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Cyanid treatment
Dear sir,
I work for a wwtp in a petrochemical plant. Kindly, inform me about following problem. Is it possible to treat oily water sewer water containing 2ppm cyanid in an activated sludge system?
Best Regards,
N. Jedari
- Tabriz, Iran
2001
This site is about metal finishing rather than petrochemicals, and our treatment systems are virtually all chemical rather than biological, so you probably won't find real experience in that issue here. But my Guess is it won't work.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
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2001
I work for a ccpp in a power plant. Kindly, inform me about following problem. Is it possible to treat waste water containing
5ppm cyanid in waste water produced from boiler acid cleaning .
Abdulmajeed Eglade
- Sorman, Libya
February 23, 2008
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