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The plot of bulk density (a), apparent density (b) and total porosity (c) that were studied by varying the sintering temperatures and mass ratios (WM:BCS:OS = 7:7:6, 5:4:1, 2:2:1 and 4:3:3)
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Highly bloating ceramsite has been successfully prepared from forthcoming industrial wastes, the white mud (WM), which is the residue from H2SO4-treated coal fly ash obtained from our previous industrial art. In this art the oil shale (OS) and black cotton soil (BCS) were used as foaming and fluxing agents, respectively. The products were demonstra...
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The use of ceramsite to construct filtration systems (e.g., biofilters) is a common method for water treatment. To promote such applications, the development of low-cost, high-performance, and environmentally friendly ceramsites has received increasing attention from scientists, and a critical step in the development is the preparation of raw materials. As an inevitable and non-hazardous by-product during potable water production, drinking water treatment residue (DWTR) is typically recycled to make water treatment ceramsite to promote recycling in filtration systems. This study aims to bridge the knowledge gap regarding DWTR in making ceramsites for water treatment. The results suggest that the fabrication methods for DWTR-based ceramsite can be generally classified into sintering and non-sintering procedures. For the sintering method, owing to the heterogeneous properties (especially aluminum, iron, and calcium), DWTR has been applied as various sub-ingredients for raw materials preparations. In contrast, for the non-sintering method, DWTR is commonly applied as the main ingredient, and natural curing, physical crosslinking, and thermal treatment methods have been typically adopted to make ceramsite. However, DWTR-based ceramsites tend to have a high adsorption capability and favorable microbial effects to control different kinds of pollution (e.g., phosphorus, nitrogen, and organic matter). Future work is typically recommended to thoroughly evaluate the performance of DWTR-based ceramsite-constructed filtration systems to control water pollution concerning the making procedures, the potential to control pollution, the stability, and the safety of raw DWTR-based ceramsite, providing systematic information to design more proper planning for beneficial recycling.
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The study aims to remove methylene blue dye from water with a fixed-bed column packed with Cu2O nanocomposite ceramsites. The column showed the advantages of fixed-bed column adsorption and photocatalytic oxidation. The Cu2O nanocomposite ceramsites with strong photocatalytic oxidation activity and well-developed porous structure were successfully prepared with the chemical vapor deposition process, which also met with the China’s industrial standard of CJ/T 299-2008 and China’s national standard of GB 5085.3-2007. In the column experiments under the experimental conditions (initial pH was 3, reaction temperature was 25 oC and flow rate was 33 mL/min), the breakthrough curve was much more smooth. The breakthrough time and saturation time under ultraviolet radiation were 36.0% and 26.83% longer than those under the conditions without ultraviolet radiation, because the micro-pore structure of ceramsite was closely related to optical excitation properties of nano-Cu2O. The Yoon-Nelson and Adams-Bohart models were applied to describe the obtained breakthrough curves using non-linear regression, in which the Yoon-Nelson model gave the better prediction results for breakthrough curves, with R²>0.98. Besides, amines were the dominant intermediates at saturation point and final products were inorganic anions. This study confirmed that the fixed-bed column packed with Cu2O nanocomposite ceramsites could efficiently treat methylene blue dye wastewater, due to the structure-function relationship between ceramsite and nano-Cu2O.
