Synergy of phosphate recovery from sludge-incinerated ash and coagulant production by desalinated brine

Xiangyang Wang; Chen Shi; Xiaodi Hao; Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht; Yuanyuan Wu

doi:10.1016/j.watres.2023.119658

Synergy of phosphate recovery from sludge-incinerated ash and coagulant production by desalinated brine

Xiangyang Wang, Chen Shi, Xiaodi Hao^*, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, Yuanyuan Wu

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Wet-chemical approach is widely applied for phosphate recovery from incinerated ash of waste activated sludge (WAS), along with metals removed/recovered. The high contents of both aluminum (Al) and iron (Fe) in WAS-incinerated ash should be suitable for producing coagulants with some waste anions like Cl⁻ and SO₄²⁻ With acid (HCl) leaching and metals’ removing, approximately 88 wt% of phosphorus (P) in the ash could be recovered as hydroxylapatite (HAP: Ca₅(PO₄)₃OH); Fe³⁺ in the acidic leachate could be selectively removed/recovered by extraction with an organic solvent of tributyl phosphate (TBP), and thus a FeCl₃-based coagulant could be synthesized by stripping the raffinate with the original brine (containing abundant Cl⁻ and SO₄²⁻). Furthermore, a liquid poly-aluminum chloride (PAC)-based coagulant could also be synthesized with Al³⁺ removed from the ash and the brine, which behaved almost the same in the coagulation performance as a commercial coagulant on both phosphate and turbidity removals. Both P-recovery from the ash and coagulant production associated with the brine would enlarge the markets of both ‘blue’ phosphate and ‘green’ coagulants.

Original language	English
Article number	119658
Number of pages	11
Journal	Water Research
Volume	231
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2023.119658
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Ash
Coagulants
Incineration
Metals’ recovery
Phosphorus recovery
Waste activated sludge (WAS)

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