New silica based adsorbent material from rice straw and its in-flow application to nitrate reduction in waters: Process sustainability and scale-up possibilities
| Autor: | Lorenzo Sanjuan-Navarro, R. Teruel-Juanes, Carmem T. Primaz, Amparo Ribes-Greus, N. Jornet-Martínez, Carmen Molins-Legua, Pilar Campíns-Falcó, H.R. Robles-Jimarez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Environmental Engineering
Nitrates Lab scale Flow (psychology) Oryza Rice straw Pulp and paper industry Silicon Dioxide Pollution Water Purification chemistry.chemical_compound Kinetics Adsorption Nitrate chemistry Scientific method SCALE-UP Sustainability Environmental Chemistry Environmental science Waste Management and Disposal Water Pollutants Chemical |
| Zdroj: | The Science of the total environment. 805 |
| ISSN: | 1879-1026 |
| Popis: | This paper shows a particular example to move to a sustainable circular economical process from valorization of rice straw ashes by developing a green synthesis for obtaining a useful sub-product. This strategy can palliate negative effects of the agriculture waste practices on the environment and also the obtained silica reduced nitrate content in waters. It is demonstrated that the silica synthesis developed at lab was scalable more than a hundred times with good results. Adsorption studies of nitrate in standards and real well waters at lab scale and scaling-up provided similar results. Adsorption values near to 15 mg/g for nitrate standards and 8.5 mg/g for well water were obtained until achieving the initial nitrate concentration. Experimental breakthrough curves fitted to Thomas model, which gave similar results for adsorption capacities. The adsorption capacity was checked with that obtained by a commercial resin, providing improved results. The method at large scale was compared with industrial traditional methods and green adsorbents. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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