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

doi:10.1007/s11783-020-1300-7

Front. Environ. Sci. Eng.

2021, Vol. 15

Issue (1) : 8 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-020-1300-7

RESEARCH ARTICLE

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

Kuo Fang¹, Fei Peng^1,², Hui Gong¹(

), Huanzhen Zhang², Kaijun Wang¹(

)

¹. State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
². School of Water Resources & Environment, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China

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Abstract

• Powdered resin was employed for ammonia recovery from municipal wastewater.

• Powdered resin achievedefficient ammonia removal under various working conditions.

• Co-existing cations indicated competitive adsorption of ammonia.

• Ammonia was recoveredby two-stage crystallization coupled with ion exchange.

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-existing cations (Ca²⁺, Mg²⁺, 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.

Keywords Ammonia removal and recovery Powdered resin Crystallization process Struvite Co-existing cations

Corresponding Author(s): Hui Gong,Kaijun Wang

Issue Date: 06 August 2020

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Kuo Fang,Fei Peng,Hui Gong, et al. Ammonia removal from low-strength municipal wastewater by powdered resin combined with simultaneous recovery as struvite[J]. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng., 2021, 15(1): 8.

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Tab.1 Adsorption solutions tested in batch experiments with different co-existing cations

Fig.1 Schematic of the proposed two-stage crystallization process combined with a powdered resin ion exchange process for nutrient recovery.

Fig.2 Final ammonia concentration and removal efficiency under different working conditions: (a) powdered resin dosage; (b) initial ammonia concentration; (c) pH value. The error bars represent standard deviation (n = 3).

Fig.3 Adsorption isotherm and ion exchange potential of powdered resin: (a) Experimental data depicting ammonia adsorption by powdered resin from aqueous solution fitted to a Langmuir model. (b)Removal efficiency and accumulated adsorption capacity of powdered resin with continuous adsorption process. The error bars represent standard deviation (n = 3).

Fig.4 Effects of co-existing cations on adsorption capacity (batch A1 to H1 on the right side and batch A2 to H2 on the left side). The error bars indicate standard deviation (n = 3).

Fig.5 Two-stage crystallization combined with powdered resin for recovery of ammonia, calcium and magnesium: (a) Removal efficiency of different cations in first-stage crystallization. The error bars indicate standard deviation (n = 3). (b) Temporal changes in concentrations of different ions in the ion exchange process after first-stage crystallization.

Fig.6 SEM images of the obtained crystals (a) pH= 8; (b) pH= 9; (c) pH= 10; (d) XRD patterns of the obtained crystals.

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