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Zheng, Y., Wang, J., Sun, P., Xue, H., Zhang, L., Chen, J., . . . Zhu, W. (2023). Using waste to treat waste: Red mud induced hierarchical porous γ-AlOOH and γ-Al2O3 microspheres as superior Pd support for catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol. Particuology, 73, 59-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.partic.2022.04.001
Using waste to treat waste: Red mud induced hierarchical porous γ-AlOOH and γ-Al2O3 microspheres as superior Pd support for catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol(Open Access)
Yuyu Zheng 1, Jingyi Wang 1, Panpan Sun, Huimin Xue, Liyun Zhang, Jinxiu Chen, Heng Zhang, Wancheng Zhu *
Department of Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Shandong, 273165, China
10.1016/j.partic.2022.04.001
Volume 73, February 2023, Pages 59-67
Received 27 February 2022, Revised 31 March 2022, Accepted 5 April 2022, Available online 4 May 2022, Version of Record 18 May 2022.
E-mail: lyzhang2019@qfnu.edu.cn; zhuwancheng@tsinghua.org.cn

Highlights

• Solid waste red mud (RM) is utilized as raw material for the disposal of the wastewater containing 4-NP.

• Uniform RM γ-AlOOH/γ-Al2O3 hierarchical porous microspheres (HPMSs) are derived from RM.

• Pd/RM γ-AlOOH and Pd/RM γ-Al2O3 HPMSs exhibit superior rate constant knor as 8204.5 and 4831.4 s−1 g−1, respectively.

• Pd/RM γ-AlOOH and Pd/RM γ-Al2O3 HPMSs both display excellent stability in 10 cycles' reduction of 4-NP.


Abstract

Toward the imperative treatment of the industrial wastewater containing 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) and industrial solid waste red mud (RM), an innovative approach of "Using waste to treat waste" is developed. Valuable element Al is leached from the RM first, the resultant NaAlO2 solution is hydrothermally converted to γ-AlOOH hierarchical porous microspheres (RM γ-AlOOH HPMSs, average diameter: 2.0 μm, SBET: 77.81 m2 g−1, pore volume: 0.38 cm3 g−1) in the presence of urea. The subsequent mild thermal conversion results in γ-Al2O3 hierarchical porous microspheres (RM γ-Al2O3 HPMSs). Both of the RM γ-AlOOH and RM γ-Al2O3 HPMSs are employed as the Pd catalyst support for the catalytic reduction of 4-NP. Particularly, the as-obtained composite Pd/RM γ-AlOOH and Pd/RM γ-Al2O3 exhibit excellent catalytic activities with superior knor as 8204.5 and 4831.4 s−1 g−1, respectively, significantly higher than that of most Pd based catalysts. Moreover, the excellent catalytic stability and durability of the Pd/RM γ-AlOOH and Pd/RM γ-Al2O3 within 10 successive cycles of reduction enable the present industrial solid waste RM induced γ-AlOOH and γ-Al2O3 HPMSs as great promising Pd catalyst support for the reduction of the industrial wastewater containing 4-NP.

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Keywords
Red mud; Waste treatment; Hierarchical porous; AlOOH; Al2O3; 4-Nitrophenol