Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.13044/j.sdewes.d8.0349
Pilot Scale Experiments for Ammonium Recovery from Sludge Liquor at a Municipal Waste Water Treatment Plant
Jan Lubensky
; Chair of Process Technology and Industrial Environmental Protection, Montanuniversität Leoben, Franz-Josef-Straße 18, 8700 Leoben, Austria
Markus Ellersdorfer
; Chair of Process Technology and Industrial Environmental Protection, Montanuniversität Leoben, Franz-Josef-Straße 18, 8700 Leoben, Austria
Abstract
The recovery of ammonium from sludge liquor using the ion exchanger loop stripping process was studied at a pilot scale plant at a municipal waste water treatment plant. The ion exchanger loop stripping process combines ion exchange and air stripping in a hybrid process and works with fixed bed columns containing natural zeolite (mainly clinoptilolite), which is alternately loaded and regenerated. The sodium hydroxide regeneration solution is simultaneously air stripped. Ammonium is recovered in a subsequent acid scrubber as concentrated ammonium sulfate solution, which is a suitable reducing agent for industrial off-gas treatment [nitrogen oxide (NOx) removal]. Pilot scale experiments demonstrated the technical feasibility of the process. The zeolite ion exchange capacity was stable over 62 loading and regeneration cycles. Ammonium removal rates of 69-94% were achieved in consecutive loading and regeneration cycles, when sludge liquor with a treatment capacity of 500 L h−1 and typical input concentrations from 500-1,500 mg NH4 + L−1 was treated.
Keywords
Ion exchanger loop stripping process; Natural zeolite; Industrial nitrogen oxide removal agent; Nitrogen recovery.
Hrčak ID:
254740
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Publication date:
30.6.2021.
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