Study on Properties of Iron-Rich Sludge in Pulp and Paper Industry and Its Recycling as Sludge Conditioning Agent[J]. 2016, 50(9): 43-48.
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Study on Properties of Iron-Rich Sludge in Pulp and Paper Industry and Its Recycling as Sludge Conditioning Agent[J]. 2016, 50(9): 43-48.DOI: 10.7652/xjtuxb201609007.
Study on Properties of Iron-Rich Sludge in Pulp and Paper Industry and Its Recycling as Sludge Conditioning Agent
Iron-rich sludge produced from the Fenton oxidation process of pulp and paper mill wastewater contains high content of iron
leading to the dewatering difficulty of the mixed sludge. To solve this problem and reuse the iron-rich sludge
an innovative approach
acidifing the iron-rich sludge to leach out Fe
3+
as a sludge conditioning agent
was proposed in this study. The composition of iron-rich sludge was analyzed by elemental analyzer
X-ray fluorescence spectrometry(XRF)
and inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry(ICP-OES). The c
hemical phase and valence of iron were determined by X-ray diffraction(XRD)and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS). The acidification conditions were optimized according to the iron leaching rate and acid consumption. The performance of the chemical conditioning agent obtained by this approach was estimated according to the decrease of sludge specific resistance
and was compared with the conditioning performance of FeCl
3
. The results indicate that the iron content is 39.32% in the iron-rich sludge from a pulp and paper mill
and ferrihydrite is the main form of ferric iron. The optimal condition for acidification at room temperature is that the mass ratio of sulfuric acid to dry sludge is 0.91 g/g and the reaction time is 180 min. Under the optimal condition
57.24% of the iron in the sludge can be leached into the solution. When the dosage of conditioning agents made from iron-rich sludge reaches 3.45%(by the mass of Fe)of dry sludge
the specific resistance of excess sludge can be reduced to 17.90% of the initial value
which is quite close to the conditioning performance of FeCl
3
at the same dosage. The results show that this proposed method is a feasible process for the recycling of the iron-rich sludge from pulp and paper mills.
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