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Recyclable structured toxic industrial nickel-containing sludge for efficient anionic contaminant adsorption

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Safe, efficient, and simultaneous treatment of toxic industrial sludge and anionic contaminant crisis in one route still remains a persistent global challenge. Herein, we proposed a facile waste-control-waste conceptual design strategy to develop low-cost and high-performance sludge-based adsorbent for not only recycling of toxic waste nickel-containing sludge (NCS) but for the efficient removal of anionic contaminants in wastewater. The as-designed Ni–Al layered double oxides/calcined NCS (Ni–Al LDOs/CNCS) (216.96 m2/g, 0.44 cm3/g) with hierarchical porous structure possessed a larger specific surface area and well-developed porosity compared with raw NCS (60.52 m2/g, 0.26 cm3/g). It was proved that a higher hydrothermal temperature (180 °C) and a longer hydrothermal time (24 h) both promote the in situ assembly of LDHs nanosheets on CNCS surface. Significantly, the sludge-based adsorbent displayed high adsorption capacity towards five representative anions including F− (~ 31.1 mg/g), SO42− (~ 37.7 mg/g), NO3− (~ 21.8 mg/g), Cl− (~ 28.0 mg/g), and H2PO4− (~ 35.8 mg/g). Furthermore, the adsorbent maintained desirable adsorption capacity even after 6 adsorption/desorption cycles. Therefore, this study could be potentially extended toward design of other industrial waste sludge–derived high value-added advanced materials and for wastewater treatment applications.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21706100 and 21878132), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2020M681740 and 2021T140578), Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (E2021108005), 333 Talent Project Foundation of Hebei Province (A202101029), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20211126) and Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (KYCX21_3388 and SJCX22_1856).

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    Qiong Tian, Zhipeng Lin, Fengxian Qiu, Zhangdi Li & Tao Zhang

  2. Zhenjiang Environmental Monitoring Center, Zhenjiang, 212004, China

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Qiong Tian: investigation, formal analysis, methodology, writing—original draft. Zhipeng Lin: investigation. Fengxian Qiu: supervision, project administration, writing—review and editing. Zhangdi Li: visualization, software. Qing Guo: investigation. Tao Zhang: supervision, writing—review and editing.

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Tian, Q., Lin, Z., Qiu, F. et al. Recyclable structured toxic industrial nickel-containing sludge for efficient anionic contaminant adsorption. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 64259–64265 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-22523-w

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