Use of Natural Zeolite to Improve Quality and Environmental Safety of Natural Surface Waters and Waste Surface Waters

Abstract

Natural zeolites are materials which, due to the peculiarities of their crystal structure and high adsorption and ion exchange properties, have wide prospects for use in technologies of adsorption purification of aquatic environments. The paper presents the results of laboratory research in dynamic and static conditions of sorption properties of natural zeolite, which is currently used for purification of natural water from suspended solids in industrial water treatment plants. The sorption capacity of different fractions of this zeolite to ammonium nitrogen, fluorides and petroleum products has been established.