Aqueous Solubility Diagrams for Cementitious Waste Stabilization Systems. 3. Mechanism of Zinc Immobilizaton by Calcium Silicate Hydrate
- 30 May 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Environmental Science & Technology
- Vol. 36 (13), 2919-2925
- https://doi.org/10.1021/es0102484
Abstract
Zinc oxide was added during hydration of alite (C3S) as an analogue for solidification/stabilization by cement of metal-bearing hazardous waste. Curing of samples was stopped at various intervals between 8 h and 100 d, and the reaction products were analyzed by both X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (EXAFS at Zn, Ca, and Si K-edges). Calcium zincate hydrate (CaZn2(OH)6·2H2O) initially formed together with calcium silicate hydrate (CSH) vanishes from X-ray diffractograms after 14 d, and no other crystalline Zn-bearing phase could be detected thereafter. EXAFS Zn K-edge data analysis reveals that Zn(O,OH)4 tetrahedra continue to determine the first shell coordination. However, a new Zn−Si bond appears in the second coordination shell as indicated by both Zn K-edge and Si K-edge EXAFS. Together with the Ca−Zn and Ca−Ca shells derived from the Ca K-edge EXAFS spectra, a structural model for the site occupation of Zn in CSH is proposed, whereby the Zn(O,OH)4 tetrahedra are bound in layer rather than interlayer positions substituting for the silicate bridging tetrahedra and/or at terminal silicate chain sites. This structural model enables ultimately the formulation of a thermodyamic Lippmann model to predict the aqueous solubility of Zn in solid solution with a CSH phase of a Ca/Si ratio fixed to unity.Keywords
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