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Recovery of high purity zinc from filter ash produced during the thermal treatment of waste and inerting of residual materials
Stefan Schlumberger
Department Chemie, Lehreinheit Anorganische Chemie, Technische Universität München, Germany
Michael Schuster
Department Chemie, Lehreinheit Anorganische Chemie, Technische Universität München, Germany, Michael.Schuster{at}ch.tum.de
Stefan Ringmann
TECHFORM Engineering AG, Pfäffikon, Switzerland
Ralf Koralewska
MARTIN GMBH für Umwelt- und Energietechnik, Munich, Germany
The method described below recovers zinc, a valuable metal that is present in high concentrations in filter ash from the thermal treatment of waste, and returns the filter ash stripped of heavy metals to the combustion process in order to destroy organic substances. On an industrial scale, the heavy metals in the filter ash were mobilized by means of hydrochloric acid in the acidic fluids produced in the flue-gas scrubbing process without the addition of further chemicals. A pilot plant for implementing the selective reactive extraction (SRE) method on the ash extracts, using a highly selective complexant, was operated over a period of several months in order to obtain a concentrated, high-purity zinc salt solution (mono metal solution). A zinc depletion rate of 99.8% in the aqueous extract was achieved using mixer—settler units. The residual zinc concentration in the waste water was then < 2 mg L—1. By stripping the loaded organic phase, a concentrated, high-purity mono metal solution with 190 g L— 1 zinc was obtained. Zinc metal with a purity > 99.99% is then separated by means of electrolysis. To destroy organic substances present in the filter ash, particularly dioxins and furans, the extracted filter ash cake was returned to the combustion process together with household waste. Plant operation, raw and pure gas parameters, and quality of the bottom ash produced were not impacted by such recirculation. The profitability of the overall process is attributable both to the recovery of valuable zinc metal and to the cost savings made in waste water treatment and in the disposal of the waste combustion residues because the remaining mixture of filter ash and bottom ash can be reused in a combined form. This method therefore supports the sustainable and economically viable reuse of filter ash.
Key Words: Filter ash treatment • selective reactive extraction • ash recirculation • zinc recovery • acidic filter ash scrubbing • wmr 916—3
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Waste Management & Research, Vol. 25, No. 6,
547-555 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X07079870
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