Pollution of the environment with heavy metals is one of the greatest contemporary problems. Pyrophyllite is a hydrous aluminum silicate, with a wide variety of applications due to its high melting point and stable chemical properties. This study aims to examine the sorption properties of the mechanochemically activated pyrophyllite for the removal...

By Tatjana M. Trtić-Petrović, Dajana Lazarević, Irena Pušica, Jasmina Kustura, Belma Halilhodžić, Enita Kurtanović, Adnan Teletović, Atif Hodzić, Muhamed Harbinja

Pyrophyllite (Al2Si4O10(OH)2) is a layered phyllosilicate mineral with a basic 2:1 crystal structure,consisting of an aluminum octahedral layer placed between two silicon tetrahedral layers (T-O-T),connected by weak Van der Waals forces, which results in easy structural disruption. Naturalpyrophyllite has an electroneutral surface, which causes a h...

By Jasmina Kustura, Belma Halilhodžić, Enita Kurtanović, Kenan Kozlo, Amra Čizmić, Adnan Teletović, Atif Hodžić, Muhamed Harbinja

Leachate water from sanitary landfills represents one of the most complex global environmentalproblems. This paper examines the possibility of using aluminosilicate material, pyrophyllite, fromthe Parsovići deposit, as an adsorbent. It was researched the influence of two granulations ofpyrophyllite (0-53 μm and 0-100 μm) on the degree of adso...

By Jasmina Kustura, Belma Halilhodžić, Enita Kurtanović, Amra Čizmić, Kenan Kozlo, Adnan Teletović, Atif Hodzić, Muhamed Harbinja