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Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering >> 2013, Volume 7, Issue 1 doi: 10.1007/s11705-013-1312-y

Filtration ability of hollow fiber membrane for production of magnesium ammonium phosphate crystals by reaction crystallization

Applied Chemistry, Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan

Available online: 2013-03-05

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Abstract

Relationship between magnesium ammonium phosphate (MAP) crystal properties and the filtration ability of hollow fiber membrane (HFM) were investigated. Phosphorus recovery process by crystallization has a problem that it produces a large amount of fine crystals. So improvement of the crystallization process by combining with filtration was discussed. MAP crystals were obtained by batch reaction crystallization and the filtration characteristics were investigated. The filtration was evaluated by the specific filtration resistance ( ) on HFM. Filtered slurry was prepared with each suspension density and crystal size distribution. The solution was filtered at constant pressure of 0.02 MPa and the filtration time on each filtrated volume was recorded. As a result, decreases exponentially with suspension density increasing from 0.25 g/L to 0.5 g/L and decreases moderately with suspension density increasing from 0.5 g/L to 1.5 g/L. of large crystals decreases exponentially at less suspension density than of small crystals does. Also, increases as the ratio of the fractured crystals increases.

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