Abstract
AbstractMunicipal wastewater is an interesting source of phosphorus and several processes for the recovery of phosphorus from this source have been described. These processes yield magnesium ammonium phosphate (MAP), a valuable fertilizer. In these processes, pH shifts and the addition of chemicals are used to influence the species distribution in the solution such as to finally obtain the desired product and to prevent the co-precipitation of salts of heavy metal ions. Elucidating these species distributions experimentally is a challenging and cumbersome task. Therefore, in the present work, a thermodynamic model was developed that can be used for predicting the species distributions in the various steps of the recovery process. The model combines the extended Debye-Hückel equation for the prediction of activity coefficients with dissociation constants and solubility product data from the literature and contains no parameters that need to be adjusted to process data. The model was successfully tested by comparison to experimental data for the Stuttgart process from the literature and used for analyzing the different process steps. Furthermore, it was demonstrated how the model can be used for optimizing the process.
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Funder
ksb stiftung
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Waste Management and Disposal,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Environmental Engineering
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