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Recycled Steel Slag as a Porous Adsorbent to Filter Phosphorus-Rich Water with 8 Filtration Circles

Journal

MATERIALS
Volume 14, Issue 12, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma14123187

Keywords

porous steel slag disc; phosphorus-rich water; phosphorus removal; filtration times; circular economy

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  1. Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan [MOST 108-2218-E-006-054-MY3, 109-2811-E-006-531-MY2]

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Steel slag is a byproduct of steelmaking process, and its treatment and utilization are becoming increasingly important. Studies have shown that compacted porous steel slag discs have high phosphorous removal efficiency in water filtration, and comply with environmental standards.
Steel slag is a secondary product from steelmaking process through alkaline oxygen furnace or electric arc furnace (EAF). The disposal of steel slag has become a thorny environmental protection issue, and it is mainly used as unbound aggregates, e.g., as a secondary component of asphalt concrete used for road paving. In this study, the characteristics of compacted porous steel slag disc (SSD) and its application in phosphorous (P)-rich water filtration are discussed. The SSD with an optimal porosity of 10 wt% and annealing temperature of 900 degrees C, denoted as SSD-P (10, 900) meets a compressive strength required by ASTM C159-06, which has the capability of much higher than 90% P removal (with the effluent standard < 4 mg P/L) within 3 h, even after eight filtration times. No harmful substances from SSD have been detected in the filtered water, which complies with the effluent standard ISO 14001. The reaction mechanism for P-rich water filtration is mediated by water, followed by two reaction steps-CaO in SSD hydrolyzed from the matrix of SSD to Ca2+ and reacting with PO43-. However, the microenvironment of water is influenced by the pH value of the P-rich water at different filtration times and the kind of P-rich water with different free positive ion that interferes the reactions of the release of Ca2+. This study demonstrates the application of circular economy in reducing steel slag deposits, filtering P-rich water, and collecting Ca-3(PO4)(2) precipitate into fertilizers.

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