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Novel Agglomeration Strategy for Elemental Sulfur Produced during Biological Gas Desulfurization
[Image: see text] This article presents a novel crystal agglomeration strategy for elemental sulfur (S) produced during biological desulfurization (BD). A key element is the nucleophilic dissolution of S by sulfide (HS(–)) to polysulfides (S(x)(2–)), which was enhanced by a sulfide-rich, anoxic reac...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8554788/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34722991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.1c03701 |
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author | Mol, Annemerel R. Meuwissen, Derek J. M. Pruim, Sebastian D. Zhou, Chenyu van Vught, Vincent Klok, Johannes B. M. Buisman, Cees J. N. van der Weijden, Renata D. |
author_facet | Mol, Annemerel R. Meuwissen, Derek J. M. Pruim, Sebastian D. Zhou, Chenyu van Vught, Vincent Klok, Johannes B. M. Buisman, Cees J. N. van der Weijden, Renata D. |
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description | [Image: see text] This article presents a novel crystal agglomeration strategy for elemental sulfur (S) produced during biological desulfurization (BD). A key element is the nucleophilic dissolution of S by sulfide (HS(–)) to polysulfides (S(x)(2–)), which was enhanced by a sulfide-rich, anoxic reactor. This study demonstrates that with enhanced S(x)(2–) formation, crystal agglomerates are formed with a uniform size (14.7 ± 3.1 μm). In contrast, with minimal S(x)(2–) formation, particle size fluctuates markedly (5.6 ± 5.9 μm) due to the presence of agglomerates and single crystals. Microscopic analysis showed that the uniformly sized agglomerates had an irregular structure, whereas the loose particles and agglomerates were more defined and bipyramidal. The irregular agglomerates are explained by dissolution of S by (poly)sulfides, which likely changed the crystal surface structure and disrupted crystal growth. Furthermore, S from S(x)(2–) appeared to form at least 5× faster than from HS(–) based on the average S(x)(2–) chain length of x ≈ 5, thereby stimulating particle agglomeration. In addition, microscopy suggested that S crystal growth proceeded via amorphous S globules. Our findings imply that the crystallization product is controlled by the balance between dissolution and formation of S. This new insight has a strong potential to prevent poor S settleability in BD. |
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spelling | pubmed-85547882021-10-29 Novel Agglomeration Strategy for Elemental Sulfur Produced during Biological Gas Desulfurization Mol, Annemerel R. Meuwissen, Derek J. M. Pruim, Sebastian D. Zhou, Chenyu van Vught, Vincent Klok, Johannes B. M. Buisman, Cees J. N. van der Weijden, Renata D. ACS Omega [Image: see text] This article presents a novel crystal agglomeration strategy for elemental sulfur (S) produced during biological desulfurization (BD). A key element is the nucleophilic dissolution of S by sulfide (HS(–)) to polysulfides (S(x)(2–)), which was enhanced by a sulfide-rich, anoxic reactor. This study demonstrates that with enhanced S(x)(2–) formation, crystal agglomerates are formed with a uniform size (14.7 ± 3.1 μm). In contrast, with minimal S(x)(2–) formation, particle size fluctuates markedly (5.6 ± 5.9 μm) due to the presence of agglomerates and single crystals. Microscopic analysis showed that the uniformly sized agglomerates had an irregular structure, whereas the loose particles and agglomerates were more defined and bipyramidal. The irregular agglomerates are explained by dissolution of S by (poly)sulfides, which likely changed the crystal surface structure and disrupted crystal growth. Furthermore, S from S(x)(2–) appeared to form at least 5× faster than from HS(–) based on the average S(x)(2–) chain length of x ≈ 5, thereby stimulating particle agglomeration. In addition, microscopy suggested that S crystal growth proceeded via amorphous S globules. Our findings imply that the crystallization product is controlled by the balance between dissolution and formation of S. This new insight has a strong potential to prevent poor S settleability in BD. American Chemical Society 2021-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8554788/ /pubmed/34722991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.1c03701 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Permits non-commercial access and re-use, provided that author attribution and integrity are maintained; but does not permit creation of adaptations or other derivative works (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Mol, Annemerel R. Meuwissen, Derek J. M. Pruim, Sebastian D. Zhou, Chenyu van Vught, Vincent Klok, Johannes B. M. Buisman, Cees J. N. van der Weijden, Renata D. Novel Agglomeration Strategy for Elemental Sulfur Produced during Biological Gas Desulfurization |
title | Novel Agglomeration Strategy for Elemental Sulfur
Produced during Biological Gas Desulfurization |
title_full | Novel Agglomeration Strategy for Elemental Sulfur
Produced during Biological Gas Desulfurization |
title_fullStr | Novel Agglomeration Strategy for Elemental Sulfur
Produced during Biological Gas Desulfurization |
title_full_unstemmed | Novel Agglomeration Strategy for Elemental Sulfur
Produced during Biological Gas Desulfurization |
title_short | Novel Agglomeration Strategy for Elemental Sulfur
Produced during Biological Gas Desulfurization |
title_sort | novel agglomeration strategy for elemental sulfur
produced during biological gas desulfurization |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8554788/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34722991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.1c03701 |
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