... of Chapter 12.
2 Cyanide in Water and Soil
contamination in water and soil. This book presents current scientific understanding and engineering
approaches for managing water and soil contamination ... Compounds in Nature 5
1.4.1 Cyanide in Outer Space 5
1.4.2 Hydrogen Cyanide in Earth’s Atmosphere 5
1.5 Cyanide in Industry 6
1.6 Cyanide Releases to Water...
... produce cyanide
as a by-product include chemical manufacturing, iron and steel making, petroleum refining, and
aluminum smelting. An example of a past industry that generated cyanide- bearing wastewaters ... physical and chemical forms of
cyanide that occur in water and soil systems. In the following sections, the cyanide species of primary
interest in gaseous form, diss...
... LLC
are presented in Chapter 26.
54 Cyanide in Water and Soil
• Various cyanide compounds are produced incidentally during the manufacture of coke,
steel, and aluminum, and during the incineration of ... monoxide), and nitrogen from the injected air or coal. Just as in the coking
operation, some of this cyanide remains in the product gas and the remaining portion e...
... [2; and Chapter 25]. Chemical forms of cyanide in the envir-
nitriles, and organic cyanides (Chapter 2).
and HCN [9; and Chapter 5].
cyanide analytical method [2; and Chapters 5 and 7].
304 Cyanide ... that examined cyanide toxicity via ingestion [6,18,19] indicated that
complex cyanides in food were as toxic as simple cyanides in drinking water or administere...
... developed in most other industrial-
ized countries for managing discharges of contaminants to water and land, for establishing acceptable
concentrations of contaminants in drinking water and surface water, ... countries for cyanide in
water and soil are briefly examined.
18.3.1 WATER
18.3.1.1 Drinking Water
Maximum acceptable concentrations (MAC) for free cyanide in...
... 400 Cyanide in Water and Soil
Hydrogen peroxide provides another alternative in treating free and weakly complexed metal
cyanides in waters and wastewaters. Although H
2
O
2
is a weaker oxidizing ... removal of cyanide, and cyanide- free supernatant is
discharged into the tailings pond.
tinuous tailings slurry treatment system using hydrogen peroxide at the OK Tedi Mine i...
... 209 –226.
FRANK J., STUANES A.O., 200 3
. Short-term effects of liming
and vitality fertilization on forest soil and nutrient leach-
ing in Scots pine ecosystem in Norway. Forest Ecology and
Management, ... planta-
tion height in the particular treatment variants in
200 4 (Table 2).
Table 3 summarizes the annual height incre-
ments since planting and the periodic annual inc...