کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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1643277 | 1517246 | 2015 | 4 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• Paper sludge ash can be processed to form super-hydrophobic powder.
• Optimum processing involves dry milling paper sludge ash with stearic acid.
• This produces water contact angles >150°.
• Calcium stearate self-assembling surface monolayers form during milling.
Paper sludge ash (PSA) is a readily available waste material generated by the paper recycling industry. This work reports on the production of hydrophobic powders by dry milling PSA in the presence of a fatty acid surface functionalising agent. Optimum laboratory processing involves dry milling for 8 h with a 4 wt.% addition of stearic acid and this produced a super-hydrophobic powder with a water contact angle of 153°. Different chain length fatty acids were investigated but stearic acid produced the highest hydrophobicity. The super-hydrophobicity of PSA results from the micro-particulate texture induced by dry milling with simultaneous formation of calcium stearate self-assembling surface monolayers chemically bonded to fracture surfaces.
Journal: Materials Letters - Volume 142, 1 March 2015, Pages 80–83