Objective
Practical demonstration of sulfur recovery from tannery waste water. The performance of the wastewater treatment/recovery plant is aimed at 60% COD elimination and 90% total-S elimination (70% converted into elementary sulfur) at a loading rate of 5 kg COD/m{3}d.
In the chrome tanning industry large amounts of sulfate and sulfide are used and discharged via the waste water, causing corrosion of sewers and water pollution. In the project a wastewater treatment/recovery system will be demonstrated at the site of a tannery. The system is based on anaerobic biological conversion of the organic material in the waste water into biogas (which can be used as a fuel) and converison of all sulfur compounds via sulfide into elementary sulfur (which can be reused in the chemical industry). The system requires low amounts of chemicals and energy. In many other industries with concentrated wastewater streams anaerobic digestion has shown to be economically attractive. However, the high sulfate concentration in tannery wastewater has retarded the development of this treatment technology (the produced sulfide inhibits the process). In the new system sulfide is continuously removed from the reactor liquid and converted to sulfur in separate reactors. The (nonbiological) method of sulfur recovery is new. Spin-off to other polluting sectors is possible).
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2600 GB DELFT
Netherlands
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