Ammonia removal from low-strength municipal wastewater by powdered resin combined with simultaneous recovery as struvite

• 作者: Kuo Fang Fei Peng Hui Gong Huanzhen Zhang Kaijun Wang
• 来源期刊: 环境科学与工程前沿
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（1）
• 所属期刊栏目: RESEARCH ARTICLE
• 页码范围: 121-130
• 页数: 10页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Low-strength municipal wastewater is considered to be a recoverable nutrient resource with economic and environmental benefits.Thus,various technologies for nutrient removal and recovery have been developed.In this paper,powdered ion exchange resin was employed for ammonia removal and recovery from imitated low-strength municipal wastewater.The effects of various working conditions (powdered resin dosage,initial concentration,and pH value) were studied in batch experiments to investigate the feasibility of the approach and to achieve performance optimization.The maximum adsorption capacity determined by the Langmuir model was 44.39 mg/g which is comparable to traditional ion exchange resin.Further,the effects of co-existmg cations (Ca2+,M2+g,K+) were studied.Based on the above experiments,recovery of ammonia as struvite was successfully achieved by a proposed two-stage crystallization process coupled with a powdered resin ion exchange process.Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffractometry (XRD) results revealed that struvite crystals were successfully gained in alkaline conditions (pH =10).This research demonstrates that a powdered resin and two-stage crystallization process provide an innovative and promising means for highly efficient and easy recovery from low-strength municipal wastewater.