ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

Tracking CO2-mineralisation to magnesite and eco-cements

Abstract: Magnesite is essential to fertilizer, paper, glass, construction; most recently as eco-cement, at Mt-Gt scales. Mg2+ sources are plentiful recoverable via mineral carbonation of Mg-silicate, whose deposits are @ 10^5 Gt with magnesite being the most stable Mg-carbonate under all conditions. Yet, MgCO3-mineralisation is retarded by Mg-dehydration. Industrially magnesite is produced with high-T/P condition, unlike ambient formation in nature, accelerated by impurities in ground water (HS-, SiO4-2, RCOO-), as-yet irreproducible in the lab. Geochemical evidence indicates these electrolyte solutions catalysing magnesite formation in its 3 principal steps: 1.Mg-dehydration, 2. Nucleation, 3. growth. We propose to undertake the 1st ever neutron measurements of in-situ Mg-carbonation in industrially relevant slurries. Herein, NCS will probe changing bonding regime throughout magnesite formation

Principal Investigator: Dr Gregory Chasse
Experimenter: Mr Fu Song
Experimenter: Dr Kun Tian
Local Contact: Professor Giovanni Romanelli
Experimenter: Dr Devis Di Tommaso
Experimenter: Dr Dimitrios Toroz
Experimenter: Dr Robert Copcutt
Experimenter: Dr Antony Cox
Experimenter: Mr Michael Evans
Experimenter: Mr Nicolas Andres Flores Gonzalez
Experimenter: Mr Ross McFadzean

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB2010426

ISIS Experiment Number: RB2010426

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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