Selection of suitable surfactants for the incorporation of organic liquids into fresh geopolymer pastes

Pierlot, Christel; Hu, Hanyu; Reeb, Charles; Bassetti, Jordan; Bertin, Matthieu; Lambertin, David; Davy, Catherine; Nardello‐Rataj, Véronique

doi:10.1016/j.ces.2022.117635

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“…The viscosity of geopolymer slurries generally helps to prevent coalescence of OL droplets formed by mechanical stirring until hardening of the paste. However, at high incorporation rates and for low viscosity OL 30) , coalescence of OL droplets becomes more favorable, and this leads to phase separation. In such cases, the addition of surfactants can be necessary to maintain emulsion stability.…”

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“…Beneficial effect of CTAB on the incorporation of a moderately viscous oil 30) has been already shown, thus this surfactant will be used as reference to examine the incorporation of a very fluid oil mixture TBP/dodecane. Moreover, to see the influence of the hydrophobic part of the QA alkyl chain, we also compared the effect of another surfactant with an octyl chain.…”

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“…This article is the continuation of our previous work 30) with a view to completing the interest of online torque monitoring carried out in the reactor before and during the incorporation of organic liquids, and in particular to see the effect of an excess of additive (such as surfactant) in the reaction medium. The objective is to determine to what extent torque tracking provides relevant information on both the oil incorporation process and its distribution in the GP.…”

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“…The objective is to determine to what extent torque tracking provides relevant information on both the oil incorporation process and its distribution in the GP. Another notable modification compared to reference 30) is the study of low viscosity organic fluid, tributylphosphate (TBP) and dodecane. Their low viscosity, implies that their incorporation into fresh GP requires the use of additives.…”

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Oil and Organic Liquids Incorporation into Fresh Geopolymer Pastes Using Suitable Quaternary Ammonium Surfactants

Pierlot,

Boland,

et al. 2024

J. Oleo Sci.

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ance of chemical stabilization of many compounds and produces a mechanically stable form of waste. Unfortunately, the stabilization of organic liquids (OL) in Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) greatly retards and disrupts cement setting, and organic liquids generally form weak chemical bonds in cement unlike some inorganics 5,6) . Due to these disadvantages, geopolymers could be a solution to replace OPC for the incorporation of organic liquids and also for the treatment of OL waste.Since the resulting paste hardens to form a solid material (hardened GP) , mixing organic liquids (OL) with such aqueous suspensions 1, 2, 7, 8) has been recently described for the synthesis of porosity-controlled media, thermal insulating foams or filtration supports 9−13) and for the treatment of radioactive wastes 14,15) .In order to understand the immobilization of radioactive organic liquid wastes, alkanes 14,16) and paraffin oils 17) are used as model oils. The one-step incorporation process, which seems industrially more reasonable than the two-Abstract: The direct incorporation of low viscosity organic liquids (OL) such as dodecane and tributylphosphate (TBP) into fresh geopolymers (GP) is difficult and generally leads to variable amounts of un-incorporated OL remaining outside the hardened geopolymer. Experimentally, it is observed that a regular torque increase during OL incorporation corresponds to a suitable dispersion of the OL in the form of fine micrometric droplets. This can be obtained for TBP and dodecane by adding a small quantity of quaternary ammoniums salts (QAs) such as cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB). Shorter alkyl chains QAs, such as hexamethyltrimethylammonium (HMTA) can also be used but with a reduced efficiency. The positive impact of CTAB is then confirmed by the Washburn capillary rise method, showing that the interactions between TBP and CTAB-modified metakaolin are weaker compared to untreated powder. Finally, it is observed that the incorporation of TBP into geopolymer slurries is much easier than the incorporation of dodecane. The low interfacial tension measured between TBP and the activating solution (around 8 mN•m -1 ), contrasting with dodecane (29 mN•m -1 ), explains that the dispersion of TBP droplets in fresh metakaolin suspensions is more efficient.

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Section: Incorporation Of Tbp/dodecane In Gp Using Quaternary Ammoniu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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