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ArticlePolymers2025

Long-Term Physical and Chemical Stability and Energy Recovery Potential Assessment of a New Chelating Resin Used in Brine Treatment for Chlor-Alkali Plants.

Liliana Lazar, Loredana-Vasilica Postolache, Valeria Danilova, Dumitru Coman, Adrian Bele, Daniela Rusu, Mirela-Fernanda Zaltariov, Gabriela Lisa

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Article in Polymers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Liliana Lazar"Cristofor Simionescu" Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iași, 73 Prof. Dimitrie Mangeron Street, 700050 Iași, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-3337-4167
Loredana-Vasilica Postolache"Cristofor Simionescu" Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iași, 73 Prof. Dimitrie Mangeron Street, 700050 Iași, Romania.ORCID 0009-0002-4855-8719
Valeria Danilova"Cristofor Simionescu" Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iași, 73 Prof. Dimitrie Mangeron Street, 700050 Iași, Romania.
Dumitru Coman"Cristofor Simionescu" Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iași, 73 Prof. Dimitrie Mangeron Street, 700050 Iași, Romania.
Adrian Bele"Petru Poni" Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, 41A Grigore Ghica Vodă Alley, 700487 Iași, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-8602-5273
Daniela Rusu"Petru Poni" Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, 41A Grigore Ghica Vodă Alley, 700487 Iași, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-3560-4835
Mirela-Fernanda Zaltariov"Petru Poni" Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, 41A Grigore Ghica Vodă Alley, 700487 Iași, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-6692-0481
Gabriela Lisa"Cristofor Simionescu" Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iași, 73 Prof. Dimitrie Mangeron Street, 700050 Iași, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-4541-7446

Funding

National Research Grants of Romanian Alliance of Technical Universities (ARUT) Project number GNaC 2023-274/2024, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brine purification is an important process unit in chlor-alkali industrial plants for the production of sodium hydroxide, chlorine, and hydrogen. The membrane cell process requires ultrapure brine, which is obtained through mechanical filtration, chemical precipitation and fine polishing, and ion exchange using polymer resins. Temperature variations can lead to the degradation of the exchange properties of these resins, primarily causing a decrease in their exchange capacity, which negatively impacts the efficiency of the brine purification. After multiple ion exchange regeneration cycles, significant quantities of spent resins may be generated. These must be managed in accordance with resource efficiency and hazardous waste management to ensure the sustainability of the industrial process. In this paper, a comparative study is conducted to characterize the long-term stability of a new commercial chelating resin used in the industrial electrolysis process. The spectroscopic methods of physicochemical characterization included: scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDX) and attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR). The thermal behavior of the polymer resins was evaluated using the following thermogravimetric methods: thermogravimetry (TG), derivative thermogravimetry (DTG), and differential thermal analysis (DTA), while the moisture behavior was studied using dynamic vapor sorption (DVS) analysis. To assess the energy potential, the polymer resins were analyzed to determine their calorific value and overall energy content.

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brine treatmention exchange resinsLewatit® MonoPlus TP208solid wastespent resins

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PMID40508815
PMCPMC12157590

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