Print Email Facebook Twitter Efficient formation of vivianite without anaerobic digester Title Efficient formation of vivianite without anaerobic digester: Study in excess activated sludge Author Prot, T.J.F. (TU Delft BT/Environmental Biotechnology; Wetsus, Centre for Sustainable Water Technology) Pannekoek, W. (Waterschapsbedrijf Limburg, Roermond) Belloni, C. (TU Delft RST/Fundamental Aspects of Materials and Energy; Wetsus, Centre for Sustainable Water Technology) Dugulan, A.I. (TU Delft RID/TS/Instrumenten groep) Hendrikx, R.W.A. (TU Delft Team Amarante Bottger) Korving, L. (Wetsus, Centre for Sustainable Water Technology) van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (TU Delft BT/Environmental Biotechnology) Date 2022 Abstract It was recently discovered that vivianite (Fe3(PO4)2.8H2O) could be magnetically extracted from digested activated sludge which opened a new route for phosphorus recovery (Wijdeveld et al. 2022). While its formation in digested sludge is regularly reported, it is not yet studied for fresh, undigested activated sludge. In particular, the extent to which vivianite could form during sludge storage is missing. The current research showed that iron reduction was completed after 2–4 days of anaerobic storage, and the vivianite appeared to form quickly from the pool of reduced iron made available. After sludge thickening at the wastewater treatment plant (30 h retention time), around 11% of the iron was vivianite. With subsequent 1–3 days of anaerobic storage, this fraction increased to 50–55%. After this storage, almost all the vivianite that could potentially form did form. This research concluded that efficient vivianite formation can be achieved without a sludge digester, showing phosphorus recovery potential from undigested sludge via vivianite recovery. Besides, the recovery of vivianite from undigested sludge presents advantages like the reduction of the sludge to dispose of and mitigation of the vivianite scaling formation. Subject Iron phosphateMagnetic recoveryMössbauer spectroscopyPhosphorus recoveryWWTPXRD To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:360c549d-fd75-441e-aa9c-1261dea10266 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2022.107473 Source Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 10 (3) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2022 T.J.F. Prot, W. Pannekoek, C. Belloni, A.I. Dugulan, R.W.A. Hendrikx, L. Korving, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht Files PDF 1_s2.0_S2213343722003463_main.pdf 2.07 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:360c549d-fd75-441e-aa9c-1261dea10266/datastream/OBJ/view