Reuse of manganese sulfate as raw material by recovery from pesticide's wastewater using nanofiltration and electro-electrodialysis: process simulation and analysis from actual data

Abstract

Reuse of wastewater, as well as recovery of valuable, toxic or harmful products in industrial discharges, still represents an important issue, not only because it reduces the effect on receiving water bodies, but also because of the economic resources it represents for industry itself. In this research, in situ regeneration of Mn2SO4 is evaluated, for its reuse as the main raw material in the original process of a fungicide plant. The regeneration is evaluated by selective recovery of Mn2+, Zn2+ and SO4= present in the wastewater produced by the industrial plant, and utilizing nanofiltration, electro-electrodialysis and chemical precipitation as separation alternatives. Each alternative was designed and evaluated technically and economically through simulations in Aspen Plus®, with data and information of the real process supplied by the company. Because zinc concentration is relatively low, its selective recovery was not attractive. The resulting Mn2SO4 solution and treated water quality in conventional alternatives were significantly poor with high costs. In contrast, nanofiltration and electro-electrodialysis alternatives generate water and by-products of higher quality and reuse potential with significantly lower costs. However, their viability depends on the membrane performance. The results were satisfactory, but future experimental studies are required to optimize the alternatives and define the correct pretreatment process.

Copper Recovery From Ammonia Solutions Through Electro-Electrodialysis (EED)

“…Widespread research interests regarding applications of EED are being directed toward applications such as water purification (Wu et al, 2019;Mejía et al, 2020), organic and inorganic acid and base recovery (Chapotot et al, 1995;Yi et al, 2008;Wei et al, 2013;Tanaka et al, 2014;Miao et al, 2016;Pisarska et al, 2017), as well as metal concentration from liquid sources (Jin et al, 2016;Liu et al, 2020). Par excellence, electrochemical processes have been chosen as efficient, effective, and reliable methodologies for processes involving the selective recovery of metallic species (Jin and Zhang, 2020).…”