Sludge precipitation

Sludge Precipitated mechanically or biologically separated solid matter produced during water and or sewage treatment or industrial processes. Such solids may be amenable to biological control. 

Fullerols, C6o(OH) (n = 24-26), can be synthesized directly by aerobic oxidation of a benzene solution of Qq using an aqueous solution of NaOH containing a few drops of BimNOH as the most efficient catalyst the deep violet benzene solution rapidly decolorizes and a brown sludge precipitates further reaction with more water over a period of 10 h gives a clear red-brown solution from which the... 

High-Level Waste Hydrated iron oxide (so-called "sludge") precipitates when NaOH is added to HLW and carries down almost all the plutonium and most of the other actinides in the HLW. 

Owing to the low limits for concentrations of chromium the proposed processes for wastewater treatment concentrate on the removal, for example, by flocculation and precipitation, but as a result chromium-containing sludge/precipitate or concentrates are obtained that need further treatment. 

Field Application of Emulsified Acids. Surfactants are used to form emulsified acid, where acid is the dispersed or internal phase. Pumping the acid in this form reduces acid contact with the rock. This enables the acid to form deep wormholes. It also reduces acid contact with the native crude. This will reduce sludge precipitation and associated problems [42]. 

On aging, many complex compounds precipitate from the concentrated acid to yield sludge. Examples of these compounds are (38)... 

The Zinc Phosphating Process. The zinc phosphating reaction involves acid attack on the substrate metal at microanodes and deposition of phosphate crystals at microcathodes (8). Liberation of hydrogen and the formation of phosphate sludge also occur. The equation for the dissolution of iron together with precipitation of dissolved iron as sludge in a nitrite accelerated system is as foUows ... 

Hydrogenis prevented from forming a passivating layer on the surface by an oxidant additive which also oxidizes ferrous iron to ferric iron. Ferric phosphate then precipitates as sludge away from the metal surface. Depending on bath parameters, tertiary iron phosphate may also deposit and ferrous iron can be incorporated into the crystal lattice. When other metals are included in the bath, these are also incorporated at distinct levels to generate species that can be written as Zn2Me(P0 2> where Me can represent Ni, Mn, Ca, Mg, or Fe. 

Solvent extraction—purification of wet-process phosphoric acid is based on preferential extraction of H PO by an organic solvent vs the cationic impurities present in the acid. Because selectivity of acid over anionic impurities is usually not sufficient, precipitation or evaporation steps are included in the purification process for removal. Cmde wet-process acid is typically concentrated and clarified prior to extraction to remove post-precipitated sludge and improve partition of the acid into the solvent. Concentration also partially eliminates fluoride by evaporation of HF and/or SiF. Chemical precipitation of sulfate (as Ba or Ca salts), fluorosiUcates (as Na salt), and arsenic (as sulfides) may also be used as a prepurification step preceding solvent extraction. 

Although most of the particulate in the off-gas from the furnace can be captured by the electrostatic precipitators before condensing the phosphoms, some carryover into the product is inevitable. This particulate is partly separated into the condenser water. The remainder reports to the phosphoms to yield either dirty product or a stable emulsion called phosphoms mud or sludge. Over many years a variety of approaches have been used to minimize the formation of sludge and to recover phosphoms product from the sludge. 

This PAG contains 1—2% sulfate as soluble calcium sulfate. Sulfate has been found to make PAG products unstable precipitate forms in less than one week at 50°G. Sulfate, however, has also been seen to increase PAG activity in water clarification and is thus intentionally added in one preparation (24). Precipitated calcium sulfate creates a sludge disposal problem. Typical Al content as AI2O2 of PAG products made from alum is 6 —8%. 

Iron Reduction. The reduction of nitrophenols with iron filings or turnings takes place in weakly acidic solution or suspension (30). The aminophenol formed is converted to the water soluble sodium aminopheno1 ate by adding sodium hydroxide before the iron-iron oxide sludge is separated from the reaction mixture (31). Adjustment of the solution pH leads to the precipitation of aminophenols, a procedure performed in the absence of air because the salts are very susceptible to oxidation in aqueous solution. 

Sludge-blanket clarifiers are difficult to start up because the first blanket must be estabUshed, and large-scale units require extensive excavation. Sizes range from 600 x 600 mm to 50 x 50 m. Precipitation and crystallization can be carried out in similar hopper-designed units, having overflow rates of 80 m/h or higher. 

In secondary wastewater treatment plants receiving silver thiosulfate complexes, microorganisms convert this complex predominately to silver sulfide and some metallic silver (see Wastes, INDUSTRIAL). These silver species are substantially removed from the treatment plant effluent at the settling step (47,48). Any silver entering municipal secondary treatment plants tends to bind quickly to sulfide ions present in the system and precipitate into the treatment plant sludge (49). Thus, silver discharged to secondary wastewater treatment plants or into natural waters is not present as the free silver ion but rather as a complexed or insoluble species. 

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