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Brian Mwewa
School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa

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Journal article
Published: 10 August 2020 in Minerals
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Acid mine drainage (AMD), red mud (RM) and coal fly ash (CFA) are potential high environmental pollution problems due to their acidity, toxic metals and sulphate contents. Treatment of acidic mine water requires the generation of enough alkalinity to neutralize the excess acidity. Therefore, red mud types from Germany and Greece were chosen for the neutralization of AMD from South Africa, where this problem is notorious. Because of the high alkalinity, German red mud is the most promising precipitation agent achieving the highest pH-values. CFA is less efficient for a neutralization and precipitation process. An increase in temperature increases the adsorption kinetics. The maximum pH-value of 6.0 can be reached by the addition of 100 g German red mud at 20 °C to AMD-water with an initial pH value of 1.9. German red mud removes 99% of the aluminium as aluminium hydroxide at pH 5.0. The rare earth elements (yttrium and cerium) are adsorbed by Greek red mud with an efficiency of 50% and 80% at 60 °C in 5 min, respectively.

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Viktoria Keller; Srecko Stopic; Buhle Xakalashe; Yiqian Ma; Sehliselo Ndlovu; Brian Mwewa; Geoffrey Simate; Bernd Friedrich. Effectiveness of Fly Ash and Red Mud as Strategies for Sustainable Acid Mine Drainage Management. Minerals 2020, 10, 707 .

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Viktoria Keller, Srecko Stopic, Buhle Xakalashe, Yiqian Ma, Sehliselo Ndlovu, Brian Mwewa, Geoffrey Simate, Bernd Friedrich. Effectiveness of Fly Ash and Red Mud as Strategies for Sustainable Acid Mine Drainage Management. Minerals. 2020; 10 (8):707.

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Viktoria Keller; Srecko Stopic; Buhle Xakalashe; Yiqian Ma; Sehliselo Ndlovu; Brian Mwewa; Geoffrey Simate; Bernd Friedrich. 2020. "Effectiveness of Fly Ash and Red Mud as Strategies for Sustainable Acid Mine Drainage Management." Minerals 10, no. 8: 707.

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Published: 09 March 2020 in Sustainability
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This paper critically discusses the structure, properties and applications of ironmaking and steelmaking slags and their silicate-based variants as low-cost adsorbents for removing cations and anions from industrial effluents and wastewater. Undoubtedly, the performance of slag-based adsorbents depends on their physical, chemical and phase chemical properties. The presence of crystalline phases, for example, has a significant effect on the adsorption capacity. However, despite their low cost and ubiquity, their chemical and geometric heterogeneity significantly affects the performance and applications of slag-based adsorbents. These challenges notwithstanding, the efficacy of slag-based adsorbents can be significantly enhanced through purposeful activation to increase the specific surface area and density of adsorption sites on the surfaces of adsorbent particles. The synthesis of functionalised adsorbents such as geopolymers, zeolites and layered double hydroxides from silicate and aluminosilicate precursors can also significantly increase the performance of slag-based adsorbents. In addition, the ability to stabilise the dissolved and/or entrained toxic metal species in stable phases in slags, either through controlled post-process fluxing or crystallisation, can significantly enhance the environmental performance of slag-based adsorbents. Most critical in the design of future slag-based adsorbents is the integration of the engineered properties of molten and solidified slags to the recovery and stabilisation of dissolved and/or entrained metals.

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James Manchisi; Elias Matinde; Neil A. Rowson; Mark J. H. Simmons; Geoffrey S. Simate; Sehliselo Ndlovu; Brian Mwewa. Ironmaking and Steelmaking Slags as Sustainable Adsorbents for Industrial Effluents and Wastewater Treatment: A Critical Review of Properties, Performance, Challenges and Opportunities. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2118 .

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James Manchisi, Elias Matinde, Neil A. Rowson, Mark J. H. Simmons, Geoffrey S. Simate, Sehliselo Ndlovu, Brian Mwewa. Ironmaking and Steelmaking Slags as Sustainable Adsorbents for Industrial Effluents and Wastewater Treatment: A Critical Review of Properties, Performance, Challenges and Opportunities. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (5):2118.

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James Manchisi; Elias Matinde; Neil A. Rowson; Mark J. H. Simmons; Geoffrey S. Simate; Sehliselo Ndlovu; Brian Mwewa. 2020. "Ironmaking and Steelmaking Slags as Sustainable Adsorbents for Industrial Effluents and Wastewater Treatment: A Critical Review of Properties, Performance, Challenges and Opportunities." Sustainability 12, no. 5: 2118.

Journal article
Published: 29 October 2019 in Metals
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The wastes generated from both operational and abandoned coal and metal mining are an environmental concern. These wastes, including acid mine drainage (AMD), are treated to abate the devastating effects they have on the environment before disposal. However, AMD contains valuable resources that can be recovered to subsidize treatment costs. Two of the major constituents of coal AMD are iron and aluminium, which can be recovered and engineered to function as coagulants. This work examines the potential of producing a poly-alumino-ferric sulphate (AMD-PAFS) coagulant from coal acidic drainage solutions. The co-precipitation of iron and aluminium is conducted at pH values of 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 using sodium hydroxide in order to evaluate the recovery of iron and aluminium as hydroxide precipitates while minimizing the co-precipitation of the other heavy metals. The precipitation at pH 5.0 yields iron and aluminium recovery of 99.9 and 94.7%, respectively. An increase in the pH from 5.0 to 7.0 increases the recovery of aluminium to 99.1%, while the recovery of iron remains the same. The precipitate formed at pH 5.0 is used to produce a coagulant consisting of 89.5% and 10.0% iron and aluminium, respectively. The production of the coagulant is carried out by dissolving the precipitate in 5.0% (w/w) sulphuric acid. Subsequently, the treatment of the brewery wastewater shows that the AMD-PAFS coagulant is as efficient as the conventional poly ferric sulphate (PFS) coagulant. The turbidity removal is 91.9 and 87.8%, while the chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal is 56.0 and 64.0% for AMD-PAFS and PFS coagulants, respectively. The developed process, which can easily be incorporated into existing AMD treatment plants, not only reduces the sludge disposal problems but also creates revenue from waste.

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Brian Mwewa; Srećko Stopić; Sehliselo Ndlovu; Geoffrey S. Simate; Buhle Xakalashe; Bernd Friedrich. Synthesis of Poly-Alumino-Ferric Sulphate Coagulant from Acid Mine Drainage by Precipitation. Metals 2019, 9, 1166 .

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Brian Mwewa, Srećko Stopić, Sehliselo Ndlovu, Geoffrey S. Simate, Buhle Xakalashe, Bernd Friedrich. Synthesis of Poly-Alumino-Ferric Sulphate Coagulant from Acid Mine Drainage by Precipitation. Metals. 2019; 9 (11):1166.

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Brian Mwewa; Srećko Stopić; Sehliselo Ndlovu; Geoffrey S. Simate; Buhle Xakalashe; Bernd Friedrich. 2019. "Synthesis of Poly-Alumino-Ferric Sulphate Coagulant from Acid Mine Drainage by Precipitation." Metals 9, no. 11: 1166.