Journal of Northeastern University(Natural Science) ›› 2022, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (5): 748-754.DOI: 10.12068/j.issn.1005-3026.2022.05.020

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Mechanism of Combustible Gas Production in Aluminum Alloy Sludge

LI Yu-xin, XU Kai-li, WANG Ben, GENG Li-yan   

  1. School of Resources & Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.
  • Revised:2021-08-14 Accepted:2021-08-14 Published:2022-06-20
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Abstract: Based on the gas production experiment of sludge quantity, standing time and before and after impurity removal, combined with SEM, particle size analysis, element analysis and microbial community analysis, the composition and law of gas production were analyzed to study gas production mechanism. The experimental results show that the gas produced by the sludge is composed of H2, CO2 and a small amount of CH4. The gas production is proportional to the amount of sludge and the standing time. The mechanism of gas production is that fermentation and hydrolysis bacteria produce H2 and CO2 in the metabolic process, and produce acidic substances which can corrode the protective film on the surface of aluminum alloy and form holes. Moisture enters the interior of particles along the holes and reacts with the alloy to produce hydrogen. H2 and CO2 provide metabolic materials for Methane archaea in sludge to produce CH4.

Key words: microorganism; hydrogen; methane; carbon dioxide; aluminum alloy; sludge

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