4.7 Article

Immobilizing chromium in tannery sludge via adding collagen protein waste: an in-depth study on mechanism

Journal

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 29, Issue 20, Pages 30337-30347

Publisher

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-17919-z

Keywords

Tannery sludge; Chromium; Organic matter; Collagen; Immobilization; Density functional theory

Funding

  1. Liaoning Province (Jinzhou) Fur Green Manufacturing Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance [201854]
  2. Research on resource recycling technology of tanned chromium-containing waste dander [2018020190-301]

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Due to its high organic matter content, tannery sludge is suitable for composting but poses a risk to the environment due to the presence of harmful chromium. This study proposes a method to minimize the release of chromium and investigates the mechanism of chromium immobilization using collagen protein waste. The results show that the lowest leaching concentration of chromium is below the limit set by Chinese standards, and the dominant functional groups cross-linking with chromium are hydroxyl, carboxyl, and epoxy.
Owing to containing high fraction of organic matter, the tannery sludge seemed to be fit for composting. Actually, it was intensively harmful to the environment, due to containing chromium (Cr). So it might undergo a long time of storage until finding a proper way to dispose it. In the storage period, it would expose the surrounding environment a risk via releasing Cr. In this study, an approach was proposed to minimize the amount of released Cr, and reveal the mechanism on immobilizing Cr. Collagen protein waste (CPW) was adopted to immobilize Cr, and it was evaluated via leaching experiment. The lowest leaching concentration of Cr was 12 mg/L, meeting the limits of related standard in China (GB 5085.3-2007, Tcr < 15 mg/L). Moreover, the compositions and functional groups of the optimum sample (12 mg/L) were also characterized, confirming that the dominant functional groups cross-linking with Cr were hydroxyl (-OH), carboxyl (-COOH), and epoxy (-COC). Importantly, density functional theory (DFT) calculation was also employed, suggesting that Cr was restrained by accepting electrons from O atoms donating by functional groups.

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