1. Nitrogen recovery from low-strength wastewater by combined membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI) and ion exchange (IE) process.
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Wang, Zhijie, Gong, Hui, Zhang, Yun, Liang, Peng, and Wang, Kaijun
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ION exchange (Chemistry) , *DEIONIZATION of water , *WATER purification , *SALINE water conversion , *AMMONIA , *COMPOSITION of water - Abstract
Nitrogen exists in municipal wastewater in the form of ammonia/ammonium which is a recoverable resource. Recovering nitrogen to improve nitrogen-use efficiency should be carefully considered to promote global environmental sustainability. However, ammonia/ammonium is always not well recovered but removed as one of the main pathways for nitrogen release into the environment, which is due to ineffective ammonia capture. In this study, a new method of ion-exchange resin ammonium recovery combined with membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI + IE process) pretreatment is proposed. Selective ion removal by MCDI is demonstrated and ammonium ratio to the total prior ion (K + , Ca 2+ and Mg 2+ ) in outflow of MCDI cell is respectively increased from ∼15% to over 30% and 45% after 3 and 5 MCDI cycles. The MCDI + IE process could deal with 2.48 and 3.89 times of inflow, respectively, compared with the single IE process after 3 and 5 MCDI charge–discharge cycles and recover more than 65% of ammonium in a resin regeneration cycle after 3 MCDI cycles. It ascribes to MCDI desalination eliminating the negative effects of divalent cations, such as Ca 2+ and Mg 2+ , on the IE absorb–desorb process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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