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EXPERIMENTAL AND SIMULATION STUDIES ON HEMATITE INTERACTION WITH NA-METASILICATE PENTAHYDRATE

dc.creatorGONZALO RENATO ANDRÉS QUEZADA ESCALONA
dc.date2023
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-10T15:37:37Z
dc.date.available2025-01-10T15:37:37Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractIRON ORE IS A FUNDAMENTAL PILLAR IN CONSTRUCTION GLOBALLY, HOWEVER, ITS PROCESS IS HIGHLY POLLUTING AND DEPOSITS ARE BECOMING LESS CONCENTRATED, MAKING REUSING OR REPROCESSING ITS SOURCES A SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION TO THE CURRENT INDUSTRY. A RHEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS WAS PERFORMED TO UNDERSTAND THE EFFECT OF SODIUM METASILICATE ON THE FLOW CURVES OF CONCENTRATED PULPS. THE STUDY WAS CARRIED OUT IN AN ANTON PAAR MCR 102 RHEOMETER, SHOWING THAT, IN A WIDE RANGE OF DOSAGES, THE REAGENT CAN REDUCE THE YIELD STRESS OF THE SLURRIES, WHICH WOULD RESULT IN LOWER ENERGY COSTS FOR TRANSPORTING THE PULPS BY PUMPING. TO UNDERSTAND THE BEHAVIOR OBSERVED EXPERIMENTALLY, COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION HAS BEEN USED BY MEANS OF QUANTUM CALCULATIONS TO REPRESENT THE METASILICATE MOLECULE AND THE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS TO STUDY THE ADSORPTION OF METASILICATE ON THE HEMATITE SURFACE. IT HAS BEEN POSSIBLE TO OBTAIN THAT THE ADSORPTION IS STABLE ON THE SURFACE OF HEMATITE, WHERE INCREASING THE CONCENTRATION OF METASILICATE INCREASES ITS ADSORPTION ON THE SURFACE. THE ADSORPTION COULD BE MODELED BY THE SLIPS MODEL WHERE THERE IS A DELAY IN ADSORPTION AT LOW CONCENTRATIONS AND THEN A SATURATED VALUE IS REACHED. IT WAS FOUND THAT METASILICATE REQUIRES THE PRESENCE OF SODIUM IONS TO BE ADSORBED ON THE SURFACE BY MEANS OF A CATION BRIDGE-TYPE INTERACTION. IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE TO IDENTIFY THAT IT IS ABSORBED BY MEANS OF HYDROGEN BRIDGES, BUT TO A LESSER EXTENT THAN THE CATION BRIDGE. FINALLY, IT IS OBSERVED THAT THE PRESENCE OF METASILICATE ADSORBED ON THE SURFACE MODIFIES THE NET SURFACE CHARGE, INCREASING IT AND, THUS, GENERATING THE EFFECT OF DISPERSION OF HEMATITE PARTICLES WHICH EXPERIMENTALLY IS OBSERVED AS A DECREASE IN RHEOLOGY.
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dc.identifier.doi10.3390/molecules28083629
dc.identifier.issn1420-3049
dc.identifier.issn1420-3049
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.ubiobio.cl/handle/123456789/12903
dc.languagespa
dc.publisherMOLECULES
dc.relation.uri10.3390/molecules28083629
dc.rightsPUBLICADA
dc.subjectsodium metasilicate
dc.subjectrheology
dc.subjectmolecular dynamics
dc.subjectinteraction mechanisms
dc.subjecthematite
dc.titleEXPERIMENTAL AND SIMULATION STUDIES ON HEMATITE INTERACTION WITH NA-METASILICATE PENTAHYDRATE
dc.typeARTÍCULO
dspace.entity.typePublication
ubb.EstadoPUBLICADA
ubb.Otra ReparticionDEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERIA EN MADERAS
ubb.SedeCONCEPCIÓN
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