Heavy metal adsorption of waste waters from chemical laboratory using firebrick. Case study : Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study the heavy metal removal from wastewater from laboratory by using adsorption process with firebricks. Waste water was collected among three courses of laboratory, such as analytical chemistry, principle chemistry and chemistry for engineers. The optimized absorption efficiencies of multi-elements with stirring time, volume ratio and temperature were 2 hours, 10 g/100 mL and room temperature, respectively. It was found that absorption efficiencies of lead (Pb), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), chromium (Cr) were 65.1, 54.8, 63.4% and ND, respectively.