Engineering Calcium-Bearing Mineral/Hydrogel Composites for Effective Phosphate Recovery

Tan, Albern X.; Michalski, Elizabeth; Ilavsky, Jan; Jun, Young-Shin

doi:10.1021/acsestengg.1c00204

Engineering Calcium-Bearing Mineral/Hydrogel Composites for Effective Phosphate Recovery

Journal Article · Tue Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · ACS ES&T Engineering

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.1c00204· OSTI ID:1840526

^[1]; Michalski, Elizabeth ^[1]; Ilavsky, Jan ^[2]; ^[1]

Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)

Effectively recovering phosphate from wastewater streams and reutilizing it as a nutrient will critically support sustainability. Here, to capture aqueous phosphate, we developed novel mineral-hydrogel composites composed of calcium alginate, calcium phosphate (CaP), and calcium silicate (CSH) (CaP + CSH/Ca-Alg). The CaP + CSH/Ca-Alg composites were synthesized by dripping a sodium alginate (Na-Alg) solution with ionic precursors into a calcium chloride bath. To change the mineral seed’s properties, we varied the calcium bath concentrations and the ionic precursor (sodium dibasic phosphate (NaH₂PO₄) and/or sodium silicate (Na₂SiO₃)) amounts and their ratios. The added CSH in the mineral-hydrogel composites resulted in the release of calcium and silicate ions in phosphate-rich solutions, increasing the saturation ratio with respect to calcium phosphate within the mineral-hydrogel composites. The CSH addition to the mineral-hydrogel composites doubled the phosphate removal rate while requiring lesser initial amounts of Ca and P materials for synthesis. Furthermore, by incorporating both CSH and CaP mineral seeds in composites, we achieved a final concentration of 0.25 mg-P/L from an initial 6.20 mg-P/L. Moreover, the mineral-hydrogel composites can remove phosphate even under CaP undersaturated conditions. This suggests their potential to be a widely applicable and environmentally-sustainable treatment and recovery method for nutrient-rich wastewater.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1840526

Journal Information:: ACS ES&T Engineering, Journal Name: ACS ES&T Engineering Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 1; ISSN 2690-0645

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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