RESEARCH PROGRESS ON SEPARATION AND RECOVERY OF ALUMINUM COAGULANTS FROM WASTEWATER SLUDGE IN THE CONTEXT OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY

FAN Yu; HUA Yu; YANG Donghai; DAI Xiaohu

doi:10.13205/j.hjgc.202309026

Volume 41 Issue 9

Sep. 2023

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FAN Yu, HUA Yu, YANG Donghai, DAI Xiaohu. RESEARCH PROGRESS ON SEPARATION AND RECOVERY OF ALUMINUM COAGULANTS FROM WASTEWATER SLUDGE IN THE CONTEXT OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING , 2023, 41(9): 210-220. doi: 10.13205/j.hjgc.202309026

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FAN Yu, HUA Yu, YANG Donghai, DAI Xiaohu. RESEARCH PROGRESS ON SEPARATION AND RECOVERY OF ALUMINUM COAGULANTS FROM WASTEWATER SLUDGE IN THE CONTEXT OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING , 2023, 41(9): 210-220. doi: 10.13205/j.hjgc.202309026

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RESEARCH PROGRESS ON SEPARATION AND RECOVERY OF ALUMINUM COAGULANTS FROM WASTEWATER SLUDGE IN THE CONTEXT OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY

doi: 10.13205/j.hjgc.202309026

State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

Received Date: 2023-07-23
Available Online: 2023-11-15

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Sludge resource utilization is an important measure in China to solve resource and environmental problems and reduce pollution and carbon. Recovering and recycling aluminum salt components in sludge is an effective way to promote the green development of wastewater treatment plants. This article introduced the material flow and reaction mechanism of aluminum coagulants; based on the analysis of the occurrence form of aluminum salts in sludge, the related technologies and research status of aluminum recovery in sludge were comprehensively reviewed, with the technical scheme of release-separation-reuse of aluminum salts as the core, and its impacts on phosphorus recovery were also discussed. A variety of separation technologies of aluminum salts, which aimed to overcome the obstacles of phosphorus and heavy metals co-dissolving under acidic condition, were emphatically analyzed, including sequential precipitation, ion exchange resin, liquid-liquid extraction, sulfide precipitation, Donnan membrane, and electrodialysis process. A joint recovery process for aluminum salts and phosphorus was constructed according to the above analysis. In view of the current situation and problems of aluminum salts recovery in sludge, potential research directions, including improving aluminum salts recovery efficiency, analyzing the full chain economic benefits, and evaluating the effectiveness of aluminum salts coagulant recycling were proposed, aiming to promote the construction of sewage and sludge treatment systems with higher resource utilization levels and better accordance with the circular economy context.
- wastewater sludge,
- aluminum salts recovery,
- phosphorus recovery,
- resource utilization,
- technology selection

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