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Tanwongwan W, Chollacoop N, Faungnawakij K, Assabumrungrat S, Nakhanivej P, Eiad-ua A. Combination of natural silica and alumina sources for synthesis of MCM-22 zeolite. Heliyon 2023; 9:e18772. [PMID: 37576328 PMCID: PMC10415882 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2023] [Revised: 07/26/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023] Open
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Zeolite has become a promising material that can potentially play a pivotal role in resolving environmental crises. Among zeolite families, MCM-22 zeolite shows outstanding intrinsic properties associated with the topology and porous structure, offering ion-exchange advantages for catalytic activity processes. The synthesis of MCM-22 zeolite becomes challenging when concerning the cost and catalytic performance. To overcome this bottleneck, we demonstrate a sustainable route of a hydrothermal process using natural resources as starting materials. Rice husk from agricultural waste was used as a silica source while natural clays (kaolin and bentonite) were applied as alumina sources. The products from natural sources were compared with the use of commercial starting materials, e.g., NaAlO2 (for alumina) and Na2SiO3 and TEOS (for silica), in points of crystal, compositional, and morphological views. We showed that the high purity of MCM-22 zeolite can be obtained from rice husk silica (RHS) and aluminosilicate gel (ASG) extracted from kaolin, while the use of ASG extracted from bentonite tended to be unsuitable to generate the zeolite formation. We also studied the effects of reaction time and the ratio of RHS/ASG on the crystallinity and surface area of MCM-22. The architecture and acidity of an optimal product were explored by Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and Temperature-programmed desorption of ammonia, demonstrating the success of achieving well acidity.
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Affiliation(s)
- Worapak Tanwongwan
- College of Materials Innovation and Technology, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Chalongkrung Rd., Ladkrabang, Bangkok, 10520, Thailand
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- National Energy Technology Center (ENTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Phahonyothin Rd. Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, 12120, Thailand
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- National Nanotechnology Center (NANOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Phahonyothin Rd. Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, 12120, Thailand
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Phayathai Rd., Phatumwan, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand
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- Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- College of Materials Innovation and Technology, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Chalongkrung Rd., Ladkrabang, Bangkok, 10520, Thailand
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Dodoo D, Appiah G, Acquaah G, Junior TD. Fixed-bed column study for the remediation of the bauxite-liquid residue using acid-activated clays and natural clays. Heliyon 2023; 9:e14310. [PMID: 36950633 PMCID: PMC10025903 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2022] [Revised: 02/23/2023] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 03/12/2023] Open
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Large amounts of bauxite-liquid residue are generated during the production of aluminium, which has detrimental effects on human and environmental health. Currently, the primary goal of every alumina industry is to improve the wet disposal of bauxite-liquid residues into the environment using eco-friendly and cost-effective methods. Therefore, this study investigated the possibility of treating bauxite-liquid residue with natural clays (NCs) and acid-activated clays (AACs) using a fixed-bed column adsorption study. The chemical compositions and functional groups of clays and bauxite were studied using X-ray diffractometry (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) techniques. For iron adsorption, breakthrough curves were plotted by varying the adsorbent type in the fixed-bed column. The Bohart-Adams, Thomas, and Yoon-Nelson models were successfully fitted with the breakthrough curves. Two regeneration cycles revealed high regeneration efficiencies for both natural and acid-activated clays. Overall, the study found that AACs were the best candidates for treating bauxite-liquid residue when compared to NCs. For instance, the pH, temperature, electrical conductivity, total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, biochemical oxygen demand, turbidity, and total alkalinity of the bauxite-liquid residue were all significantly decreased below tolerance levels by using AACs. The AACs removed 92% of the iron in the bauxite-liquid residue. Lastly, our research shows that AACs can be used as an adsorbent to treat bauxite-liquid residue, making it less hazardous when it is disposed of into the environment.
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- Daniel Dodoo
- Industrial Chemistry Section, Department of Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences, College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
- Corresponding author.
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- Industrial Chemistry Section, Department of Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences, College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
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- Department of Water and Sanitation, School of Physical Sciences, College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa, Ghana
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Liang Y, Luo Y, Shen C, Bradford SA. Micro- and nanoplastics retention in porous media exhibits different dependence on grain surface roughness and clay coating with particle size. Water Res 2022; 221:118717. [PMID: 35749921 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.118717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Revised: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The presence and/or coating of natural colloids (e.g., clays and metal oxides or hydroxides) on collector surfaces has frequently been demonstrated to enhance the retention of engineered colloids that are negatively charged due to favorable electrostatic interactions. However, this work demonstrates that the presence of natural clay coating can lead to reduced or nonmonotonic retention of micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs). Column experiments were carried out to systematically investigate the transport of MNPs with different sizes in relatively smooth and rough sands that had various clay coating fractions. These coating fractions on the collector were found to significantly influence MNP retention in a complex manner that changed with the colloid size and the roughness properties of the sand. This observation was attributed to the impact of clay coatings on the roughness and morphology properties of collector surfaces that were dominant over surface charge. Scanning electron microscopy and interaction energy calculations on surfaces with pillars or valleys indicate that mechanisms that contributed to MNP retention changed with the colloid size. In particular, retention of nanosized plastics was mainly controlled by interactions on convex/concave locations that changed with the solution chemistry, whereas microsized plastics were also strongly influenced by the applied hydrodynamic torque and straining processes. Additionally, the significant sensitivity of MNP retention under a low-level ionic strength also reflects the importance of roughness and charge heterogeneities. These observations are important for investigating the mechanisms of colloid transport in natural systems that ubiquitously exhibit clay coating on their surfaces.
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- Yan Liang
- School of Resources, Environment and Materials, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China.
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- School of Resources, Environment and Materials, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
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- Department of Soil and Water Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Sustainable Agricultural Water Systems Unit, USDA, ARS, Davis, CA 95616, United States
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Granetto M, Serpella L, Fogliatto S, Re L, Bianco C, Vidotto F, Tosco T. Natural clay and biopolymer-based nanopesticides to control the environmental spread of a soluble herbicide. Sci Total Environ 2022; 806:151199. [PMID: 34699829 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Revised: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 10/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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In this work a novel nano-formulation is proposed to control leaching and volatilization of a broadly used herbicide, dicamba. Dicamba is subject to significant leaching in soils, due to its marked solubility, and to significant volatilization and vapor drift, with consequent risks for operators and neighbouring crops. Natural, biocompatible, low-cost materials were employed to control its dispersion in the environment: among four tested candidate carriers, a nanosized natural clay (namely, K10 montmorillonite) was selected to adsorb the pesticide, and carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), a food-grade biodegradable polymer, was employed as a coating agent. The synthesis approach is based on direct adsorption at ambient temperature and pressure, with a subsequent particle coating to increase suspension stability and control pesticide release. The nano-formulation showed a controlled release when diluted to field-relevant concentrations: in tap water, the uncoated K10 released approximately 45% of the total loaded dicamba, and the percentage reduced to less than 30% with coating. CMC also contributed to significantly reduce dicamba losses due to volatilization from treated soils (e.g., in medium sand, 9.3% of dicamba was lost in 24 h from the commercial product, 15.1% from the uncoated nanoformulation, and only 4.5% from the coated one). Moreover, the coated nanoformulation showed a dramatic decrease in mobility in porous media (when injected in a 11.6 cm sand-packed column, 99.3% of the commercial formulation was eluted, compared to 88.4% of the uncoated nanoformulation and only 24.5% of the coated one). Greenhouse tests indicated that the clay-based nanoformulation does not hinder the dicamba efficacy toward target weeds, even though differences were observed depending on the treated species. Despite the small (lab and greenhouse) scale of the tests, these preliminary results suggest a good efficacy of the proposed nanoformulation in controlling the environmental spreading of dicamba, without hindering efficacy toward target species.
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- Monica Granetto
- Department of Environmental, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI), Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
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- Department of Environmental, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI), Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA), University of Torino, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco, TO, Italy
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- Department of Environmental, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI), Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
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- Department of Environmental, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI), Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA), University of Torino, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco, TO, Italy
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- Department of Environmental, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI), Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy.
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Huo J, Min X, Wang Y. Zirconium-modified natural clays for phosphate removal: Effect of clay minerals. Environ Res 2021; 194:110685. [PMID: 33428913 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.110685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2020] [Revised: 11/13/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Excessive amount of phosphate entering water bodies may cause eutrophication and have detrimental effects on ecosystems. Clay-based materials have been drawing attractive attention in mitigating phosphate release to aquatic environment. In this study, we prepared a series of zirconium (Zr)-modified clays to investigate the effect of clay structure and expansion property on phosphate adsorption. Kaolinite, montmorillonite, and vermiculite were selected as three representative natural clays for Zr modification, and the resulting Zr-modified clays were characterized using various techniques that included powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and zeta potential measurement. Different Zr-modified clays exhibited substantially different phosphate adsorption behaviors, which may be related to the distinct structural and expansion properties of each clay substrate. Particularly, Zr-modified montmorillonite had fastest phosphate adsorption kinetics and highest phosphate adsorption capacity among all Zr-modified clays, which may be attributed to the good expansion property of montmorillonite that favored the uniform intercalation of Zr species, making the adsorption sites easily accessible by phosphate. Furthermore, all Zr-modified clays showed robust performance for phosphate adsorption under various water chemistry conditions. Combined aqueous sorption and solid characterization analyses suggested that formation of inner-sphere surface complexes may be the primary mechanism for phosphate adsorption by Zr-modified clays.
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- Jingwan Huo
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA.
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Pineda E, García-Ruiz MJ, Guaya D, Manrique J, Osorio F. Elimination of total coliforms and Escherichia coli from water by means of filtration with natural clays and silica sand in developing countries. Environ Geochem Health 2021; 43:195-207. [PMID: 32816161 DOI: 10.1007/s10653-020-00623-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2019] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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This research presents the results of a pilot system used for water treatment to be supplied to single-family or small housing nucleus at rural sector. The pilot system is constituted by an up-flow aerated filter with ceramic carrier, followed by a second down-flow filter of silica sand. The pilot plant was installed in a rural sector of the province of Loja, Ecuador, with the main purpose of monitoring the reduction in bacteria in the water for human consumption. Two natural clays from the area were tested. They were transformed into sphere-type ceramics, and then, they were placed in the pilot filters. These both natural clays are inorganic materials with high content of aluminosilicate clay minerals with favourable characteristics to achieve greater efficiency for the reduction in bacteria. The acclimatization time of 60 days allowed to achieve optimum treatment efficiency performance until 90 days of operation. The physicochemical parameters, namely temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen and total dissolved solids, were monitored throughout the experiments. Regarding microbiological parameters, up to 99% of total coliforms removal was reached for the clay called CF-CC and 79% for the other, called CF-CV. In addition, 100% of total coliforms and Escherichia Coli removal was reached for both clay systems. Social and economic viability of the proposed treatment is also analysed in the manuscript.
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- Edgar Pineda
- Department of Geology, Mines and Civil Engineering, UTPL, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Barrio San Cayetano Alto, Marcelino Champagnat Street, s/n, Loja, Ecuador
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Institute of Water, University of Granada, Ramón y Cajal Street, 4, 18071, Granada, Spain.
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- Department of Chemical, UTPL, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Barrio San Cayetano Alto, Marcelino Champagnat Street, s/n, Loja, Ecuador
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- Department of Geology, Mines and Civil Engineering, UTPL, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Barrio San Cayetano Alto, Marcelino Champagnat Street, s/n, Loja, Ecuador
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Institute of Water, University of Granada, Ramón y Cajal Street, 4, 18071, Granada, Spain
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