Przemysl Chemiczny, Vol.99, No.5, 761-766, 2020
Recovery of phosphates(V) from real wastewaters from phosphorus mineral fertilizers industry. Process kinetics
Kinetic parameters describing continuous reaction crystallization of struvite from real P mineral fertilizers industry wastewaters (IWW) were detd. Test results were compared with kinetic data of struvite manufactured from real cattle liq. manure (CLM) and from a soln. without any impurities (WI). Kinetic model for ideal mixed suspension, mixed product removal (MSMPR) crystallizer was used assuming dependence of crystal growth rate on its size (Rojkowski exponential size-dependent growth). The impurities present in the wastewaters were a reason for pptn. of solid product of distantly different quality. The mean size of struvite crystals varied from 36.8 mu m (IWW) to 48.5 mu m (WI). Homogeneity within their populations, quantified by the coeff. of variation CV, varied from satisfactory (CV 64.6%, WI) to unfavorable (CV 98.8%, CLM) values. A rise of impurities concn. in a feed resulted in an increase of nucleation rate from 6.27.10(11)1(s.m(3)) ( WI) to 2.01.10(15) 1/(s.m(3)) (IWW). Linear growth rate of struvite crystals varied from 6.92.10(-9) m/s to 4.58.10(-9) m/s, resp.