Publications by authors named "Cunfang Lu"

Acid mine drainage (AMD) contamination poses a severe environmental threat and is a significant risk to human health. There is an urgent need to develop environmentally sustainable and technically viable solutions for water contamination caused by heavy metals. In this study, steel slag (SS) was used as a secondary resource to concurrently remove Fe(II), Cu(II), and Zn(II) from AMD.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Acid mine drainage is an extraordinarily acidic and highly heavy metal ion-contaminated leachate, seriously threatening the environment. In this work, an industrial solid waste of steel slag is the adsorbent to remediate the simulated acid mine drainage containing a large amount of Fe(II) ions. Due to the excellent physicochemical properties and structures, steel slag exhibited remarkable Fe(II) removal performance.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Technologies for remediation of wastewater by industrial solid waste have recently attracted interest. Acid mine drainage is an extraordinarily acidic and highly heavy metal ions contaminated leachate which posed some challenges for the environment. Nonetheless, steel slag shows significant potential application prospects in wastewater treatment, due to its excellent physicochemical properties and structures.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Using microalgae to treat landfill leachate is a promising approach due to the effective nutrients reclamation ability and additional profit of bio-lipid production. To offset the negative effect of landfill leachate on microalgae cells, a membrane photobioreactor (m-PBR) was adopted in the study, in which microalgae biomass concentration was improved from 0.66 in traditional photobioreactor (T-PBR) to 0.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF