Journal
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 430, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2021.131423
Keywords
Lithium; Geothermal water; Adsorption; H2TiO3; Porous fiber
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [22073068, 21773170]
- Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City [19JCYBJC20600]
- China National Nuclear Corporation [KHNY-FW-GKXJ-21-0021]
- Yangtze Scholars and Innovative Research Team of the Chinese Uni-versity [IRT_17R81]
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A novel porous fiber using H2TiO3 as the core material was developed for lithium recovery from geothermal water, showing high adsorption performance and stability. The material has potential to be used as an adsorbent for lithium recovery from geothermal water or other liquid lithium resources due to its excellent adsorption properties and feasibility for large-scale preparation.
The recovery of lithium has received widespread attention. Adsorption is one of the most promising methods, but the synthesis of adsorbents with high adsorption performance and stability is still a huge challenge. Herein, a novel porous fiber using H2TiO3 (HTO) as the core material was developed for lithium recovery from geothermal water. HTO was successfully coated and uniformly distributed in the polysulfone (PSF) fiber by a commercialized spinning apparatus combined with the wet spinning technology. When the percentage of HTO in PSF/HTO was 50%, the material showed high adsorption performance, even close to that of powdery HTO. The stability and adsorption capacity of PSF/HTO were further improved using hyperfine H2TiO3 synthesized by a modified solid-state method. Compared with other composite adsorbents reported at present, the maximum adsorption capacity and adsorption rate were obtained, and even the adsorption capacity for 25.78 mg.(L-Li+)-Li-1 in geothermal water reached 22.66 mg.g(-1) after only 60 min with a recovery rate of 88.68%. The distribution coefficient of Li+ was 2 similar to 3 orders of magnitude higher than other coexisting ions, and the average dissolution loss rate of Ti did not exceed 0.6% during cyclic tests. Because of the excellent adsorption properties of PSF/HTO, especially the feasibility of large-scale preparation using commercialized spinning apparatus, the material developed in this work can be used as a potential adsorbent for lithium recovery from geothermal water or other liquid lithium resources.
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