Issue 15, 2015

Coal fly ash industrial waste recycling for fabrication of mullite-whisker-structured porous ceramic membrane supports

Abstract

With recyclable industrial waste coal fly ash and bauxite as starting materials, porous mullite-whisker-structured ceramic membrane supports were fabricated at sintering temperatures ranging from 1100 to 1400 °C with addition of AlF3 and MoO3 as crystallization catalyst and mineralizer, respectively. Dynamic sintering of mullite membrane supports was first studied. Then the characterizations were focused on open porosity, pore size distribution, gas flux and mechanical properties, microstructure and phase evolution. It shows that the introduction of MoO3 effectively promoted the growth of elongated mullite crystals in the membrane support by reducing the high temperature viscosity of the liquid melt. Addition of 5 wt% MoO3 lowered the secondary mullitization temperature, resulting in more mullite formation at temperatures as low as 1200 °C, while a porosity of 45.4 ± 0.9% was obtained. After sintering at 1200 °C, the open porosity was 47.3 ± 0.6% for the sample containing 4 wt% AlF3. The co-introduction of MoO3 and AlF3 promoted formation of a whisker-interlocked porous structure, which effectively improved open porosity and permeation flux without significant mechanical strength degradation.

Graphical abstract: Coal fly ash industrial waste recycling for fabrication of mullite-whisker-structured porous ceramic membrane supports

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
22 Sep 2014
Accepted
06 Jan 2015
First published
08 Jan 2015

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 11163-11174

Author version available

Coal fly ash industrial waste recycling for fabrication of mullite-whisker-structured porous ceramic membrane supports

L. Zhu, Y. Dong, L. Li, J. Liu and S. You, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 11163 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA10912K

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