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Behaviour of heavy metals immobilized by co-melting treatment of sewage sludge ash and municipal solid waste incinerator fly ash

Department of Environmental Engineering, National Ilan University, Taiwan, R.O.C., kllin{at}niu.edu.tw

Wu-Jang Huang

Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Kuan-Chung Chen

Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Jing-Dong Chow

Department of Environmental Engineering,Vanung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

His-Jien Chen

Department of Safety, Health and Environmental Engineering, Mingchi University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

This study elucidates the behaviour of heavy metals in slag produced from four different sewage sludge ashes mixed with municipal solid waste incinerator fly ash and then co-melted. Experimental results indicate that sewage sludge ashes consisted of SiO ₂, CaO, and Al₂O₃. Fly ash consisted of CaO, Na₂O and SO₃. The speciation of sewage sludge ashes indicates that the ashes contained quartz and AlPO₄. The speciation in fly ash consisted of anhydrite, microcline, calcium chloride, sylvite and halite. The leaching behaviours of sewage sludge ashes met the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration’s regulatory standards. The fly ash had high concentrations of Zn and Pb; however, the leaching of these metals was low. The major components of synthetic slags were SiO₂ (33.5—54.0%), CaO (21.4—36.7%), and Al₂O₃ (8.1—15.7%). The X-ray diffraction patterns of co-melted slags demonstrate that the slags contained significant amounts of glass. Most heavy metals can be fixed in a net-like structure; thus, they can not be extracted easily. The toxicity characteristic leaching procedure (TCLP) leaching concentrations for target metals in all slags met the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration’s regulatory standards.

Key Words: Sewage sludge ash • fly ash • heavy metal • leaching concentration • vitrification

This version was published on November 1, 2009

Waste Management & Research, Vol. 27, No. 7, 660-667 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X09103826


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