Removal mechanism of phosphorus in water by calcium hydroxide modified copper tailings

With the development of industry and agriculture, eutrophication caused by increasing amounts of phosphorus in the environment has attracted people's attention. On the other hand, copper tailings (CT) is a kind of solid waste with large quantity, large area, and easy to cause groundwater and so...

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Published in:Scientific reports 2024-09, Vol.14 (1), p.20326-15, Article 20326
Main Authors: Li, Yuting, Chen, Yunnen, Xu, Jiali, Liu, Jun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
704/172
704/172/4081
Calcium hydroxide
Calcium phosphates
Copper
Copper tailings
Electrostatic attraction
Electrostatic properties
Eutrophication
Groundwater
Heavy metals
Humanities and Social Sciences
Mine tailings
multidisciplinary
Phosphates
Phosphorus
Phosphorus removal
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Soil pollution
Solid wastes
Sorption
Surface precipitation
Synergistic effect
Tricalcium phosphate
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Summary:With the development of industry and agriculture, eutrophication caused by increasing amounts of phosphorus in the environment has attracted people's attention. On the other hand, copper tailings (CT) is a kind of solid waste with large quantity, large area, and easy to cause groundwater and soil pollution. CT is also a potential resource because of its large specific surface area. CT is intended to be used as an adsorbent for removal phosphate in water, but trace heavy metals and a small amount of phosphate in CT may bring negative effects. Calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH) 2 ) was used to modify CT (CCT), hoping to fix the heavy metals and phosphate in CT at the same time. It was found that the removal capacity of CCT was significantly higher than that of CT. The process of phosphate removal by CCT involves electrostatic sorption and surface precipitation, and there is a synergistic effect between CT and Ca(OH) 2 . The phosphate removal rate of CCT-0.4 increased with the increase of pH value under alkaline conditions. The XRD patterns of phosphate sorption by CCT mean that Ca 3 (PO 4 ) 2 , Ca 5 (PO 4 ) 3 (OH) and AlPO 4 exist in CCT after phosphate removal, indicating that surface precipitation occurs during the removal process. In summary, the removal mechanism of phosphate by CCT is mainly electrostatic attraction and surface precipitation.
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-024-71347-w