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Article: Valorization of coal fly ash by mechano-chemical activation: Part I. Enhancing adsorption capacity
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ABSTRACT: The adsorption characteristics of coal fly ash have been enhanced by mechano-chemical activation with a high energy mono-planetary ball mill. The best performing sample for the adsorption of phenol from aqueous solution (i.e., fly ash with the higher carbon content and mechano-chemically activated for 4 h in N2 atmosphere) was compared with powdered activated carbon, yielding quite encouraging results such as favorable adsorption isotherms, improved specific adsorption capacity and very fast adsorption rate. This provides new opportunities for utilizing fly ash in environmental protection applications like the stabilization/solidification treatment of hazardous waste and contaminated soil.Chemical Engineering Journal. -
Article: Valorization of coal fly ash by mechano-chemical activation: Part II. Enhancing pozzolanic reactivity
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ABSTRACT: The pozzolanic and adsorptive characteristics of coal fly ash have been enhanced by mechano-chemical activation in order to evaluate their potential utilization in the stabilization/solidification treatment of hazardous wastes. To that aim a soil artificially contaminated by large amounts of Phenol and Pb underwent that treatment, wherein increasing amounts of powder activated carbon and Portland cement were substituted by mechano-chemically activated fly ash. Under the experimental conditions investigated, very encouraging results, in terms of contaminants leaching and mechanical properties of the stabilized/solidified matrix, were obtained when up to 100% of the powder activated carbon and up to 50% of the Portland cement were substituted by mechano-chemically activated fly ash, thus opening improved possibilities for using this latter in environmental applications.Chemical Engineering Journal.
