Eva Chmielewská
AN UPDATE OF WATER CLEANUP ONTO CLINOPTILOLITE RICH TUFF – VIA THE PAST TO THE PRESENT
Volume 22 – No 10a. 2013 Fresenius Environmental Bulletin
Abstract
The topic of this paper is to review some results of laboratory and field applications of clinoptilolite-rich tuff, deposited at the Slovakian repository, which have been achieved in the last 25 years. Since this research is extended,
the overview is limited and highlighting only those results, which concern the surface treated, and thus, the broadened adsorption properties of clinoptilolite-rich tuff incl. the results realized in pilot applications. The zeolite
ion exchange pilot installation (ZIEPI) with a hydraulic loading rate of 900 L h-1 was situated at the field experimental facility of Water Research Institute in Vajnory, during autumn 1986. Ammonia removal from tannery
wastewater using the clinoptilolite-rich tuff with chemical regeneration and regenerant recovery by air stripping was carried out during several months in 1987 at the mixed Wastewater Reclamation Facility in TOMA, Share Holding
Company, Otrokovice (Moravia region of former Czechoslovakia).
