Study on the mechanism of copper-ammonia complex decomposition in struvite formation process and enhanced ammonia and copper removal

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• 作者：Cong Peng ; Liyuan Chai ; Chongjian Tang ; ^{chjtang@csu.edu.cn} ; Xiaobo Min ; Yuxia Song ; Chengshan Duan ; Cheng Yu
• 关键词：Copper&ndash ; ammonia complex ; Ammonia removal ; Copper hydroxide ; Co-precipitation ; Struvite formation ; Heavy-metal-containing wastewater
• 刊名：Journal of Environmental Sciences
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：51
• 期：Complete
• 页码：222-233
• 全文大小：1847 K
• 卷排序：51

文摘

Heavy metals and ammonia are difficult to remove from wastewater, as they easily combine into refractory complexes. The struvite formation method (SFM) was applied for the complex decomposition and simultaneous removal of heavy metal and ammonia. The results indicated that ammonia deprivation by SFM was the key factor leading to the decomposition of the copper–ammonia complex ion. Ammonia was separated from solution as crystalline struvite, and the copper mainly co-precipitated as copper hydroxide together with struvite. Hydrogen bonding and electrostatic attraction were considered to be the main surface interactions between struvite and copper hydroxide. Hydrogen bonding was concluded to be the key factor leading to the co-precipitation. In addition, incorporation of copper ions into the struvite crystal also occurred during the treatment process.