Recycling of Waste Egg Shells for Treatment of Laboratory Wastewater containing Heavy Metals

중금속 함유 실험실 폐수처리를 위한 폐달걀껍질의 재활용

The purposes of this research were to evaluate the character of laboratory wastewater, and to examine the utilization of waste egg shells for neutralization and removal of heavy metals. Waste egg shells are excellent at neutralizing acidic wastewater, because they have alkaline minerals such as calcium. It must be seemed that removal rate of heavy metals were very influenced by adsobent dosage and adsorbate concentrations, because waste egg shells acted as precipitation and adsorption. If we reflected the adsorption capacity(k) and adsorption(1/n) of Freundlich isotherm, we couldn't consider waste egg shells as a good adsorbent. In view of these results, it showed that wastes containing the similar compositions as waste egg shells could utilize the neutralization, precipitation and adsorption of heavy metals in laboratory wastewater.

본 연구에서는 폐기물의 재활용 측면에서 폐달걀껍질에 의한 중화능을 파악하는 동시에 중금속 제거 가능성을 고찰하였다. 폐달걀껍질 자체내에 Ca와 같은 알칼리성 성분으로 인하여 pH 상승효과가 탁월하며, 또한 폐수중의 중금속은 pH 상승으로 인하여 수산화물로 침전 제거되는 것으로 여겨진다. 폐달걀껍질은 응집 침전 및 흡착제로써 역할을 하기 때문에 주입량과 흡착질 농도에 영향을 받는 것으로 여겨진다. 흡착강도 1/n 값은0.35~0.44의 범위이며 Cu>Pb>Cr의 순으로 높게 나타났으나 흡착용량 k 값은 2.61~3.26의 범위이며 Pb>Cr>Cu의 순으로 높게 나타내었다.