Facile synthesis of waste-based CdS-loaded hierarchically porous geopolymer for adsorption-photocatalysis of organic contamination and its environmental risks.

Chemosphere

State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, Ministry of Education, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China; The Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences, Ministry of Education, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China. Electronic address:

Published: December 2022

In order to obtain an adsorbent-photocatalyst with low-cost, strong stability and great reusability/recyclability, a waste-based and CdS-loaded hierarchically porous geopolymer (HPG) was prepared by facile synthesis. The adsorption-photocatalysis ability, reusability, and stability of HPG under different conditions were determined. Results indicated that HPG showed better adsorption-photocatalysis performance for organic dyes under alkaline environment, and it remained a high adsorption-photocatalysis efficiency after used for five times. Furthermore, HPG was stable in different environment conditions (strong acidic, acid raining, neutral, high salinity, and high alkali environment). The mass loss of HPG were around 3.22-6.68% (7 days extraction), and the immobilization rates of Cd in neutral, high salinity, and high alkali environments were higher than 99.99%. Under visible light irradiation, HPG effectively photo-degraded the organic substances in overlying water of polluted sediments. After 330 min irradiation, the concentrations of COD and TOC were decreased from 47.52 mg/L and 20.9 mg/L to 16.58 mg/L and 11.19 mg/L, respectively. The humic-like and fulvic-like substances were transformed to protein-like substances under photo-degradation effect. This study confirmed that HPG possesses advantages in cost, chemical stability, and reusability, and it has a great potential to be used as in-situ remediation environmental functional material for organic contaminants in lake.

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