In the present work, two alternative forms were approached using different materials. For one of the materials, nanoparticles of metallic iron, metallic nickel and silica as support were synthesized, and the other material aiming at lower cost and greater accessibility will be steel wool. Both have the objective of reducing or remediation of hexavalent chromium through solutions of potassium dichromate in concentrations that aim to simulate contaminations generated by various industrial operations. The function of these materials is to act as a strong reducing agent by donating electrons to reduce the hexavalent chromium to trivalent chromium. The nanoparticles of zero-valent Iron, zero-valent nickel supported on silica was synthesized using sulfates in a reduction technique with potassium borohydride in aqueous solution. The nanoparticles were characterized with the help of the XRD technique, from the diffraction pattern generated and quantifying the present phases, and SEM / EDS, defining elemental chemical composition and surface morphology and ICP to quantify the elemental composition. Finally, the tests of reduction of the hexavalent chromium in trivalent chromium through the UV-VIS spectrophotometer were carried out, and the concentration of hexavalent Chromium present in the solution was quantified through the Colorimetric technique with the highly selective reagent, 1,5-diphenylcarbazide (DFC). Nanoparticles and steel wool showed efficiency in the reduction of hexavalent chromium at concentrations of 8,32 ppm (K2Cr2O7 80 Mmol/L), 6,241 (K2Cr2O7 60 Mmol/L) e 4,161 ppm (K2Cr2O7 40 Mmol/L) with times less than 5 minutes. However, as Fe0-Ni0 nanoparticles supported in SiO2, they reduced the hexavalent content of a quantity of steel mass in relation to steel wool, considering that it consists only of metallic iron. The effectiveness in the most superficial part by the mass unit of the nanostructured particles is credited.