sodium sulfate and lime doesn't react?
sodium sulfate and lime doesn't react?
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I have a 10g/l sodium sulfate solution
By adding lime ( water lime, milk, etc.) at various concentrations, nothing happends ..
why ?
Solutions ?
thank's a lot
By adding lime ( water lime, milk, etc.) at various concentrations, nothing happends ..
why ?
Solutions ?
thank's a lot





RE: sodium sulfate and lime doesn't react?
What quality is the water used ? Salts as NaCl affect the solubility of gypsum or anhydrite.
RE: sodium sulfate and lime doesn't react?
water quality is surface water:
Cl :30 ppm
hardness :250 ppm
M: 200ppm
did the test with demin: same result
does existing cristals affect cristallisation ?
RE: sodium sulfate and lime doesn't react?
Calcium sulfate solubility is 1290 mg/l at 32 Deg F. Calcium hydroxide solubility is 2390 mg/l. If you add enough lime, it will precipitate.
If you are trying to figure an economical method to precipitate calcium sulfate out of wastewater, you can forget about it, because it is not practical.
RE: sodium sulfate and lime doesn't react?
Was demineralized water used also for preparing the lime solution ?
RE: sodium sulfate and lime doesn't react?
By mixing two solutions one gets a more diluted one.
The solubility products are for CaSO4 and Ca(HO)2, respectively:
Thus, if the molar (ionic) concentrations don't reach the values as expressed by the constants it is possible that no precipitate forms.
RE: sodium sulfate and lime doesn't react?
it seems calcium solubility in Na2so4 solution never achieve precipitation concentration or CaSO4 is soluble in such Na2SO4 solution ??
RE: sodium sulfate and lime doesn't react?
RE: sodium sulfate and lime doesn't react?
Calcium hydroxide at, say, 20oC is less soluble than anhydrite. When adding a diluted lime (albeit saturated) solution to the given solution of sodium sulfate, one dilutes even more the sulfate and the hydroxide.
As long as the products of the ionic concentrations do not reach the solubility products one cannot get a precipitate.
Have you tried a richer solution of sodium sulfate ?
RE: sodium sulfate and lime doesn't react?
If the sodium sulfate solution is a given unchanging factor, then try the precipitation with a richer calcium chloride solution.
RE: sodium sulfate and lime doesn't react?
If these are limestone products, you should get Calcium sulfate solubility is 1290 mg/l at 32 Deg F. Calcium hydroxide solubility is 2390 mg/l. If you add enough lime, it will precipitate.
Have you tried just using hydrated lime?
Also, as 25362 suggested, adding calcium chloride will provide the calcium if your solution is deficient in calcium.
RE: sodium sulfate and lime doesn't react?
The solubility of calcium hydroxide drops at higher temperatures. Thus at 20-30oC it is even less soluble than calcium sulfate. From Lange's Handbook of Chemistry the solubilities in grams per 100 grams of water are:
oC 0 10 20 30
hydroxide 0.189 0.182 0.173 0.160
CaSO4.2H2O 0.223 0.244 0.255 0.264
CaSO4 (est.) 0.176 0.193 0.202 0.209
The values for CaSO4 were estimated by pro-rating the molecular weights.
The solubility products at 25oC, by CRC are:
calcium hydroxide: 5.02*10-6
calcium sulfate: 4.93*10-5
RE: sodium sulfate and lime doesn't react?
I'd like to emphasize the diverse ion effect, well known to chemists performing gravimetric analyses.
This effect is, in fact, a reduction in ion concentration (ie, reduced activity) due to the presence of other ions that shield the dissociated species of interest, in this case: SO42-, Ca2+.
The published values of standard solubility products Kspo hold for "pure" water, not for the solubility product in the presence of other ions.
The standard value is divided by the product of the activities (generally -but not necessarily- lower than one) to obtain an increased Ksp.
See
htp://www.iug
Lately I found a "new" value for Kspo for calcium sulfate at 25oC of 1.9 × 10-4. This value should be divided by the product of the activity coefficients aCa++ and aSO4= to obtain the correct Ksp.
As an example, the solubility of barium sulfate is almost tripled in the presence of 0.1 M NaNO3. It appears that the increase in solubility is greater with precipitates containing multiply charged ions.