2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Development of Phosphorus recovery technology from organic wastes with subcritical water
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18510082
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Environmental technology/Environmental materials
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| Research Institution | Ube National College of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKEUCHI Masami Ube National College of Technology, Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, professor (30043889)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SADAAKI Murakami Ube National College of Technology, Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, professor (00035065)
IMAI Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi University, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, professor (20263791)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2007
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| Keywords | environmental technology / resouce recovery of wastes / recovery of phosphorus / magnesium ammonium phosphate / hydroxy apatite / subcritical water |
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| Research Abstract |
1. Research object
Our group has been developing the resource recovery technology from the organic wastes. Phosphorus, P, of the solid wastes is dissolved into the sub-critical water, and collected with the MAP, magnesium ammonium phosphate, or HAP, hydroxy apatite, reaction. In this study, we determined the optimum operating parameters for the above P recovery process, and the practical process was designed and evaluated.
2. Research results
(1) The optimum temperature of the sub-critical water was optimized to dissolve P of the excess sludge from the activated sludge process into which the artificial sewage was applied.
(2) The pHs and the molar ratios of Mg and Ca salt added were optimized, respectively, to collect P from the dissolved sludge.
(3) A practical process of bench scale to recovery P of the excess sludge was designed and set up.
(4) The practical process was operated continuously, P was recovered from the sewage sludge, and the optimum operation conditions for the P recovery with the MAP and HAP methods were determined, respectively.
(5) The operating manual of the P recovery process was written. The P recovery efficiency and the cost performance of the process were evaluated, and it came to the conclusion that the commercialization of this technology is possible. 3. Prospect In order to commercialize the process, we will investigate the removal of the obstacles such as sands, metals, plastics, etc., in sewage sludge, and the refining method of the collected MAP and HAP salts.
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