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For the natural stone industry treatment of huge amount of
waste sludge resulting from the cutting and polishing of them
to produce slabs or tiles are main problems. The effective
treatment of this sludge is very important for reducing of the
sludge volume and overall operating costs. A group of
phenomena known collectively as electrokinetic effects, can be
exploited as the basis for determining zeta potentials.
In this study, detailed electrokinetic studies were performed
on the travertine samples received as natural and slurry form.
The electrokinetic measurements were conducted to find out
the effect of suspension pH and the solid content on the
surface potential of solid particles show that zeta potential ()
of travertine is positive at pH 9.76 over the all solid contents
studied in this work.
ELECTROKINETIC
MEASUREMENTS
In order to examine the effect of these ions on surface potential, the potential measurements were also performed with different amounts of
NaCl additions in measurement solutions (Fig. 5). The result confirmed the
potential of the particle is sensitive to the ionic strength of the solution. In
general, potential of the surface increases with increasing NaCl
concentration. However, compared to electrolyte-free solution, addition of a
lower amount of NaCl to the solution decreases potential of particles. For
0.002 M NaCl addition, -potential of the solid surface decreases from 2.64
mV to -1.34 mV
CONCLUSION
The electrochemical measurement results showed that the
surface charges of the travertine particles in distilled water are
strongly affected by the suspension pH and the solid content of
solution. It was found that the surface potential of solid particles
is positive at pH 9.76 over the all solid contents studied.
The particle surfaces are negatively charged between pH values
of 6 and 8 due to the higher concentrations of dissolved specific
ions i.e. Ca2+ and Mg2+ in the waste slurry. These results
highlight the importance of influence of the source of the
slurries on the surface charge or the magnitude of potential of
particles and confirmed that potential of the particle surface is
sensitive to the ionic strength of the solution
The measurements in the presence of polymer concentration
of 0.001% to 0.1 % (wt/vol) clearly indicated that the flocculant
molecules are adsorbed extensively on the travertine particles,