Effect of Reactive and Non-Reactive Additive Treatment on the Recovery of Phosphorus from Biogas Digestate
The annual phosphate (PO<sub>4</sub><sup>3−</sup>) utilization has increased, leading to a depletion of existing sources of phosphorus (P). To overcome this, digestate as a source to recover P is being investigated. Due to the abundance of nutrients, the digestate from an agr...
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| author | Naga Sai Tejaswi Uppuluri Konstantin Dinkler Xueling Ran Jianbin Guo Joachim Müller Hans Oechsner |
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| description | The annual phosphate (PO<sub>4</sub><sup>3−</sup>) utilization has increased, leading to a depletion of existing sources of phosphorus (P). To overcome this, digestate as a source to recover P is being investigated. Due to the abundance of nutrients, the digestate from an agricultural biogas plant is used as fertilizer for crops. The separation of solids and liquids from the digestate by a screw press is the simplest form of concentrating, therefore, recovering PO<sub>4</sub><sup>3−</sup>. This is the most commonly employed method in existing biogas plants. However, the separation is not very efficient as only 20–30% of P is recovered in the solid phase. The goal of this study is to increase the separation efficiency and recover more P into the solid phase, in order to improve the transportability. For this, separation trials at a laboratory scale were performed for five experimental groups, with biochar and straw flour as non-reactive additives and kieserite as a reactive additive. In addition, untreated digestate was studied as a control. The control and the treatment with biochar and straw flour were carried out at 25 °C, while the treatment with kieserite was performed at 25 °C and 50 °C. The separation trails were performed at treatment times of 0 h, 1 h, 2 h, 8 h, and 20 h. The results showed that the treatment with additives had a beneficial effect on the recovery of P. It was noted that kieserite treatment at 25 °C and 50 °C bound about 61% of the total P present in the digestate to the solid phase. A sequential extraction was performed to study the effect of additives on the recovery of different P species. The results concluded that, compared to biochar and straw flour, kieserite was efficient in recovering the non-labile fractions (NaOH-P and HCl-P) of P, which act as slow-release fertilizers. This study shows that the use of additives, especially kieserite, has a positive influence on recovering P from digestate, and further research to optimize the recovery process would be beneficial. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-509b64509a884af38e4d3ccbb269d9c62023-11-18T19:10:46ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732023-07-011614546410.3390/en16145464Effect of Reactive and Non-Reactive Additive Treatment on the Recovery of Phosphorus from Biogas DigestateNaga Sai Tejaswi Uppuluri0Konstantin Dinkler1Xueling Ran2Jianbin Guo3Joachim Müller4Hans Oechsner5State Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Bioenergy, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, GermanyState Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Bioenergy, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, GermanyKey Laboratory of Clean Utilization Technology for Renewable Energy, Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, ChinaKey Laboratory of Clean Utilization Technology for Renewable Energy, Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, ChinaInstitute of Agricultural Engineering, Tropics and Subtropics Group, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, GermanyState Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Bioenergy, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, GermanyThe annual phosphate (PO<sub>4</sub><sup>3−</sup>) utilization has increased, leading to a depletion of existing sources of phosphorus (P). To overcome this, digestate as a source to recover P is being investigated. Due to the abundance of nutrients, the digestate from an agricultural biogas plant is used as fertilizer for crops. The separation of solids and liquids from the digestate by a screw press is the simplest form of concentrating, therefore, recovering PO<sub>4</sub><sup>3−</sup>. This is the most commonly employed method in existing biogas plants. However, the separation is not very efficient as only 20–30% of P is recovered in the solid phase. The goal of this study is to increase the separation efficiency and recover more P into the solid phase, in order to improve the transportability. For this, separation trials at a laboratory scale were performed for five experimental groups, with biochar and straw flour as non-reactive additives and kieserite as a reactive additive. In addition, untreated digestate was studied as a control. The control and the treatment with biochar and straw flour were carried out at 25 °C, while the treatment with kieserite was performed at 25 °C and 50 °C. The separation trails were performed at treatment times of 0 h, 1 h, 2 h, 8 h, and 20 h. The results showed that the treatment with additives had a beneficial effect on the recovery of P. It was noted that kieserite treatment at 25 °C and 50 °C bound about 61% of the total P present in the digestate to the solid phase. A sequential extraction was performed to study the effect of additives on the recovery of different P species. The results concluded that, compared to biochar and straw flour, kieserite was efficient in recovering the non-labile fractions (NaOH-P and HCl-P) of P, which act as slow-release fertilizers. This study shows that the use of additives, especially kieserite, has a positive influence on recovering P from digestate, and further research to optimize the recovery process would be beneficial.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/14/5464digestatephosphorusadditivessolid phasetreatment timetemperature |
| spellingShingle | Naga Sai Tejaswi Uppuluri Konstantin Dinkler Xueling Ran Jianbin Guo Joachim Müller Hans Oechsner Effect of Reactive and Non-Reactive Additive Treatment on the Recovery of Phosphorus from Biogas Digestate Energies digestate phosphorus additives solid phase treatment time temperature |
| title | Effect of Reactive and Non-Reactive Additive Treatment on the Recovery of Phosphorus from Biogas Digestate |
| title_full | Effect of Reactive and Non-Reactive Additive Treatment on the Recovery of Phosphorus from Biogas Digestate |
| title_fullStr | Effect of Reactive and Non-Reactive Additive Treatment on the Recovery of Phosphorus from Biogas Digestate |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effect of Reactive and Non-Reactive Additive Treatment on the Recovery of Phosphorus from Biogas Digestate |
| title_short | Effect of Reactive and Non-Reactive Additive Treatment on the Recovery of Phosphorus from Biogas Digestate |
| title_sort | effect of reactive and non reactive additive treatment on the recovery of phosphorus from biogas digestate |
| topic | digestate phosphorus additives solid phase treatment time temperature |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/14/5464 |
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