Pilot-scale study of the radiation-induced silica removal from underground brackish water in Saudi Arabia
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Mohammed S. Aljohani
Abstract
Silica scaling deposition in industrial water systems is one of the biggest challenges facing the water treatment industry due the low solubility of the scalants in the feed waters. In this preliminary work, we investigated the effectiveness of the ionizing radiation induced removal of silica in water sample from the Salbukh, Saudi Arabia, water treatment plant by using metallic iron as the source of ferric hydroxide to co-precipitate the silica. The influence of several reaction parameters, i.e. iron powder dosage, radiation dose, initial pH and equilibrium pH effect were investigated. In the optimum conditions, up to 75% of silica was removed. This preliminary study showed that this environmentally friendly process is effective in silica removal from underground water.
Acknowledgements
This work was partly funded by the Nuclear Engineering Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Neutron capture cross section measurements and theoretical calculation for the 186W(n,γ)187W reaction
- Adsorption of U(VI) ions from aqueous solutions by activated carbon prepared from Antep pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) shells
- Radiolytic syntheses of hollow UO2 nanospheres in Triton X-100-based lyotropic liquid crystals
- Hafnium(IV) complexation with oxalate at variable temperatures
- Radioiodinated famotidine as a new highly selective radiotracer for peptic ulcer disorder detection, diagnostic nuclear imaging and biodistribution
- Optimized production, quality control, biological evaluation and PET/CT imaging of 68Ga-PSMA-617 in breast adenocarcinoma model
- Pilot-scale study of the radiation-induced silica removal from underground brackish water in Saudi Arabia
- Developing methodologies for source attribution: glass phase separation in Trinitite using NF3
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Neutron capture cross section measurements and theoretical calculation for the 186W(n,γ)187W reaction
- Adsorption of U(VI) ions from aqueous solutions by activated carbon prepared from Antep pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) shells
- Radiolytic syntheses of hollow UO2 nanospheres in Triton X-100-based lyotropic liquid crystals
- Hafnium(IV) complexation with oxalate at variable temperatures
- Radioiodinated famotidine as a new highly selective radiotracer for peptic ulcer disorder detection, diagnostic nuclear imaging and biodistribution
- Optimized production, quality control, biological evaluation and PET/CT imaging of 68Ga-PSMA-617 in breast adenocarcinoma model
- Pilot-scale study of the radiation-induced silica removal from underground brackish water in Saudi Arabia
- Developing methodologies for source attribution: glass phase separation in Trinitite using NF3
