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Enhanced Removal of Sulfonated Lignite from Oilfield Wastewater by Soft Colloidal Templated Porous Structure of MgAl-LDH

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Mg/Al layered double hydroxides (LDH) with mesoporous and microstructures based on soft colloidal template were prepared by co-precipitation method, employing salicylic acid and the anionic surfactant cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide as soft templates. N2 adsorption–desorption isotherms, SEM and XRD, were employed to describe the morphology and structure of the samples, respectively. The results showed that structured MgAl-LDH with mesoporous and microstructures dispersed uniformly with increasing the average pore diameter and specific surface area of the samples. The absorption activity of obtained structured MgAl-LDH to sulfonated lignite containing in wastewater of oil field has been investigated. The prepared structured MgAl-LDH could adsorb SL and attain equilibrium in 60 min with better removal efficiency than MgAl-LDH. Due to its relatively special layered pore size distribution and large surface area, the adsorption capacity can reach 510.2 mg/g when the initial concentration is 600 mg/L and adsorbent dosage is 0.3 g/L at 308 K and pH 7.0. The adsorption process of sulfonated lignite is exothermic in nature and follows to the Langmuir adsorption isotherm model and the pseudo-second-order kinetic model.

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We thank the work of Modern Analysis and Testing Center of Xi'an Shiyou University.

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The work was supported financially by the Youth Innovation Team of Shaanxi University, Scientific Research Program Funded by Shaanxi Provincial Education Department (23JP133) and Postgraduate Innovation Fund Project of Xi'an Shiyou University (YCS20211012).

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    Ying Tang, Bingbing Bai, Ya Wu, Bo Yang, Ling Zhou & Chentun Qu

  2. Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Reservoir Protection Technology of Oilfields, Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an, China

    Ying Tang & Chentun Qu

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Tang, Y., Bai, B., Wu, Y. et al. Enhanced Removal of Sulfonated Lignite from Oilfield Wastewater by Soft Colloidal Templated Porous Structure of MgAl-LDH. Water Air Soil Pollut 235, 188 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-024-06993-x

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