On the Conversion of Bauxite Ores to Highly Activated Alumina Media for Water Remediation
Abstract
Good quality drinking water is necessary to maintain a high quality of life. Millions lack access to clean and safe drinking water, and current trends suggest that billions will face acute water shortages in the coming decades. Development of new materials has led to technological impacts on water purification, from desalination membranes to atmospheric water scavenging. However, the most challenging aspect of technological solutions is cost: if the community being serviced cannot afford the solution, it is not likely to be sustainable. Repurposing Earth-abundant materials to replace highly engineered solutions is an atractive solution. Herein, minimal processing of bauxite rocks produces a high-porosity and reactive activated alumina in situ, without purification directly from the ore. This acid-treated, thermally activated bauxite (ATAB) exhibits a high surface area of 401 ± 6 m2 g-1, a 40-fold increase relative to its parent ore, and a 2× increase relative to the state-of-the-art fluoride adsorbent, activated alumina. The composition, preparation, and mechanism of adsorption are studied by X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and multiple-quantum magic-angle spinning 27Al nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Finally, the maximum adsorption density of ATAB is comparable with that of activated alumina, but ATAB requires fewer processing steps, thus warranting future considerationmore »
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1580891
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1498174; OSTI ID: 1785921
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-805360
Journal ID: ISSN 2366-7486; ark:/13030/qt4tr367p5
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; MRI-1 126 394; AC52-07NA27344; AC02‐05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Sustainable Systems
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2366-7486
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; adsorption; fluoride; MAS-NMR; water; XPS
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Haddad, Andrew Z., Pilgrim, Corey D., Sawvel, April M., Hohman, James Nathan, and Gadgil, Ashok J. On the Conversion of Bauxite Ores to Highly Activated Alumina Media for Water Remediation. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1002/adsu.201900005.
Haddad, Andrew Z., Pilgrim, Corey D., Sawvel, April M., Hohman, James Nathan, & Gadgil, Ashok J. On the Conversion of Bauxite Ores to Highly Activated Alumina Media for Water Remediation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.201900005
Haddad, Andrew Z., Pilgrim, Corey D., Sawvel, April M., Hohman, James Nathan, and Gadgil, Ashok J. Wed .
"On the Conversion of Bauxite Ores to Highly Activated Alumina Media for Water Remediation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.201900005. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1580891.
@article{osti_1580891,
title = {On the Conversion of Bauxite Ores to Highly Activated Alumina Media for Water Remediation},
author = {Haddad, Andrew Z. and Pilgrim, Corey D. and Sawvel, April M. and Hohman, James Nathan and Gadgil, Ashok J.},
abstractNote = {Good quality drinking water is necessary to maintain a high quality of life. Millions lack access to clean and safe drinking water, and current trends suggest that billions will face acute water shortages in the coming decades. Development of new materials has led to technological impacts on water purification, from desalination membranes to atmospheric water scavenging. However, the most challenging aspect of technological solutions is cost: if the community being serviced cannot afford the solution, it is not likely to be sustainable. Repurposing Earth-abundant materials to replace highly engineered solutions is an atractive solution. Herein, minimal processing of bauxite rocks produces a high-porosity and reactive activated alumina in situ, without purification directly from the ore. This acid-treated, thermally activated bauxite (ATAB) exhibits a high surface area of 401 ± 6 m2 g-1, a 40-fold increase relative to its parent ore, and a 2× increase relative to the state-of-the-art fluoride adsorbent, activated alumina. The composition, preparation, and mechanism of adsorption are studied by X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and multiple-quantum magic-angle spinning 27Al nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Finally, the maximum adsorption density of ATAB is comparable with that of activated alumina, but ATAB requires fewer processing steps, thus warranting future consideration as a primary adsorbent of choice for fluoride removal from water.},
doi = {10.1002/adsu.201900005},
journal = {Advanced Sustainable Systems},
number = 7,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Mar 06 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Wed Mar 06 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
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