What Are the Treatments for Antimony in Water?
Antimony is a black mineral. It is widely distributed in nature and is frequently associated with the ores of copper, silver, lead and iron. Antimony contamination in drinking water supplies often results from the leaching of antimony by the natural resources and industrial waste. Antimony is a common superfluous product produced during coal and petroleum manufacturing processes. Another major source of antimony is automobile gas emissions and indiscriminate burning of fossil fuels. In the soil, antimony is combined with the particles that contain iron, manganese and aluminum. From soil, antimony passes into water resources like groundwater, lakes and rivers. Technological Processes In water treatment, heavy metals such as antimony are disposed of through a variety of scientific processes, such as electrochemical process, ion exchange (a process in which ions are exchanged between a solution and an insoluble solid), adsorption, precipitation, membrane and biological degradation. Little
