The average concentration of lead in wastewater is about 3–15 mg/L and the pH of wastewater falls in the range of 1.6-2.9 [ 9 ]. If the battery wastewater is not treated well before discharge to environment, lead can contaminate food and water, and be present in nature.
As for the recycled waste batteries, the primary lead industry can take lead concentrate or higher grade lead concentrate after sintering as the main raw material, and lead-containing waste in waste lead-acid batteries such as lead paste from a small number of WLABs as auxiliary ingredients.
Therefore, clarifying the life distribution of waste lead batteries by analyzing accurate user behavior can help promote the gathering of accurate statistics on end-of-life waste lead batteries and provide data support for overall government planning and supervision, as well as improving the geographical distribution of recycling enterprises.
The presence of lead in the wastewater from the lead-acid battery industries can range from 3 to 9 mg/L. Every day, they release 120,000 L of this wastewater. The permissible limit by WHO in drinking water is only 0.01 mg/L.
The purpose of this article is to describe the conventional effluent purification processes used for the recovery of materials that make up lead acid batteries, and their comparison with the advanced processes already being implemented by some environmental managers.
Multiple requests from the same IP address are counted as one view. In this study, we present a low-cost and simple method to treat spent lead–acid battery wastewater using quicklime and slaked lime. The sulfate and lead were successfully removed using the precipitation method.