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Solidification and Biotoxicity Assessment of Thermally Treated Municipal Solid Waste Incineration (MSWI) Fly Ash

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  • Bing Gong

    (School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Yi Deng

    (School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Yuanyi Yang

    (Department of Materials Engineering, Sichuan College of Architectural Technology, Deyang 618000, China)

  • Swee Ngin Tan

    (National Sciences and Science Education, National Institute of Education, Singapore 637616, Singapore)

  • Qianni Liu

    (School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China)

  • Weizhong Yang

    (School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China)

Abstract

In the present work, thermal treatment was used to stabilize municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) fly ash, which was considered hazardous waste. Toxicity characteristic leaching procedure (TCLP) results indicated that, after the thermal process, the leaching concentrations of Pb, Cu, and Zn decreased from 8.08 to 0.16 mg/L, 0.12 to 0.017 mg/L and 0.39 to 0.1 mg/L, respectively, which well met the limits in GB5085.3-2007 and GB16689-2008. Thermal treatment showed a negative effect on the leachability of Cr with concentrations increasing from 0.1 to 1.28 mg/L; nevertheless, it was still under the limitations. XRD analysis suggested that, after thermal treatments, CaO was newly generated. CaO was a main contribution to higher Cr leaching concentrations owing to the formation of Cr (VI)—compounds such as CaCrO 4 . SEM/EDS tests revealed that particle adhesion, agglomeration, and grain growth happened during the thermal process and thus diminished the leachability of Pb, Cu, and Zn, but these processes had no significant influence on the leaching of Cr. A microbial assay demonstrated that all thermally treated samples yet possessed strong bactericidal activity according to optical density (OD) test results. Among all samples, the OD value of raw fly ash (RFA) was lowest followed by FA700-10, FA900-10, and FA1100-10 in an increasing order, which indicated that the sequence of the biotoxicity for these samples was RFA > FA700-10 > FA900-10 > FA1100-10. This preliminary study indicated that, apart from TCLP criteria, the biotoxicity assessment was indispensable for evaluating the effect of thermal treatment for MSWI fly ash.

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  • Bing Gong & Yi Deng & Yuanyi Yang & Swee Ngin Tan & Qianni Liu & Weizhong Yang, 2017. "Solidification and Biotoxicity Assessment of Thermally Treated Municipal Solid Waste Incineration (MSWI) Fly Ash," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-10, June.
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    1. Po-Wen Chen & Zhen-Shu Liu & Min-Jie Wun & Tai-Chen Kuo, 2016. "Cellular Mutagenicity and Heavy Metal Concentrations of Leachates Extracted from the Fly and Bottom Ash Derived from Municipal Solid Waste Incineration," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-10, November.
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    1. Yanqing Zhang & Xiaohui Wang & Yuanfeng Qi & Fei Xi, 2019. "Incineration Kinetic Analysis of Upstream Oily Sludge and Sectionalized Modeling in Differential/Integral Method," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(3), pages 1-19, January.

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