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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
Volume 20, Issue 1-2, Pages 87-100Publisher
INDERSCIENCE ENTERPRISES LTD
DOI: 10.1504/IJETM.2017.086463
Keywords
poultry manure; struvite precipitation; anaerobic digestion; ammonia accumulation
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- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) Alternative Fuels Program
- Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
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To improve poultry waste management, the feasibility of enabling efficient anaerobic digestion of poultry manure through reduction of ammonia accumulation is examined. This study employs struvite precipitation to control ammonia accumulation, and focuses on the efficacy of ammonia removal under neutral reaction conditions (pH = 7). The impacts of phosphate and magnesium additives, pH, temperature and the N:Mg:P molar ratio are quantified. Magnesium chloride (MgCl2 center dot 6H(2)O) and monopotassium phosphate (KH2PO4) are shown to be the most efficient combination of additives for total ammoniacal nitrogen (TAN) reduction of poultry manure leachate under neutral reaction conditions (pH = 7), demonstrating a TAN reduction of 90.3%. Modification of molar ratios (NH4:Mg:PO4) evidenced no significant benefit with regard to TAN reduction. However, increasing the fraction of supplementary magnesium resulted in a statistically significant (p < 0.05) decrease in phosphate concentration within the leachate. This study demonstrates the advantages of struvite precipitation, as a method of ammonia control, to improve anaerobic digestion and hence management of poultry manure. Although an effective means of TAN control, struvite precipitation from poultry manure is an ineffective means of obtaining pure struvite due to the formation of co-precipitates.
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