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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 210, Issue -, Pages 33-44Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2012.08.036
Keywords
Chemical precipitation; Response surface optimization; Struvite recovery; Recycling; Zero emission
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- Department of Science and Technology, Government of India under DST-FIST program
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Experimental investigations were carried out on a new membrane-integrated hybrid treatment scheme for removal of hazardous cyanide and phenol from coke wastewater and chemical precipitation of ammonia as a value-added struvite by-product. Fenton's pre-treatment with response surface optimization ensured very effective removal of cyanide and phenol facilitating subsequent chemical precipitation of over 98% ammonia as pure struvite fertilizer. Integration of micro and nano-membrane filtration with these chemical treatment units raised water quality to reusable level. Largely fouling-free flat sheet cross flow membrane modules could remove over 96-98% of the chemical contaminants while still yielding a high flux of 116 l/h/sq m of the membrane surface at a transmembrane pressure of only 15-16 bars. The new integrated scheme embracing the concept of zero emission and value addition is a novel approach in continuous treatment of industrial wastewater for recycling. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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