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Compressive Strength of Geopolymeric Cubes Produced from Solid Wastes of Alum Industry and Drinking Water Treatment Plants

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

In this work, geopolymer is produced from two by-products waste as an alternative environmentally green construction and building materials without using Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC). Water Treatment Sludge (WTS) from Marg Drinking Water Treatment Plants in Cairo and De-Aluminated Kaolin (DAK) from Egyptian Company for Aluminum Sulfate were used in this study. Sodium hydroxide (NaOH)solution was used as an alkaline activator. The effect of the various influential factors on the compressive strengths of WTS/DAK geopolymer was investigated. These factors are mixing ingredient (WTS/DAK) ratios and amounts of NaOH of different normality. The mineralogical and chemical compositions of the WTS/DAK wastes were obtained using X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyses. Results show that the optimum ingredients providing maximum strength are the Na2O/SiO2 ratio of 0.56 and WTS/DAK ratio of 30:70. The development of compressive strengths over curing time of WTS/DAK geopolymer samples at optimum ingredients (30:70 WTS/DAK, 60 g NaOH 10 N and 70 oC for 72 hours). The compressive strength of WTS/DAK geopolymer gives 17 MPa after 7 days and increased to the maximum strength of 22 MPa at 28 days. The compressive strengths obtained to comply with the Egyptian Industrial Standards. Moreover, the WTS that traditionally disposed into landfills or drainage canals can be used sustainably in developing cement-free geopolymers with economic and environmental significance.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2019.12745.1790

Keywords

Geopolymer, Water treatment sludge, Dealuminated Kaolin, Compressive strength, aluminum sulfate, environment

Authors

First Name

mohamed

Last Name

Dohim

MiddleName

abdelmawla

Affiliation

Environmental Science Dept., Faculty of Science, Port Said University, Port Said Gov., Egypt

Email

mohamed.abdelmawla.eg@gmail.com

City

cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-3986-6915

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Abdelaal

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Environmental Science Department, Faculty of Science, Port Said University, Port said Gov., Egypt.

Email

ak_elmalt@yahoo.com

City

cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Mokhtar

Last Name

Beheary

MiddleName

Samy

Affiliation

Environmental Sciences Dep., Faculty of Science, Port Said University, Port Said Gov., Egypt

Email

beheary@hotmail.com

City

port said

Orcid

-

First Name

Nabil

Last Name

Abdullah

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Research, Development and Scientific Services Dept., Egyptian Co. for Aluminum Sulfate, Kaliobeya Gov., Egypt

Email

nabilxp9@gmail.com

City

Giza

Orcid

-

First Name

taha

Last Name

A. Razek

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Basic Science Dept., Environmental Studies and Researches Institute, Ain shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

taha.rarek@yahoo.com

City

cairo

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-

Volume

62

Article Issue

12

Related Issue

9517

Issue Date

2019-12-01

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2019-05-13

Publish Date

2019-12-01

Page Start

2,331

Page End

2,340

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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444

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Compressive Strength of Geopolymeric Cubes Produced from Solid Wastes of Alum Industry and Drinking Water Treatment Plants

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22 Jan 2023