The interaction of orthophosphoric acid and fly ash

Arslan, Mustafa; Boybay, Mustafa

doi:10.1016/0921-3449(93)90010-d

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“…As a result, all the inorganic oxides leached out completely from the ash, but organically bounded sulfur still remained in the carbon structure, as can be seen from Table 1. This shows that the mixture of acids used was more effective in attacking the organic form of sulfur as compared with pyrite and sulfate-type sulfur in the fly ash (Izquierdo and Querol 2012;Kandah, Shawabkeh, and Ar'ef Al-Zboon 2006;Mustafa Arslan 1993;Shawabkeh et al 2011). Table 1 shows the complete elemental compositions of raw OFA and FA-AC.…”

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Adsorption kinetics and modeling of H₂S by treated waste oil fly ash

Aslam

Hussein

Shawabkeh

et al. 2018

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association

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Waste oil fly ash (OFA) collected from disposal of power generation plants was treated by physicochemical activation technique to improve the surface properties of OFA. This synthesized material was further used for potential hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) adsorption from synthetic natural gas. The raw OFA was basically modified with a mixture of acids (20% nitric acid [HNO 3 ] and 80% phosphoric acid [H 3 PO 4 ]), and it was further treated with 2 M potassium hydroxide (KOH) to enhance the surface affinity as well as surface area of synthesized activated carbon. Correspondingly, it enhanced the adsorption of H 2 S. Crystallinity, surface morphology, and pore volume distribution of prepared activated carbon were investigated using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) analyses. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) study was also performed to identify the functional groups during different synthesis stages of modified activated carbon. The Langmuir, Freundlich, Sips, and dual-site Langmuir (DSL) models were used to study the kinetic and breakthrough behavior of H 2 S adsorption over alkali-modified activated carbon. Modeling results of isotherms indicated that OFA has dual sites with high and low affinity for H 2 S adsorption. The Clark model, Thomas model, and Yoon-Nelson model were used to examine the effects of flow rate and inlet concentration on the adsorption of H 2 S. Maximum uptake capacity of 8.5 mg/g was achieved at 100 ppm inlet concentration and flow rate of 0.2 L/min.Implications: Utilization of worthless oil fly ash from power plant is important not only for cleaning the environment but also for solid waste minimization. This research scope is to eradicate one pollutant by using another pollutant (waste ash) as a raw material. Chemical functionalization of synthesized activated carbon from oil fly ash would lead to attachment of functional groups of basic nature to attract the acidic H 2 S. Such type of treatment can enhance the uptake capacity of sorbent several times.

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