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2014

Coprecipitation

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The Interaction Between Arsenic And Struvite During Coprecipitation And Adsorption Processes, Ning Ma Oct 2014

The Interaction Between Arsenic And Struvite During Coprecipitation And Adsorption Processes, Ning Ma

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The formation of struvite, MgNH4PO4*6H2O (MAP), from wastes is one of the methods that can be used to recover P from wastes efficiently. However, since there are usually toxic components in the wastes, like arsenic (As), the possibility of having toxic contaminants in MAP is a big concern. So, the interaction between As and MAP during coprecipitation (CPT) and adsorption (ADS) processes were studied at pH 8-11. MAP precipitated without As at pH 8-11 was also characterized.

During CPT process, the MAP was precipitated from a MgCl2-(NH4)2HPO4-NaCl-H2O system spiked with As at an initial pH (pHi) of 8-11. The batch …