O objetivo desse trabalho é a adsorção de cianocomplexos de ouro, cobre e ferro de efluentes que são gerados no processo de beneficiamento do minério de ouro. Para a adsorção foram testadas duas alternativas: resina de troca aniônica com base fraca e o carvão ativado quimicamente modificado. A resina utilizada foi a LEWATIT MP 62 da Bayer S.A. O processo de modificação química do carvão ocorreu em duas etapas: nitração do carvão ativado comercial, seguida de redução do grupo nitro (NO2) para grupo amino (NH2). Os testes de adsorção revelaram que o carvão ativado modificado apresentou pior eficiência na recuperação de complexos de Au, em relação ao carvão ativado sem tratamento, e que ambos não adsorveram complexos de Cu e Fe. A resina foi a que apresentou melhor recuperação dos complexos de ouro (100%), cobre (99%) e ferro (100%).

Herein, the adsorption of gold, copper, and iron cyano complexes fromeffluents of t gold ore processing is presented. . For recovery, two alternatives were tested: weak-base ion - exchange resin and chemically modified activated carbon. The resin used was LEWATIT MP 62 from Bayer S.A. Chemical modification was carried out in two steps: nitration of commercial activated carbon followed by the reduction of the nitro group (NO2) to amino group (NH2). Adsorption testes revealed that activated carbon presented poorer efficiency in the recovery of Au complexes in relation to untreated activated carbon, and that they did not adsorb either Cu or Fe complexes. Resin recovered Cu (99%) and Fe(100%) and Au (100%) complexes was the best.

Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is a filler often utilized by the Brazilian mattress factories in the production of polyurethane foams. The filler allows the substitution of part of the polymeric agents, conferring dimensional stability and hardness to the foams. However, in agreement with experimental data, it is observed that the excess of commercial CaCO3 utilized in industry causes the increase of hysteresis, possibly causing permanent deformations and damaging the quality of the final product. In the present work, the physico-chemical analyses of the flexible polyurethane foams with different contents of CaCO3 were performed. The foams are submitted to the morphological, mechanical and positron analyses to verify the alterations provoked by the progressive introduction of this filler.