title: Nutrients adsorption from seawater by new porous carrier made from zeolitized fly ash and slag.
abstract: This study investigated the adsorption and precipitation of phosphate by blast furnace slag (BFS) separately. In order to evaluate the adsorption capacity of BFS, BFS was treated before its use by acid. The authors aim to develop a new porous carrier to adsorb simultaneously ammonium and phosphate from seawater under eutrophic conditions. The current paper deals with a promising new approach to improve the utilization of some industrial solid wastes such as BFS and zeolite synthesized from fly ash [ZFA(Fe)] by their solidification to cylindrical porous carriers using a hydrothermal hot-pressing (HHP) method. Attempts to produce porous carriers using an arranged HHP method with different porosities (24%, 40% and 52% (v/v)) were carried out. Physical properties of carriers such as porosity, compressive strength and height have been investigated. Laboratory studies showed strong evidence that the porous carrier was very selective towards phosphate and ammonium. The results demonstrated the role of porosity in enhancing phosphate and ammonium adsorption by the increase of the surface area per weight. The estimates of the parameters and the correlation coefficients according to the Freundlich equations revealed that adsorption was related to the porosity of carriers and phosphate and ammonium were adsorbed well on the carriers having large porosity. The results suggested that developing carrier with high porosity was a promising way to enhance nutrients adsorption.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecosystem Engineering, The University of Tokushima, Japan.
authors.forename: Olfa
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Khelifi
authors.forename: Yasunori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kozuki
authors.forename: Hitoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Murakami
authors.forename: Kengo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kurata
authors.forename: Mamuro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishioka
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D011232:Chemical Precipitation; D005068:Eutrophication; D017745:Incineration; D010710:Phosphates / Q000737:chemistry*; D016062:Porosity; D000644:Quaternary Ammonium Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D012037:Refuse Disposal; D014876:Water Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control; D017641:Zeolites / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D010710:Phosphates; D000644:Quaternary Ammonium Compounds; D017641:Zeolites