Cellulose nanocrystal-supported sodium alginate adsorbent

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11577220-B2
Application number	US-202217845048-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 21, 2022
Priority date	Dec 14, 2020
Publication date	Feb 14, 2023
Grant date	Feb 14, 2023

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a cellulose nanocrystal-supported sodium alginate adsorbent and use thereof in enriching organic phosphorus in wastewater, belonging to the technical field of environmental engineering. Cellulose nanocrystals are prepared from papermaking deinking sludge through chemical conditioning, drying, crushing, chemical oxidation and microwave assisted separation, and then supported on alginate under weakly acidic conditions to provide the cellulose nanocrystals with the ability to enrich organic phosphorus in wastewater. By using this method, the content of organic phosphorus in the wastewater can be significantly reduced, the total phosphorus in the effluent can be reduced, and the wastewater treatment effluent can satisfy the discharge standard. The enriched organic phosphorus can be recycled as a phosphorus resource through incineration. In addition, the papermaking deinking sludge is made into the product with a high added value, so the applicability of the papermaking deinking sludge is broadened. The present disclosure has high feasibility.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for preparing a cellulose nanocrystal-supported sodium alginate adsorbent wherein the method is supporting cellulose nanocrystals on sodium alginate; wherein
a process of preparing the cellulose nanocrystals comprises the following steps:
(1) carrying out solid-liquid separation on a papermaking deinking sludge mixture, collecting the solid sludge, and then diluting the solid sludge with a buffer solution to obtain a sludge-water mixture;
(2) adding a flocculant and slaked lime to the sludge-water mixture obtained in step (1), mixing the mixture uniformly, then carrying out membrane filtration, and collecting sludge trapped on the filter membrane;
(3) treating the sludge obtained in step (2) by thermal drying until a water content of the sludge is not more than 30%, and crushing the sludge;
(4) rinsing the crushed sludge with the buffer solution, then adding 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinooxy free radical and sodium bromide, and mixing the mixture uniformly to form a mixed system; and
(5) adding a terminating oxidizer to the mixed system obtained in step (4) until a pH of the reaction system no longer changes, terminating the reaction, carrying out solid-liquid separation, and collecting the solid to obtain the cellulose nanocrystals.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method for preparing the cellulose nanocrystal-supported sodium alginate adsorbent comprises the following steps:
(a) dispersing sodium alginate in a slightly acidic medium, slowly adding a dewatering filtrate obtained after the membrane filtration in step (2), and mixing the mixture uniformly to obtain a corresponding sodium alginate dispersion; dispersing the cellulose nanocrystals in a slightly acidic medium, and mixing the mixture uniformly to obtain a cellulose nanocrystal dispersion; and
(b) then, slowly and dropwise adding the cellulose nanocrystal dispersion to the sodium alginate dispersion to obtain a sodium alginate-cellulose nanocrystal mixed solution, and concentrating and drying the sodium alginate-cellulose nanocrystal mixed solution to obtain the cellulose nanocrystal-supported sodium alginate adsorbent.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a mass ratio of the sodium alginate to the cellulose nanocrystals is 2:0.2.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the slightly acidic medium is an acetic acid solution with a pH of 3.8-4.6.

5. The method according to claim 2 , wherein a concentration of the sodium alginate dispersion is 10 g/L; and a concentration of the cellulose nanocrystals is 1 g/L.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in the process of preparing the cellulose nanocrystals, the terminating oxidizer in step (5) is NaClO.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in the process of preparing the cellulose nanocrystals, a mass fraction of the flocculant in step (2) relative to the dry weight of the solid sludge is 5%-10%.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in the process of preparing the cellulose nanocrystals, a mass fraction of the slaked lime in step (2) relative to the dry weight of the solid sludge is 10%-25%.

Assignees

• Univ Jiangnan

Inventors

• Wang Shuo
• Liu Qixin
• Shen Fei
• Li Ji
• Wang Yong
• Yi Xuesong

Classifications

• B01J20/28007

  with size in the range 1-100 nanometers, e.g. nanosized particles, nanofibers, nanotubes, nanowires or the like (carbon nanostructures B01J20/205) · CPC title

• B01J20/24 Primary

  Naturally occurring macromolecular compounds, e.g. humic acids or their derivatives · CPC title

• B01J20/3272

  Polymers obtained by reactions otherwise than involving only carbon to carbon unsaturated bonds · CPC title

• C02F9/00

  Multistage treatment of water, waste water or sewage · CPC title

• B01J20/3071

  Washing or leaching · CPC title