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A Simple and Mild Synthesis of Zeolite Y from Bauxite Tailings for Lead Adsorption: Reusable, Efficient and Highly Selective

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Zeolite Y was successfully synthesized by a hydrothermal method using bauxite tailings as starting materials to effectively remove Pb(II) from wastewater. It was shown that pure zeolite Y with typical octahedral microstructure was obtained when n(SiO2/Al2O3) was 7, n(H2O/Na2O) was 35, hydrothermal at 100 °C for 10 h. The results of N2 adsorption–desorption showed that the prepared samples possessed relatively high BET surface areas of 875 m2/g. The adsorption capacity of Pb(II) by the zeolite Y in aqueous solutions reached 443.87 mg/g, and the maximum removal efficiency was 99.95%. In addition, after five circulating adsorptions, the removal efficiency of Pb(II) was maintained as high as 99.2%, indicating that zeolite Y had excellent reusability. The selective adsorption results of Pb2+–K+–Cd2+ ternary system solution revealed that when the concentration ratio was 1:1:1, the removal efficiency of Pb(II) was 5.5 times of Cd(II), and K(I) was almost not adsorbed. The high adsorption capacity and excellent selective adsorption of Pb(II) indicated that the zeolite Y could be a suitable absorbent for lead removal, moreover, this work explored a new way to improve the utilization of bauxite tailings.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. U1810205, 51972019). Simultaneously, the key projects of national key R & D plan (Grant No. 2020YFB0606205) is duly acknowledged for their financial support.

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    Nana Yang, Lizheng Gou, Min Guo & Mei Zhang

  2. Central Research Institute of Building and Construction Co., Ltd, MCC Group, Beijing, China

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  3. Institute of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education for CO2 Emission Reduction and Resource Utilization, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, China

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MZ conceived and designed the experiments, responsible for experimental progress, discussion during the experiment; MG conceived and designed the experiments; LG and ZB provided and disposed bauxite tailings; FC responsible for the test in the experiment; NY performed the experiments, analyzed the data and wrote the paper.

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Yang, N., Gou, L., Bai, Z. et al. A Simple and Mild Synthesis of Zeolite Y from Bauxite Tailings for Lead Adsorption: Reusable, Efficient and Highly Selective. J Inorg Organomet Polym 32, 3496–3507 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10904-022-02377-y

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