaowen Zhang, Shaoyan Lv, Xiaoyan Wu, Mi Li
Corresponding Author
Fangying Gao
Available Online August 2018.
DOI
10.2991/mseee-18.2018.39How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Uranium, Electro-deposition, Magnetite, U-containing wastewater.
Abstract

A new method for treating U-containing wastewater and recovering of uranium simultaneously by electro-deposition was proposed. The complexity of adsorbent preparation and difficulty in uranium recovery that existed in traditional adsorption method are solved by electro-deposition approach. The iron and graphite are used as anode electrode and cathode electrode in this experiment, respectively. The innovative view in this study is to promote the rapid generation of magnetite stemmed from iron dissolution under direct current. The uranium is incorporated or adsorbed to the magnetite through accurate controlling experimental conditions. The effects of initial U-concentration, voltage, electrode spacing, ion concentration, pH value on uranium removal efficiencies were investigated. Uranium removal efficiencies reached 83.5% under laboratory conditions that uranium concentration at 10mg/L, voltage at 30V, electrode spacing at 5 cm, ion concentration at 3 g/L, at pH 3.45. It is the advantages of U-containing magnetic is easily separated from aqueous solution and can be utilized as secondary low grade uranium deposit after treatment that making this method has a bright prospect.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Material Science, Energy and Environmental Engineering (MSEEE 2018)
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
August 2018
ISBN
10.2991/mseee-18.2018.39
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/mseee-18.2018.39How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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