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Immobilization of Hazardous Ferronickel Slag Treated using Ternary Limestone Calcined Clay Cement
Construction and Building Materials
  • Yu-cun Gu
  • Jin-Lin Li
  • Jun-Kai Peng
  • Feng Xing
  • Wu-Jian Long
  • Kamal Khayat, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

This study aims to develop the limestone calcined clay (LC3) as a low-carbon treatment to immobilize waste ferronickel slag (FNS) containing heavy metals. The results indicate that the ordinary portland cement (OPC) and limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) adequately immobilized the Chromium (Cr), with the leaching results of 0.10-0.30 mg/L. The LC3 cement provided superior Mn immobilization (lower than 5 mg/L) compared to OPC. Calcium aluminum silicate hydrate (C-A-S-H) and ettringite (AFt) were the two main hydrated products of LC3 that ensure the capacity to encapsulate metals. The LC3 specimens had the lower porosity between 50 and 10,000 nm compared to that of OPC. The Embodied Energy (EE) and Embodied Carbon Emissions (ECO2e) of per m3 LC3 remarkably decreased by 38.21% and 44.77%.

Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Comments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Science and Technology Project of Shenzhen , China (No. JCYJ20180305124844894) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51778368 ).
Keywords and Phrases
  • Environmental assessment,
  • Ferronickel slag,
  • Heavy metal leaching,
  • Limestone calcined clay cement,
  • Solidification/stabilization
Document Type
Article - Journal
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Citation
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text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2020 Elsevier, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
7-30-2020
Publication Date
30 Jul 2020
Disciplines
Citation Information
Yu-cun Gu, Jin-Lin Li, Jun-Kai Peng, Feng Xing, et al.. "Immobilization of Hazardous Ferronickel Slag Treated using Ternary Limestone Calcined Clay Cement" Construction and Building Materials Vol. 250 (2020) ISSN: 0950-0618
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kamal-khayat/107/