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Trends of phosphorus recovery technology from sewage sludge ash by wet chemical method

습식 화학적 방법에 의한 하수 슬러지 소각재에서의 인 회수 기술동향

  • Lee, Min-Su (Department of Environmental Science and Biotechnology & Institute of Energy and Environment, Hallym University) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Jin (Department of Environmental Science and Biotechnology & Institute of Energy and Environment, Hallym University)
  • 이민수 (한림대학교 환경생명공학과 및 에너지환경연구소) ;
  • 김동진 (한림대학교 환경생명공학과 및 에너지환경연구소)
  • Received : 2017.12.05
  • Accepted : 2018.03.20
  • Published : 2018.04.16
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Abstract

Phosphorus (P) is a limited, essential, and irreplaceable nutrient for the biological activity of all the living organisms. Sewage sludge ash (SSA) is one of the most important secondary P resources due to its high P content. The SSA has been intensively investigated to recover P by wet chemicals (acid or alkali). Even though $H_2SO_4$ was mainly used to extract P because of its low cost and accessibility, the formation of $CaSO_4$ (gypsum) hinders its use. Heavy metals in the SSA also cause a significant problem in P recovery since fertilizer needs to meet government standards for human health. Therefore, P recovery process with selective heavy metal removal needs to be developed. In this paper some of the most advanced P recovery processes have been introduced and discussed their technical characteristics. The results showed that further research is needed to identify the chemical mechanisms of P transformation in the recovery process and to increase P recovery efficiency and the yields.

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