Towards sustainable coal industry: Turning coal bottom ash into wealth

H Zhou, R Bhattarai, Y Li, B Si, X Dong, T Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although the world is gradually moving towards renewable energy resources, the coal
industry will continue to be a major energy supply sector in the foreseeable future. However …

A review of the alumina production from coal fly ash, with a focus in Russia

D Valeev, P Bobylev, N Osokin, I Zolotova… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Coal combustion used by the Combined heat and power plants (CHPs) generates solid
wastes-coal fly ash (CFA). Up to 22% of the total electricity supply in Russian is coal …

A sustainable method for germanium, vanadium and lithium extraction from coal fly ash: Sodium salts roasting and organic acids leaching

H Rezaei, SZ Shafaei, H Abdollahi, A Shahidi… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
The paper proposes an environmentally friendly process for recovering germanium, lithium,
and vanadium from coal fly ash (CFA) using thermal pretreatment and hydrometallurgy. To …

Challenges, regulations, and case studies on sustainable management of industrial waste

RR Srivastava, DK Rajak, S Ilyas, H Kim, P Pathak - Minerals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Incessant generation and mismanagement of industrial waste, resource scarcity, and
environmental degradation have created non-sustainability in human life. Though industrial …

Recovering precipitates from dechlorination process of saline wastewater as poly aluminum chloride

J Guo, Z Zhou, Q Ming, Z Huang, J Zhu, S Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Chemical sludge massively generated from chloride removal of saline wastewater by the
Friedel's salt precipitation method is difficult to handle and dispose. In this study, a novel …

Rare-Earth Elements Extraction from Low-Alkali Desilicated Coal Fly Ash by (NH4)2SO4 + H2SO4

A Shoppert, D Valeev, J Napol'skikh, I Loginova, J Pan… - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Coal fly ash (CFA) obtained from pulverized coal furnaces is a highly refractory waste that
can be used for alumina and rare-earth elements (REEs) extraction. The REEs in this type of …

The discrepancy between coal ash from muffle, Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB), and Pulverized Coal (PC) furnaces, with a focus on the recovery of iron and rare earth …

J Pan, X Long, L Zhang, A Shoppert, D Valeev, C Zhou… - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Coal ash (CA) is not only one of the most solid wastes from combustion, easily resulting in a
series of concerns, but it is also an artificial deposit with considerable metals, such as iron …

Simultaneous separation of Fe & Al and extraction of Fe from waste coal fly ash: Altering the charge sequence of ions by electrolysis

Y Shi, K Jiang, T Zhang, X Zhu - Waste Management, 2022 - Elsevier
A significant amount of coal fly ash is generated and this type of waste material causes
severe environmental hazards. Metal (Al and Fe) extraction from coal fly ash is beneficial to …

Removal of COD in wastewater by magnetic coagulant prepared from modified fly ash

W Wang, L Qi, P Zhang, J Luo, J Li - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, magnetic coagulants (Fe-AFA, Fe-BFA) were prepared, by mixing acid-
modified fly ash (AFA) and base-modified fly ash (BFA) with magnetic components, as …

Separation of alumina from aluminum-rich coal fly ash using NaOH molten salt calcination and hydrochemical process

J Yang, H Sun, T Peng, L Zeng, L Chao - Clean Technologies and …, 2022 - Springer
High-alumina coal fly ash (CFA) is considered as an important and cheap resource of
aluminum. On account of high valence aluminum often trapped in aluminosilicate basic …