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Influence of porous aluminosilicate grain size materials in experimental and modelling Cs+ adsorption kinetics and wastewater column process

Journal Article · · Journal of Water Process Engineering
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  1. Center for Hierarchical Waste Form Materials, Columbia, SC (United States); Univ Montpellier, Marcoule (France)
  2. Univ Montpellier, Marcoule (France)
  3. Center for Hierarchical Waste Form Materials, Columbia, SC (United States); Univ. Grenoble Alpes (France)
  4. Center for Hierarchical Waste Form Materials, Columbia, SC (United States); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  5. Center for Hierarchical Waste Form Materials, Columbia, SC (United States); University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
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This paper focuses on the influence of the grain size of a geopolymer based adsorbent on its Cs+ adsorption performances both in batch and fixed-bed process. The geopolymer phase was used as a binder to support NaY zeolite particle in a 20 wt% charged porous composite with 160 m2.g–1 of porous surface area. These samples were shaped with three grain sizes (50 /100/500 µm) to remove 80–90 mg/g of Cs+ in batch and column operations. After their microstructural and porous characterizations, their efficiency and adsorption characteristics were investigated through adsorption isotherms and kinetic in the two processes. While the grain size has no influence on the maximal extraction capacity of the adsorbent, it strongly affects the sorption kinetic. By coupling experimental data and a modelling approach, the complex sorption mechanism was highlighted, suggesting a new insight of the contaminant sorption kinetic. Then, comparison of batch and column adsorption experiments illustrates the detailed explanation of various process parameters for column study. The results show challenges for fixed-bed column utilization by the choice of the appropriate grain size as a compromise between the material sorption kinetic and hydrodynamic considerations. Furthermore, this is of high importance to more accurately optimize the design of column adsorption to assess the transport of Cs+ in multi-porous tailored grain size materials.
Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830; SC0016574
OSTI ID:
2475138
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA--203747
Journal Information:
Journal of Water Process Engineering, Journal Name: Journal of Water Process Engineering Journal Issue: _ Vol. 66; ISSN 2214-7144
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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