1. Green production of a novel sorbent from kaolin for capturing gaseous PbCl2 in a furnace
- Author
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Zhicheng Zhu, Fan Conghui, Yaji Huang, Yongliang Yan, Mengzhu Yu, Zhipeng Xia, Peter T. Clough, Jianrui Zha, and Haoqiang Cheng
- Subjects
Pollution ,Environmental Engineering ,Sorbent ,Materials science ,Vapor pressure ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,media_common.quotation_subject ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,02 engineering and technology ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,PbCl2 ,Adsorption ,Environmental Chemistry ,Hydrothermal modification ,Kaolin ,Waste Management and Disposal ,Effluent ,Metakaolin ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,media_common ,021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,business.industry ,Pulp and paper industry ,High temperature ,Amorphous solid ,business ,Thermal energy - Abstract
The pollution of semi-volatile heavy metals is one of the key environmental risks for municipal solid waste incineration, and in-situ adsorption of metals within the furnace by mineral sorbents such as kaolin has been demonstrated as a promising emission control method. To lessen the consumption of sorbent, a novel material of amorphous silicate was produced from kaolin through pressurised hydrothermal treatment. Its performance of gaseous PbCl2 capture was tested in a fixed bed furnace and compared with unmodified kaolin and metakaolin. With increasing temperature, the adsorption rates for all sorbents declined due to higher saturated vapour pressure, while the partitions of residual form lead increased which indicated higher stability of heavy metals in the sorbent because of melting effect. The new sorbent with a larger surface area and reformed structure presented 26% more adsorption efficiency than raw kaolin at 900 °C, and increasing the modification pressure improved these properties. Additionally, the production of this high-temperature sorbent was relatively inexpensive, required little thermal energy and no chemicals to produce and no waste effluent was generated, thus being much cleaner than other modification methods.
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- 2020