From pollutant to valuable phenolic resin: a novel reutilization strategy of industrial semi-coking wastewater

Wang, Yufei; Liu, Qianqian; Yan, Long; Li, Jian; Xie, Gang; Chen, Sanping; Wu, Jianjun

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134477

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“…The current semicoking wastewater treatment methods encounter many problems, such as high costs, long and complicated follow-up treatment processes, and serious secondary pollution after extraction. − Therefore, improvements in the treatment of semicoking wastewater are urgently required. Our group reported a simple method using semicoking wastewater to produce phenolic resin (SWPR), which can be applied in the treatment of wastewater and creates valuable products at the same time . However, the SWPR prepared by this method has complex components and is difficult to directly use.…”

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Porous Carbon-Based Phase Change Material Host Matrix from Semicoking Wastewater

Wang,

Yan,

Liu

et al. 2023

ACS Appl. Eng. Mater.

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The capture and storage of solar energy using phase change materials (PCMs) are very important for cost-effective energy management. However, their low thermal conductivity and liquid phase leakage pose persistent challenges for effectively harvesting thermal energy with PCMs. Herein, using semicoking wastewater-derived phenolic resin (SWPR) as the carbon source and potassium hydroxide as activator, hierarchical porous carbon (HPC) materials with abundant porous structures were synthesized to confine the PCM. The HPCs generated microporous and mesoporous layered cavities that provided more space as well as capillary adsorption and physical interaction for PCM storage. Shape-stable phase change composites (PCCs) were then fabricated by vacuum impregnation of the HPCs with paraffin wax to address the problems of low thermal conductivity and liquid melt leakage. The PCCs exhibited high energy storage densities of up to 84.07 J g −1 , dimensional stability, excellent thermal cycle stability, and the phase transition enthalpy of around 80.25 J g −1 after 500 heating−cooling cycles. The carbon support increased the thermal conductivity of the optimum PCC by 166% compared to that of pure paraffin wax. This study provides a cost-effective and environmentally friendly method for shape-stable PCMs based on waste-derived porous carbon materials with potential applications in solar−thermal energy storage.

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