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Lack of 100% efficiency may be because some of the chitin molecules are inside the chunk of
powder and not available for binding to the metals.
Work by Beeram et al., (Beeram et al., 2011) is still very much in progress as of early August
2011. This work concentrates on the use of the whole crawfish and shells (as opposed to
ground crawfish shell by Vootla et al., (Vootla et al., 2011)) for the removal of various
selected metals. Results are very preliminary but suggest surface area (ground versus
whole) do play a part in the uptake rate.
11. Acknowledgements
JS acknowledges, with thanks, the support of the McNeese State University Alumina
Research Award for 2010-2011 and 2010-2011 Shearman Grant fromMcNeese State
University.
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