Metals Coprecipitation with Barite: Nano-XRF Observation of Enhanced Strontium Incorporation

Hunter, Heather A.; Ling, Florence T.; Peters, Catherine A.

doi:10.1089/ees.2019.0447

Title: Metals Coprecipitation with Barite: Nano-XRF Observation of Enhanced Strontium Incorporation

Journal Article · Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Environmental Engineering Science (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1089/ees.2019.0447· OSTI ID:1800763

Hunter, Heather A. ^[1]; Ling, Florence T. ^[1]; Peters, Catherine A. ^[1]

Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Coprecipitation can be an effective treatment method for the removal of environmentally relevant metals from industrial wastewaters such as produced waters from the oil and gas industry. The precipitation of barite, BaSO4, through the addition of sulfate removes barium while coprecipitating strontium and other alkaline earth metals even when these are present at concentrations below their solubility limit. Among other analytical methods, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) nanospectroscopy at the Hard X-ray Nanoprobe (HXN) beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) was used to quantify Sr incorporation into barite. Thermodynamic modeling of (Ba,Sr)SO4 solid solutions was done using solid solution—aqueous solution (SS-AS) theory. The quantitative, high-resolution nano-XRF data show clearly that the Sr content in (Ba,Sr)SO4 solid solutions varies widely among particles and even within a single particle. We observed substantial Sr incorporation that is far larger than thermodynamic models predict, likely indicating the formation of metastable solid solutions. We also observed that increasing barite supersaturation of the aqueous phase led to increased Sr incorporation, as predicted by available kinetic models. These results suggest that coprecipitation offers significant potential for designing treatment systems for aqueous metals’ removal in desired metastable compositions. Solution conditions may be optimized to enhance the incorporation of Sr by increasing sulfate addition such that the barite saturation index remains above *3 or by increasing the aqueous Sr to Ba ratio.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-92ER14244; SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1800763

Journal Information:: Environmental Engineering Science (Online), Vol. 37, Issue 4; ISSN 1557-9018

Publisher:: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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