TY - JOUR
T1 - Reclaiming Boron as Calcium Perborate Pellets from Synthetic Wastewater by Integrating Chemical Oxo-Precipitation within a Fluidized-Bed Crystallizer
AU - Vu, Xuantung
AU - Lin, Jui Yen
AU - Shih, Yu Jen
AU - Huang, Yao Hui
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan for financially supporting this research under Contract No. MOST 106-2622-E-006-003-CC2.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2018/4/2
Y1 - 2018/4/2
N2 - Chemical oxo-precipitation (COP) is a modified precipitation process in which hydrogen peroxide is used to transform boric acid to perborate anions, which are precipitated with calcium salt under ambient conditions. To minimize the production of sludge, chemical oxo-precipitation was performed in a fluidized-bed reactor to reclaim boron as unseeded calcium perborate pellets. Several major experimental parameters, including effluent pH, calcium dosage, and surface loading that affected the degree of supersaturation and the efficiency of boron removal, were tested. A crystallization ratio of around 60% was attained under the following conditions: initial boron concentration = 1000 ppm, molar ratios of [Ca]/[B] = 0.6 and [H2O2]/[B] = 2, effluent pH = 10.6, bed height = 80 cm, and hydraulic retention time = 18 min. On the basis of the characterization of XRD, SEM, and Raman spectroscopy, the granules recovered were amorphous calcium perborates Ca(B(OH)3OOH)2 and CaB(OH)3OOB(OH)3.
AB - Chemical oxo-precipitation (COP) is a modified precipitation process in which hydrogen peroxide is used to transform boric acid to perborate anions, which are precipitated with calcium salt under ambient conditions. To minimize the production of sludge, chemical oxo-precipitation was performed in a fluidized-bed reactor to reclaim boron as unseeded calcium perborate pellets. Several major experimental parameters, including effluent pH, calcium dosage, and surface loading that affected the degree of supersaturation and the efficiency of boron removal, were tested. A crystallization ratio of around 60% was attained under the following conditions: initial boron concentration = 1000 ppm, molar ratios of [Ca]/[B] = 0.6 and [H2O2]/[B] = 2, effluent pH = 10.6, bed height = 80 cm, and hydraulic retention time = 18 min. On the basis of the characterization of XRD, SEM, and Raman spectroscopy, the granules recovered were amorphous calcium perborates Ca(B(OH)3OOH)2 and CaB(OH)3OOB(OH)3.
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U2 - 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b03951
DO - 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b03951
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85044758764
SN - 2168-0485
VL - 6
SP - 4784
EP - 4792
JO - ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering
JF - ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering
IS - 4
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