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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2022.107768
Keywords
Urine stabilization; Urea hydrolysis inhibition; Freeze separation; Peracetic acid; Nitrogen recovery
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The combination of using peracetic acid as an oxidizing agent and the progressive freeze concentration process proved to be effective in inhibiting urea hydrolysis and recovering nitrogen in synthetic urine. The experimental results showed that this method can stabilize urea in concentrated synthetic urine and is suitable for urine concentration in source separation systems.
Peracetic acid (PAA) was used as an inhibitor to prevent urea hydrolysis in the recovery and concentration of nitrogen in a synthetic urine. Twenty mg/L of PAA was found to be effective in inhibiting urea hydrolysis for seven days before it was concentrated by the progressive freeze concentration (PFC) process. Ammonia concentration, total nitrogen (TN), pH, and electrical conductivity (EC) were monitored. The PFC process, operating with a coolant temperature of -12 ?degrees C and a stabilized synthetic urine temperature of 23 degrees C, reduced the volume of the stabilized synthetic urine by approximately 80% (concentration factor of 5.1) and concentrated the TN approximately 21,000 mg/L with ammonia concentration of approximately 50 mg/L-N. Seven days after the PFC treatment, the urea in the concentrated synthetic urine continued to be fairly stable although addition of PAA may be needed to stabilize the concentrated solution further. The experimental results showed that a combination of using PAA as an oxidizing agent and the PFC process can be an effective and suitable process for source separation systems to concentrate urine to recover nitrogen and produce liquid fertilizer.
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