Cyanide Mitigation at Steel Metallurgical Process’s Effluent

• Published in: Water, air, and soil pollution air, and soil pollution, 2023-11, Vol.234 (11), p.682-682, Article 682
• Main Authors: Pandey, Neha, Dutta, Sunanda, Biswas, Pinakpani
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Activated carbon; Adsorption; air; Ammonia; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Bioremediation; Catalysts; Catalytic cracking; Chemical oxygen demand; Chemical precipitation; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; coal; Coke; Coke oven gas; Coke ovens; Cyanide process; Cyanides; death; Earth and Environmental Science; Economic benefits; Economics; Efficiency; Effluents; Environment; Environmental monitoring; Heavy metals; Hydrocarbons; Hydrogen peroxide; Hydrogeology; hypochlorites; Manufacturing industry; Membrane separation; Methods; Mitigation; Organic compounds; ovens; Oxidants; Oxidation; Oxidizing agents; Ozone; phenol; Phenols; photocatalysts; Pollutants; Pyrolysis; Reagents; soil; Soil Science & Conservation; Steel; Steel industry; Steel making; Steel production; Toxicity; water; Water pollution; Water Quality/Water Pollution; Water treatment
• ISSN: 0049-6979; 1573-2932
• DOI: 10.1007/s11270-023-06679-w

Cyanide is the main organic pollutant obtained in the water bodies of steel manufacturing plants. Cyanide generation takes place during the pyrolysis of coal for coke formation. Organic compounds such as cyanide, ammonia, phenol, and others are found in bodies of water after the coke oven gas is quenched. Highly hazardous nature and fatality of cyanide demand its effective remediation, with environmental norms stating (