TY - JOUR
A1 - Smol, M.
A1 - Adam, Christian
A1 - Kugler, Stefan
T1 - Thermochemical Treatment of Sewage Sludge Ash (SSA)—Potential and Perspective in Poland
N2 - Phosphorus (P) recovery from sewage sludge ash (SSA) is one of the most promising approaches of phosphate rock substitution in mineral fertilizers and might be a sustainable way to secure supply of this raw material in the future. In the current investigation, the process of thermochemical treatment of SSA was applied to SSA coming from selected mono-incineration plants of municipal sewage sludge in Poland (Cracow, Gdansk, Gdynia, Lodz, Kielce and Szczecin).
The Polish SSA was thermochemically converted in the presence of sodium (Na) additives and a reducing agent (dried sewage sludge) to obtain secondary raw materials for the production of marketable P fertilizers. The process had a positive impact on the bioavailability of phosphorus and reduced the content of heavy metals in the obtained products. The P solubility in neutral Ammonium citrate, an indicator of its bioavailability, was significantly raised from 19.7–45.7% in the raw ashes and 76.5–100% in the thermochemically treated SSA. The content of nutrients in the recyclates was in the range of 15.7–19.2% P2O5, 10.8–14.2% CaO, 3.5–5.4% Na2O, 2.6–3.6% MgO and 0.9–1.3% K2O. The produced fertilizer raw materials meet the Polish norms for trace elements covered by the legislation: the content of lead was in the range 10.2–73.1 mg/kg, arsenic 4.8–22.7 mg/kg, Cadmium 0.9–2.8 mg/kg and mercury <0.05 mg/kg. Thus, these products could be potentially directly used for fertilizer production. This work also includes an analysis of the possibilities of using ashes for fertilizer purposes in Poland, based on the assumptions indicated in the adopted strategic and planning documents regarding waste management and fertilizer production.
KW - Sewage Sludge Ashes
KW - Critical raw materials
KW - Phosphorus
KW - Fertilizer
KW - Sewage Sludge
PY - 2020
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-514468
DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/en13205461
VL - 13
IS - 20
SP - 5461
AN - OPUS4-51446
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Noack, M.
A1 - Dittmar, A.
A1 - Stöhr, M.
A1 - Georgi, G.
A1 - Adam, Christian
A1 - Brenneis, Rudolf
A1 - Kley, Gerd
A1 - Lehmann, Annekatrin
A1 - Handte, J.
A1 - Meichle, K.
A1 - Schwake, M.
T1 - Thermische Regenerierung von Zeolithpulver Typ X aus der VOC-Luftreinigung
N2 - Für die Entfernung von VOC (volatile organic compounds) aus der Luft von Fertigungsstätten werden vielfach mikroporöse Adsorbentien eingesetzt. Die gereinigte Luft wird rezyklisiert. Für die mit VOC beladenen Adsorbentien wird ein Regenerierungsweg für den mehrfachen Gebrauch gesucht. Bei der Regenerierung sollen die VOC möglichst vollständig desorbiert werden und mit einer geringen Gasmenge in einer katalytischen Verbrennung zu CO2 und H2O umgewandelt werden. Die Wirtschaftlichkeit der Luftreinigung wird wesentlich bestimmt durch die Sorptionskapazität des Adsorbens, die erforderliche Energie für die thermische Regenerierung und die Menge des Spülgases bei der Regenerierung. In dieser Arbeit wird der Einsatz von Typ X-Zeolithpulver in der Luftreinigung einer Lackiererei beschrieben und dessen Regenerierung im Labor mittels DTA/TG und Isothermenmessung der Schlüsselkomponenten untersucht. Ferner wurde die Regenerierung des beladenen Zeoliths in einem Labor-Drehrohrofen unter Variation der Betriebsparameter untersucht und anschließend mit ausgewählten Parametern in einem kleintechnischen Drehrohrofen durchgeführt. Die Verfahrensvarianten werden diskutiert.
KW - Adsorption
KW - Verfahrensentwicklung
KW - VOC
KW - Zeolithe
PY - 2007
SN - 0009-286X
SN - 1522-2640
VL - 79
IS - 6
SP - 883
EP - 889
PB - Wiley-VCH Verl.
CY - Weinheim
AN - OPUS4-14975
LA - deu
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Auer, G.
A1 - Spanka, M.
A1 - Hamann, Christopher
A1 - Adam, Christian
T1 - Thermal zinc extraction from steel mill dust
N2 - Treatment and reusing of hazardous wastes have become significant issues of modern societies. Blast furnace sludge (BFS) and electric arc furnace dust (EAFD) are such typical wastes, because they usually contain high amounts of undesirable elements such as zinc (Zn) and lead (Pb).
These elements can cause operational problems in reusing of BFS and EAFD. In this study, the Ferro Duo GmbH and the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing have investigated a novel approach for eliminating and/or recovering Zn and Pb from both wastes. Applied was a selective chlorination and volatilization of Zn and Pb as chlorides at temperatures between 500 °C and 1100 °C. Both product obtained, Zn and Pb in the form of ZnCl2 and PbCl2 and the purified solid mineral compound are attractive materials for further use. Hydrochloric acid and iron(II) chloride were used as chlorination agents. Exceptionally high Zn and Pb removal efficiencies of >99.5 % could be achieved with both chlorination agents, whereby iron(II) chloride exhibited better performance.
KW - Blast furnace sludge
KW - Chlorination
KW - Electric arc furnace dust
KW - Lead
KW - Zinc
KW - Thermochemical treatment
PY - 2019
SN - 1613-2394
VL - 72
IS - 1
SP - 27
EP - 31
PB - GDMB Verlag GmbH
CY - Clausthal-Zellerfeld
AN - OPUS4-47288
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Steckenmesser, D.
A1 - Vogel, Christian
A1 - Herzel, Hannes
A1 - Félix, R.
A1 - Adam, Christian
A1 - Steffens, D.
T1 - Thermal treatment of sewage sludge for phosphorus fertilizer production: a model experiment
N2 - Phosphorus (P) resource availability and quality is declining and recycling P-fertilizers from waste materials are becoming increasingly important. One important secondary P resource is sewage sludge (SSL) where P is often bound as aluminum phosphate (Al-P), iron phosphate (Fe-P) and polyphosphate (poly-P), respectively. Thermal treatment in different ways is a promising way in P recycling to produce highly plant-available P-fertilizers. To investigate mechanisms behind transformation of hardly available P-species toward plant-available P forms we treated a model SSL containing different kinds of defined P sources by low-temperature conversion (LTC) at 500 °C and subsequent thermochemical treatment of the LTC product with Na additives (TCT) at 950 °C, respectively. Pot experiments with ryegrass were carried out to determine the plant availability of P of the different treatments. The poly-P (here pyrophosphates) based fertilizers had a very high plant availability after both thermal treatments. During LTC treatment the plant availability of the Fe-P and Al-P variants increased because of the Formation of Fe(II) phosphates and/or pyro-/polyphosphates. Especially the formation of Al-polyphosphate shows a high plant availability. The subsequent TCT further increased strongly the plant availability of the Fe-P variants because of the formation of highly plant-available CaNaPO4. Thus, a direct TCT without prior LTC probably also produce CaNaPO4 and is recommended for Fe-P based SSL. However, a molar Ca/P ratio of � 1 in the fertilizer is favorable for CaNaPO4 formation. Thus, the knowledge on the source of primary P in SSL is essential for choosing the accurate thermal treatment method to produce highly plant-available P-fertilizers from SSL.
KW - Phosphorus
KW - Sewage sludge
KW - X-ray diffraction
KW - X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy
KW - Fertilizer
PY - 2021
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/01904167.2021.1994595
SN - 0190-4167
VL - 45
IS - 8
SP - 1123
EP - 1133
PB - Taylor & Francis Online
AN - OPUS4-53755
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Adam, Christian
A1 - Kley, Gerd
A1 - Simon, Franz-Georg
T1 - Thermal treatment of municipal sewage sludge aiming at marketable P-fertilisers
N2 - Municipal sewage sludge is a carrier of nutrients most important phosphorus (P) but also contains organic pollutants and heavy metals. A two steps thermal treatment is suggested based on 1. mono-incineration of sewage sludge under destruction of organic pollutants and 2. thermochemical treatment of the resulting ashes to remove heavy metals and increase P-bioavailability. The targeted products are marketable P-fertilisers. The thermochemical treatment was investigated in a gas tight lab-scale rotary furnace. Seven sewage sludge ashes of different origin and composition and one residue from gasification of sewage sludge were mixed with a chlorine donor (e.g. MgCl2) and thermochemically treated under systematic variation of operational parameters. The distributions of the heavy metals between solid and gas phase were determined. The heavy metals concentrations of the treated ashes met the legislative limits in most cases. The products from thermochemical treatment are suited raw materials for P-fertiliser production. Relevant process parameters such as temperature, type and concentration of Cl-donor and retention time were optimised for the thermochemical treatment step.
KW - Sewage sludge
KW - Mono-incineration
KW - Ash treatment
KW - Thermochemical treatment
KW - Phosphorus-fertiliser
PY - 2007
SN - 1345-9678
SN - 1347-5320
VL - 48
IS - 12
SP - 3056
EP - 3061
PB - Japan Institute of Metals
CY - Sendai
AN - OPUS4-16647
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Vogel, Christian
A1 - Stemann, Jan
A1 - Holldack, K.
A1 - Sekine, R.
A1 - Lipiec, E.
A1 - Adam, Christian
T1 - Thermal treatment of chromium (III) oxide with carbonates analyzed by far-infrared spectroscopy
PY - 2015
SN - 0003-7028
SN - 1943-3530
VL - 69
IS - 10
SP - 1210
EP - 1214
PB - Society for Applied Spectroscopy
CY - Frederick, Md.
AN - OPUS4-34635
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Taube, Mareike Carolin
A1 - Adamczyk, Burkart
A1 - Adam, Christian
A1 - Feldmann, Ines
A1 - Ostermann, Markus
A1 - Reuter, M.
A1 - Stelter, M.
T1 - Tantalrecycling aus pyrometallurgischen Rückständen
N2 - Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist die Untersuchung eines bestehenden pyrometallurgischen Prozesses zur Rückgewinnung von Tantal und Niob aus metallurgischen Reststoffen mit vorwiegend niedriger Wertstoffkonzentration.
Zur näheren Erforschung der im vorliegenden Stoffsystem ablaufenden Reduktionsprozesse wurden in einem Elektrolichtbogenofen Schmelzversuche im Pilotmaßstab durchgeführt. Als Reduktionsmittel diente Koks, welcher mithilfe einer Argon-gespülten Eisenlanze in die flüssige mineralische Schmelze eingebracht wurde. Während der Reduktionsbehandlung werden Refraktärmetalle wie Tantal und Niob in ihre Carbide überführt und anschließend in der erschmolzenen eisenbasierten Metallphase am Boden des Reaktors angereichert. Neben Tantal und Niob gelangt auch ein Teil des im Einsatzmaterial enthaltenen Titans als unerwünschtes Begleitelement in die Metallphase.
Sein Großteil verbleibt jedoch als Oxid in der Schlacke und wird dort hauptsächlich im Mineral Perowskit (CaTiO3) gebunden. Die erstarrten Schlackeproben wurden mit verschiedenen Methoden wie Röntgenfluoreszensanalyse, Röntgenbeugung und Rasterelektronenmikroskopie mit gekoppelter energiedispersiver Röntgenanalyse untersucht, um die Bildung tantalhaltiger Mineralphasen zu verschiedenen Stadien des Reduktionsprozesses zu verfolgen.
Die hier gewonnenen Erkenntnisse zeigen, dass weniger die durch das Einblasen von Koks verursachte Reduktionsreaktion, sondern das Absinken der tantalreichen Eisentröpfchen in der flüssigen mineralischen Schmelze, gefolgt von ihrer Anreicherung in die Metallphase, für die Kinetik ausschlaggebend ist.
N2 - An existing pyrometallurgical process for tantalum and niobium recovery, mainly from low grade pyrometallurgical residues, was investigated. Melting experiments were carried out in a pilot-scale electric arc furnace to study the material system during the reduction process caused by blowing coke into the liquid mineral melt. During the pyrometallurgical treatment refractory metals such as tantalum and niobium are converted into their carbides and enriched in the molten iron-based metal phase. Titanium is also enriched in the metal phase as an unwanted accompanying element, but most of it remains in oxidic form in the slag and is mainly bound in the mineral perovskite. Cooled down slag samples were analysed using XRF, XRD, SEM and EDX to investigate the formation of mineral phases rich in tantalum during various stages of the reduction process.
The results show that the settling of the tantalum-rich iron droplets in the molten slag into the metal phase May play a greater role for the kinetics than the actual reduction reaction caused by blowing in coke.
KW - Tantal
KW - Recycling
KW - Reduktionsprozess
KW - Perowskit
KW - Elektrolichtbogenofen
PY - 2020
SN - 1613-2394
VL - 73
IS - 4
SP - 196
EP - 205
PB - GDMB Verlag GmbH
CY - Clausthal-Zellerfeld
AN - OPUS4-51064
LA - deu
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Schraut, Katharina
A1 - Adamczyk, Burkart
A1 - Adam, Christian
A1 - Stephan, D.
A1 - Meng, Birgit
A1 - Simon, Sebastian
A1 - von Werder, Julia
T1 - Synthesis and characterisation of alites from reduced basic oxygen furnace slags
N2 - Basic oxygen furnace slags (BOFS) are by-products of the steelmaking process. Several researchers have studied the production of Portland cement clinker and metallic iron from BOFS via a reductive treatment.
In this study, we applied a carbothermal reduction of BOFS in a technical-scale electric arc furnace and characterised the clinker-like products. Those clinker-like non-metallic products (NMPs) had a chemical and mineralogical composition comparable to clinker for ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and contained large elongated alite crystals as major component. The pure NMPs reacted more slowly and achieved a lower degree of hydration compared with commercial OPC.
If the reactivity of the products can be further increased by employing specific adaptations, it can be used as a full clinker substitute for OPC. Nevertheless, it is also an option to use the material without further modifications as a cement component or concrete addition, which contributes to the strength development in both cases.
KW - BOFS
KW - Hydration products
KW - Thermal analysis
KW - X-ray diffraction
PY - 2021
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2021.106518
SN - 0008-8846
VL - 147
SP - 6518
PB - Elsevier Ltd.
AN - OPUS4-52939
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Ante, A.
A1 - Trumpler, A.
A1 - Niermann, S.
A1 - Decker, Renate
A1 - Hermann, L.
A1 - Adam, Christian
T1 - SUSAN - Sustainable and safe re-use of municipal sewage sludge for nutrient recovery
KW - Sewage sludge
KW - Phosphorus
KW - Recycling
KW - Thermochemical treatment
KW - Heavy metal removal
KW - Large scale consideration
PY - 2010
SN - 0016-3651
VL - 151
IS - 13
SP - 78
EP - 84
PB - Oldenbourg-Industrieverl.
CY - München
AN - OPUS4-22097
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Dombinov, V.
A1 - Herzel, Hannes
A1 - Meiller, M.
A1 - Müller, F.
A1 - Willbold, S.
A1 - Zang, J. W.
A1 - da Fonseca-Zang, W. A.
A1 - Adam, Christian
A1 - Klose, H.
A1 - Poorter, H.
A1 - Jablonowski, N. D.
A1 - Schrey, S. D.
T1 - Sugarcane bagasse ash as fertilizer for soybeans: Effects of added residues on ash composition, mineralogy, phosphorus extractability and plant availability
N2 - Sugarcane bagasse is commonly combusted to generate energy. Unfortunately, recycling strategies rarely consider the resulting ash as a potential fertilizer. To evaluate this recycling strategy for a sustainable circular economy, we characterized bagasse ash as a fertilizer and measured the effects of co-gasification and co-combustion of bagasse with either chicken manure or sewage sludge: on the phosphorus (P) mass fraction, P-extractability, and mineral P phases. Furthermore, we investigated the ashes as fertilizer for soybeans under greenhouse conditions. All methods in combination are reliable indicators helping to assess and predict P availability from ashes to soybeans. The fertilizer efficiency of pure bagasse ash increased with the ash amount supplied to the substrate. Nevertheless, it was not as effective as fertilization with triple-superphosphate and K2SO4, which we attributed to lower P availability. Co-gasification and co-combustion increased the P mass fraction in all bagasse-based ashes, but its extractability and availability to soybeans increased only when co-processed with chicken manure, because it enabled the formation of readily available Ca-alkali phosphates. Therefore, we recommend co-combusting biomass with alkali-rich residues to increase the availability of P from the ash to plants.
KW - Combustion and gasification
KW - Phosphate extractability and availability
KW - X-ray diffraction (XRD)
PY - 2022
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-567632
DO - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.1041924
SN - 1664-462X
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 13
PB - Frontiers Media
CY - Lausanne
AN - OPUS4-56763
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -