Recovery of phosphates from elemental phosphorus bearing wastes

Details Recovery of phosphates from elemental phosphorus bearing wastes Recovery of phosphates from elemental phosphorus bearing wastes

1993-03-10

1994-01-04

Langel, Wayne

Chemistry: fertilizers

Processes and products

Inorganic material

71 34, 71 40, 71 61, 423317, 423394, C05B 1104

Patent

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052756394

ABSTRACT:
A process for oxidizing aqueous elemental phosphorus containing residues (sludges) to produce orthophosphate containing slurries suitable for subsequent reaction with ammonia to produce nitrogen- and phosphorus-containing fertilizer products. It comprises reacting aqueous elemental phosphorus containing residues with certain special mixtures of concentrated nitric acid and sulfuric acid to effect the conversion of the elemental phosphorus content of the residues into mostly orthophosphoric acid and very little orthophosphorous acid with the relative ratios of orthophosphoric acid to orthophosphorous acid produced being dependent upon the weight ratio H.sub.2 SO.sub.4 :HNO.sub.3 employed in the processing. The reaction is conducted at the boiling point of the resulting aqueous reaction medium. Prior to the conversion to fertilizer products, the aqueous reaction product intermediate may be subjected to a solids separation step to remove insoluble salts of certain environmentally undesirable metals, such as, Pb, Cd, Ba, and Cr which are derived from phosphate rock via the dust component of phosphorus sludge.

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