Re-visiting the Phostrip process to recover phosphorus from municipal wastewater
dc.contributor.author | Salehi, S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Cheng, K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Heitz, Anna | |
dc.contributor.author | Ginige, M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-14T06:08:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-05-14T06:08:46Z | |
dc.date.created | 2018-05-13T00:31:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Salehi, S. and Cheng, K. and Heitz, A. and Ginige, M. 2018. Re-visiting the Phostrip process to recover phosphorus from municipal wastewater. Chemical Engineering Journal. 343: pp. 390-398. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/66650 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.cej.2018.02.074 | |
dc.description.abstract |
This study examined an innovative approach to make use of the Phostrip process to recover phosphorus (P) from municipal wastewater. Returned activated sludge (RAS) from a municipal wastewater treatment plant was systematically studied to examine P release kinetics of RAS in a recovery stream that contained high concentrations of phosphate (PO 4 3- -P). Findings suggested that the specific P release rate in RAS declined with increasing concentration of PO 4 3- -P in the recovery stream. However, there was a strong positive linear correlation between acetate consumed and P released by the RAS (Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient [r = 0.98, n = 45, p < 0.005]). The data also suggest that acetate concentration in the recovery stream was not a factor in the observed reduction of specific P release rate with increasing PO 4 3- -P in the recovery stream. When P release rates (poly-P hydrolysis rate) at different initial P concentrations were modelled using a modified Michaelis-Menten equation, a good fit was achieved between the experimental and the modelled data. According to the model, the maximum specific P release rate (18 mg-P/g-MLSS.h) halved when PO 4 3- -P concentration in the recovery stream reached approximately 83 mg-P/L. Additionally, the RAS demonstrated a P release /C acetate uptake molar ratio of approximately 0.5. An application of the derived P release kinetics into an innovative side stream process configuration showed that a Phostrip tank with a small footprint (9 m 3 ) is sufficient to facilitate P recovery from a wastewater treatment plant that receives 61 ML/d of influent. | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV | |
dc.title | Re-visiting the Phostrip process to recover phosphorus from municipal wastewater | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dcterms.source.volume | 343 | |
dcterms.source.startPage | 390 | |
dcterms.source.endPage | 398 | |
dcterms.source.issn | 1385-8947 | |
dcterms.source.title | Chemical Engineering Journal | |
curtin.department | School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (CME) | |
curtin.accessStatus | Fulltext not available |
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