MCMateriales de Construcción0465-2746Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientificasMC202016_e22010.3989/mc.2020.13819ArticlesPreliminary study on the upcycle of non-structural construction and demolition waste for waste cleaningEstudio preliminar sobre el empleo de residuos de construcción y demolición no estructurales para la eliminación de residuosChenP.ab*ChenX.aWangY.cWangPaSchool of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, P.R. ChinaHefei Construction Engineering Group Co., P. R. ChinaSchool of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, P. R. Chinapeiyuan29@126.com
ORCID ID: P. Chen (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5538-617X); X. Chen (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6451-0283); Y. Wang (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8935-5956); P. Wang (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7229-6061)
This study proposes a method to convert non-structural calcium-rich construction and demolition waste fines into adsorbents of heavy metal ions by mixing waste fines with diammonium hydrogen phosphate solution to produce hydroxyapatite, which has high surface areas and excellent ion-exchange capacity with heavy metal ions. As a result, environmental polluting waste is converted into environmentally cleaning material. Waste putty powders was chosen as the representative waste to investigate the detailed formation process of hydroxyapatite and the key reaction parameters of the reaction. Results showed that hydroxyapatite can be produced on waste putty particles. Higher ageing temperatures or longer ageing duration are beneficial to the yield and crystallinity of the produced hydroxyapatite. Adsorption testing confirmed that Ni2+ can replace Ca2+ in the hydroxyapatite lattice, leading to the formation of a new crystal, arupite (Ni3(PO4)2•8H2O), and contributing to a modest adsorption capacity for Ni2+ (15 mg/g) for the hydroxyapatite-containing waste putty.
RESUMEN
Estudio preliminar sobre el empleo de residuos de construcción y demolición no estructurales para la eliminación de residuos. Este estudio propone un método para convertir residuos de construcción y demolición no estructurales, ricos en calcio y pulverulentos, en adsorbentes de iones de metales pesados mezclándolos con una solución de hidrógenofosfato de diamonio para generar hidroxiapatita, la cual presenta una elevada área superficial y una excelente capacidad de intercambio iónico de iones de metales pesados. De este modo, un residuo contaminante se convierte en un material que limpia el medio ambiente. Se seleccionó residuo en forma de masilla en polvo como residuo representativo para investigar en detalle los procesos de formación de hidroxiapatita y los parámetros clave implicados en la reacción. Los resultados mostraron que la hidroxiapatita se puede producir en las partículas de los residuos empleados. La producción y la cristalinidad de la hidroxiapatita se ve favorecida por temperaturas de envejecimiento elevadas y prolongadas. Los ensayos de adsorción confirmaron que el Ni2+ puede sustituir al Ca2+ en la estructura de la hidroxiapatita, formándose un nuevo mineral, arupita (Ni3(PO4)2•8H2O), y contribuyendo a una adsorción modesta de Ni2+ (15 mg/g) por parte de la masilla de residuos con hidroxiapatita.
KEYWORDSConcreteHeavy metalsWaste treatmentAdsorptionCharacterizationPALABRAS CLAVEHormigónMetales pesadosTratamiento de residuosAdsorciónCaracterización1. INTRODUCTION
An estimated 2 billion tons of construction and demolition (C&D) wastes are produced each year globally. These wastes create enormous negative effects on the environment in terms of land occupation and environmental pollutions of land, water, and air (1–4). Recycling the C&D wastes for new applications is the most promising way to combat the negative impacts of C&D wastes as well as resources recycling. Generally, C&D wastes are classified into structural and non-structural wastes depending on their qualities and mechanical properties. For instance, waste and demolished concrete is such kind of structural waste with high mechanical properties. It can be crushed into particles and can be used as recycled concrete aggregates (RCAs) in new concrete, which is well known as recycling concrete (RC) (1, 5–10). Every year, abundant studies on manufacturing methods and properties of RCAs as well as the fresh and hardened properties of RCA-incorporated RC are carried out worldwide, contributing towards the progress of recycling such waste. Nevertheless, decorative construction waste, a characteristic kind of non-structural waste, receives very little attention in the last few decades towards to its reuse.
Construction putty is one of the widely applied decorative materials on the surface of building components to fill cracks, scratches, and other irregularities such that a smooth surface is formed for subsequent paint and varnish. Normally, a thickness of 20 mm and 50 mm of construction putty (or about 1 kg/m2) is required for coating building components. Thus, one can expect that a huge amount of waste construction putty (WP) is correspondingly produced globally along with the two billion tons of C&D wastes each year. By now, in addition to landfill or as partial filler for subgrade, effective reuse methods of WP are rarely reported, possibly due to issues such as cost efficiency and reuse technology. In particular, reuse of WP with inferior mechanical properties cannot be focused without value added technology. This paper intends to fill this gap to develop a value added reuse technology for WP based on a wet chemical method to convert WP into an adsorbent of heavy metals. Hydroxyapatite (HAP), with the ideal formula Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2, is chosen as the target adsorbent in this method. HAP belongs to the apatite family and commonly exists in natural bones and teeth (11–14). It has salient features in terms of high stability, good biocompatibility, high bioactivity, and high sorption capacity (12, 15–17). Particularly, HAP possesses the salient capacity of adsorbing heavy metal ions through a so-called ion-exchange process (18, 19). The ion-exchange mechanism is shown in Equation [1]:
Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2+xM2+→(Ca10−xMx)(PO4)6(OH)2+xCa2+,
where M = Pb, Zn, Ni, or Cd, and 0 ≤ x ≤ 10.
Equation [1] suggests that heavy metal ions can replace the calcium in the lattice of HAP. A maximum of 10 heavy metal units can be strongly stabilized by one HAP unit. The adsorption capability of HAP on a variety of toxic metal ions has been successfully confirmed, such as Co2+, Cu2+, Cd2+, Zn2+, Ni2+, and Pb2+ (15, 16, 20, 21). Thus, HAP is regarded as an excellent adsorption and stabilization material for radioactive waste and harmful metals (12, 22). In the past thirty years, there has been a great interest worldwide in the synthetic methods of HAP powders. As summarized by Fihri (12) those methods are classified into four categories: dry methods (23), wet methods (13, 15), microwave-assisted methods (24, 25) and miscellaneous methods. Among them, the wet methods, including double decomposition or coprecipitation, emulsion, hydrolysis method, sol-gel method, and hydrothermal approach, are widely adopted since the procedures for these methods are simple and allow perfect control on the structure, texture, and morphology of HAP powders (12).
In the case that HAP contains calcium and PO42- as its substantial constituents, and that calcium-rich minerals, i.e., calcium carbonate, lime, and calcium-magnesium fine particles are commonly used in construction putty as the filler (26), it was proposed to use WP as the calcium source to produce HAP by soaking WP into a phosphate solution such as diammonium hydrogen phosphate ((NH4)2HPO4, DAP). Through this method, the non-structural waste (WP) can be converted into high-value environmental cleaning materials as heavy metal adsorbents. This might evoke great attention to its recycling.
To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach, a preliminary study was carried out in this paper to investigate the detailed formation process of HAP and the key reaction parameters of the reaction between WP and DAP solution. The produced WP-HAP particles were comprehensively characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), and Brunauer, Emmett, and Teller (BET) methods. Moreover, the ion-exchange of the produced WP-HAP powder with Ni2+ (that is commonly used in refining, steel, welding, and electroplating industries and is one of the most harmful toxic metal to human beings even in small quantities that can cause lung fibrosis, kidney disease, and allergic dermatitis (15, 27)) was confirmed by an adsorption experiment. This approach is particularly suitable for calcium-rich non-structural C&D wastes that are difficult to recycle as new construction and building materials due to their inferior mechanical properties.
2. MATERIALS AND METHODS2.1. Materials
WP was collected from interior walls of a discarded building in the old campus of Anhui University of Science and Technology, China. Its chemical components and mineral composition were examined by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and XRD, respectively, as shown in Table 1 and Figure 1. Table 1 shows that C, Ca and Mg are the major elements along with small amount of S, Si, Al, Fe, Na and K in the putty sample. Figure 1 suggests that the WP is mainly consisted of dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2, JCPDS, No. 99-0046) and calcite (CaCO3, JCPDS, No. 86-0174), accompanied by small amount of quartz (SiO2 JCPDS, No. 85-0798) and glauberite (CaNa2(SO4)2, JCPDS, No. 74-1065), as marked in the figure.
Chemical composition of the waste construction putty by XRF
Oxide
CO2
CaO
MgO
SO3
SiO2
Al2O3
Fe2O3
Na2O
K2O
Content (%)
43.6
28.0
13.7
7.9
5.6
0.6
0.2
0.2
0.1
XRD pattern of the waste construction putty.
WP was first grounded into fine powder passing through a 200-mesh sieve (less than 75 μm) and then dried in an oven at 150 °C for 24 hours until mass equilibrium was reached. (NH4)2HPO4 (DAP) and NiSO4·6H2O of analysis purity without further purification were purchased from the Sinopharm Chemical Reagent Co., Ltd. Tap water was used throughout this study with an aim to maintain the cost of the proposed process to the minimum.
2.2. Preparation of WP-HAP Powder
WP-HAP powder was prepared based on the chemical reaction between DAP solution and the WP. This reaction is determined by two major factors: aging temperature and duration. Three aging temperatures (23°C, 50°C and 80°C ) and four aging durations (3, 9, 15 and 21 days) were used in the study to evaluate their effects on the morphological and mineralogical properties of the WP-HAP.
In a typical procedure, 200 ml 2 M DAP solution was initially prepared in a beaker. 133.6 g WP powder was then added into it to achieve a Ca/P ratio of 1.67, at which the produced HAP crystal may have a similar structure as those existing in bones and teeth (12). The mixture was vigorously stirred for 5 min and then aged in the sealed beaker to allow for the chemical reaction between the putty powder and the DAP to produce HAP. At the end of each aging duration, the mixture was filtered, washed and finally dried at 105°C for 24 hours for further analysis and adsorption testing. The produced WP-HAP samples were named as XdY, where Xd is the aging duration in days, and Y is the aging temperature in Celsius. For example, 3d50 refers to a WP-HAP sample produced by aging at 50°C for 3 days.
2.3. Adsorption Experiment
A simple adsorption experiment was conducted under ambient temperature and pressure to confirm that the produced WP-HAP powder can adsorb Ni2+ through the ion-change process. The waste solution with heavy metal ions was simulated by mixing NiSO4·6H2O with deionized water with the concentration of Ni2+ as 100 mg/L. 100 ml waste solution was mixed with 0.2 g 15d50 WP-HAP in a beaker, which was then sealed and shaken at the speed of 100 r/min by a rotating shaker for 72 hours. After that, the waste solution was filtered and the solid substance on the filter paper was dried at 105°C for 24 hours for SEM, EDS, XRD analysis to study the adsorption process of the produced WP-HAP powders. The amount of Ni2+ adsorbed by the WP-HAP was determined by a PerkinElmer optima 7000 Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES).
2.4. Characterization Analysis
Morphological examination and elemental analysis were performed using a S-3400N scanning electron microscopy equipped with X-ray energy-dispersive spectroscopy. The operating acceleration voltage was 15 kV. Samples prepared for SEM observation were coated by a layer of gold particles to improve their electrical conductivity before SEM operation. Mineralogical composition was investigated by a SmartLab 9KW multi-function X-ray powder diffractometer using Cu_Kα radiation at 45 kV and 200 mA at a scan speed of 8°/min between 2θ of 10° to 60°. Chemical composition of WP was determined by a XRF-1800 X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. Brunauer, Emmett, and Teller surface area of WP and WP-HAP samples was tested by an ASAP2020 specific surface area and aperture analyzer.
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS3.1. Mineralogical Composition of WP-HAP Samples by XRD3.1.1. Effect of Aging Temperature
Figure 2 shows the XRD patterns of the WP-HAP samples obtained after an aging duration of 3 d. Mineralogical composition of each sample was identified by comparing with standard JCPDS files. Five crystals, namely, dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2, No. 99-0046), calcite (CaCO3, No. 86-0174), monetite (CaHPO4, No. 70-1425), farringtonite (Mg3(PO4)2, No. 75-1491), and hydroxylapatite (Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2, No. 74-0566) were found as marked in this figure. The last three minerals were not present in the WP and, therefore, were produced by the reaction between WP and the DAP solution.
XRD patterns of WP-HAP samples aged for 3 d.
The contents of these three new minerals are clearly dependent on the aging temperature. For example, the characteristic peaks of HAP were only found in 3d50 and 3d80. Intermediate phosphate phases such as monetite and farringtonite were formed at the ambient temperature (23°C). No HAP was identified in this sample, suggesting that the ambient condition was insufficient to produce HAP only with 3 d of aging by the proposed method. At a higher aging temperature (50°C), HAP appeared in the XRD pattern, and the content of intermediate phosphate phases was greatly reduced. The presence of intermediate phosphate phases suggests one of the drawbacks of wet methods of HAP synthesis that the production of crystallographically pure HAP is challenging when other phases of phosphates are present (12, 15, 16). As shown in Figure 2, the HAP produced at this temperature has a low crystallinity, as indicated by a hump at 2θ = 31.9°–34.2° with a broad peak width. When the aging temperature was as high as 80°C, the peak heights of the produced HAP (especially the one at 2θ = 31.9°) are much higher than those of the 3d50. This result suggests that higher aging temperature can improve the yield and crystallinity of the produced HAP (14, 28, 29). Figure 2 also shows that the heights of peaks corresponding to dolomite, monetite, and calcite reduced when more HAP was produced, and when calcite and dolomite in the WP were consumed by the DAP solution to generate HAP.
The effect of aging temperature on the mineralogical composition of the produced WP-HAP made with a longer aging duration (15 d) is displayed in Figure 3. No significant difference can be found between the mineralogical compositions of the WP-HAP produced with an aging duration of 15 d or 3 d. Similar to Figure 2, higher crystallinity of the produced HAP was achieved at higher aging temperature, as displayed by the higher and sharper HAP peaks in the XRD patterns shown in Figure 3.
XRD patterns of WP-HAP samples aged for 15 d.
3.1.2. Effect of Aging Duration
Aging duration is another important factor influencing the growth of the produced HAP. Samples 3d50, 9d50, 15d50, and 21d50 were chosen to study the mineralogical evolution of HAP with aging duration at a fixed aging temperature. The chosen aging temperature was 50°C, since HAP can be synthesized at this temperature as shown in Figure 2. XRD patterns of these four samples are presented in Figure 4. It can be seen that longer aging duration can lead to a more complete reaction between WP and the DAP solution, as indicated by the change in the major peaks of dolomite at 2θ = 30° and calcite at 2θ = 29°. As shown in Figure 4, these two peaks gradually decrease or completely disappear with the aging duration. Meanwhile, more calcium phosphates are formed, especially HAP. At the aging duration of 3 d, the main peak of HAP at 2θ = 32° appears as a hump, indicating low crystallinity of the produced HAP. When the aging duration is 9 d or longer, peaks of HAP at this position become sharper, implying that the produced HAP has higher crystallinity.
XRD patterns of WP-HAP samples aged at 50°C.
3.2. Morphological Evolution of the Produced WP-HAP Samples
Morphology of the WP-HAP samples varied with the aging duration and temperature, as revealed by the SEM images shown in Figure 5. Figures 5(A) and (a) represent the SEM image and a close-up of the untreated WP powder, respectively. It can be seen that the WP particles have an irregular shape, consisting of smaller particles cemented together by the binder (Figure 5a). Figures 5(B) and (b) to (D) and (d) show the morphology change of the WP after reacting with the DAP solution. Figure 5(B) shows the morphology of the 3d23 sample. It can be seen that many spherical particles are formed and have aggregated on the unreacted WP particles. The close-up of this figure (Figure 5b) reveals that the surface of the WP-HAP particle is covered by a layer of leaf-like reaction products (mainly calcium or magnesium phosphates such as monetite and farringtonite), as identified by XRD analysis shown in Figure 2. When the reaction temperature was raised to 50°C, more hydration products were produced, and most of the WP particle surface was covered by the reaction products. This suggests that the reaction between the WP and DAP is more complete, due to the higher reaction temperature used to produce the 3d50 sample. Figure 5(c) shows the morphology of the reaction products of this sample, which is very similar to that of the 3d23 sample. At 80°C, leaf-like reaction products similar to those in 3d23 and 3d50 samples can be identified, as shown in Figures 5(D) and (d). However, details of the reaction products shown in Figure 5(d) reveals that some reaction products aggregated into larger and denser particles, leading to a smaller surface area. Figures 5(E) and (e) show the effect of a longer aging duration on the morphology of the HAP produced at 23°C. After aging for 15 d, more products were found produced on the surface of the WP particles than those after aging for 3 d (Figure 5(b)). When the reaction temperature was increased to 50°C, much denser rod-like hydration products were formed and were found coated on the particles (17), as shown in Figures 5(F) and (f). The morphology is similar to that of the 3d80 WP-HAP sample. Figure 5(G) presents the WP-HAP produced after aging for 15 d at 80°C, which is similar to the WP-HAP produced after aging for 3 d at the same temperature (Figure 5(D)). However, the detailed morphology of the reaction products deposited on the surface of the WP powder shown in Figure 5(g) is quite different from the one shown in Figure 5(d). The rod-like products present in Figure 5(d) disappear in Figure 5(g). Clearly, longer aging duration allows the reaction products to fuse and aggregate into denser and larger particles.
Typical SEM images of WP and WP-HAP samples: (A)/(a) WP; (B)/(b) 3d23; (C)/(c) 3d50; (D)/(d) 3d80; (E)/(e) 15d23; (F)/(f) 15d50; (G)/(g) 15d80.
The features of the produced WP-HAP samples revealed by SEM imaging can be further confirmed by their BET areas, as shown in Figure 6. The BET area of the untreated WP (0 d aging in Figure 6) is 1.855 m2/g. This surface area was increased to 15.946 m2/g after the reaction with DAP and aging for 3 d at 23°C. This 768% increase of the surface area is induced by the leaf-like porous reaction products deposited on the surface of the WP particles, as shown in Figures 5(B) and (b). This surface area can be further improved to 27.986 m2/g after aging for 3 d at 50°C, which is also in agreement with the SEM image shown in Figures 5(C) and (c). However, when the aging temperature was further increased to 80°C, the BET area of the produced WP-HAP sample reduced to 9.154 m2/g. As shown in Figure 5(d), some smaller particles of the reaction products fused/aggregated into denser/larger particles at this temperature, leading to a lower surface area. Longer aging duration (15 d) appears to increase the BET area of the WP-HAP produced to 23.305 m2/g at an aging temperature of 23°C. However, at higher aging temperatures (both 50°C and 80°C), longer aging duration (15 d) reduced the BET area of the produced WP-HAP powder. This is because HAP particles grew larger or fused into large particles, as shown in Figure 5.
BET areas of WP and WP-HAP samples.
Larger surface area is desirable for adsorbing heavy metals (12, 29). Figure 6 shows that there exist an optimal duration and temperature of aging, at which the BET surface area of the produced WP-HAP reaches the maximum. Under this optimal condition, the proposed method can increase the surface area of the untreated WP powder by at least 15 times, providing more sites for adsorbing the heavy metal ions.
3.3. Confirmation of Ion-exchange of the Synthesized WP-HAP with Ni<sup>2+</sup>
Figure 7 presents the XRD pattern of the produced 15d50 WP-HAP sample after adsorption testing. The most noteworthy difference in this pattern from the one shown in Figure 3 is that a new crystal, arupite (Ni3(PO4)2•8H2O, JCPDS, No. 46-1388), appears with the main peak at 2θ = 13.4°, which is consistent with the findings of De Angelis in their adsorption experiments (15). The production of arupite in this sample clearly confirms the ion-exchange between Ca and Ni. This is because the ionic radius of Ni2+ (0.69 Å) is close to that of Ca2+ (0.99 Å) and that enables Ni2+ to replace Ca2+ in the HAP crystal lattice (15, 16).
XRD patterns of WP-HAP samples (15d50) after adsorption of Ni2+. (A: arupite; D: dolomite; C: calcite; M: monetite; F: farringtonite; H: hydroxylapatite)
Ion-exchange with Ni2+ also modified the morphology of the produced WP-HAP sample, as revealed by the SEM images shown in Figure 8. It can be clearly seen that the surface of the sample has been significantly modified by the Ni2+. The rod-like HAP particles on the surface of the WP-HAP sample (Figures 5(F) and (f)) turned into platelets. These platelets can be determined as arupite, according to the XRD result (Figure 7) and EDS shown in Figure 8(c). This suggests that Ni2+ can be permanently adsorbed and stabled by the produced WP-HAP (11). Therefore, the waste putty has been successfully upcycled into value added heavy metal adsorbent.
SEM images and EDS result of WP-HAP (15d50) samples after adsorption testing: (a) and (b) SEM; (c) EDS result.
Ni content in the 15d50 WP-HAP sample after the adsorption test was measured by ICP-OES. The adsorption capacity of this sample for Ni2+ is 15 mg/g. This adsorption capacity is not high but is still comparable to other reported available adsorbents for Ni2+, i.e., 35.8 mg/g of barley straw (30), 18.42 mg/g of tea factory waste (31), 7.63 mg/g of phosphate rock (32). This is because only the surface of the WP has been converted into HAP by the proposed method. To improve the adsorption capacity of the WP-HAP, one can grind the WP into finer particles. This will increase the surface area of the WP, providing more reaction area between the WP and the DAP. As a result, more HAP can be produced that can greatly increase the adsorption capacity of the produced WP-HAP.
4. CONCLUSIONS
A method to upcycle non-structural C&D wastes as a heavy metal adsorbent is demonstrated in this study. Experimental study confirmed that HAP can be produced on the surface of waste putty particles by soaking the WP particles in a DAP solution at temperatures higher than 23°C. Higher aging temperature or longer aging duration is beneficial to the yield and crystallinity of the produced HAP crystals. Adsorption testing confirmed that ion-exchange of Ca2+ with Ni2+ in the produced HAP does take place, leading to the formation of arupite. Although a modest adsorption capacity for Ni2+ (15 mg/g) was achieved by the produced adsorbent due to the relatively large particle size of the WP, much higher adsorption capacity for heavy metal can be achieved by using finer WP powder.
The proposed wet chemical method for WP reuse is simple and cost-effective. More research will be carried out to optimize the manufacturing process and enhance the adsorption capacity of the new waste construction putty-based heavy metal adsorbent.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(NO. 2018M632518), Anhui Postdoctoral Science Foundation (NO.2017B150 and 2018B248), Natural Science Foundation of Anhui University (KJ2018A0074), Key Research and Development Program Project of Anhui Province (201904a07020081), Nature Science Foundation of Anhui (1908085QE213) and Huainan Science and Technology Planning Project (2018A363).
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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