Inorganic Chemicals Industry ›› 2025, Vol. 57 ›› Issue (2): 105-112.doi: 10.19964/j.issn.1006-4990.2024-0184

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Study on leaching behavior and kinetics of phosphorus from phosphogypsum

TAN Shanyi1(), WEN Huizi1, HE Shuyu1, ZHANG Liwen1, CHEN Shaohua1(), XI Benjun2   

  1. 1.College of Resources and Environment,South-Central Minzu University,Engineering Research Center for Heavy Metal Pollution Control of Hubei Province,Wuhan 430074,China
    2.HuBei Three Gorges Laboratory,Yichang 443007,China
  • Received:2024-03-31 Online:2025-02-10 Published:2024-06-05
  • Contact: CHEN Shaohua E-mail:tanshanyi0126@126.com;shaohuachen@mail.scuec.edu.cn

Abstract:

It boasts an immense reserve of phosphogypsum with a low utilization rate in China,requiring large-scale stockpiling.In order to reduce the problem of phosphorus pollution caused by phosphogypsum storage process in China,a leaching technology which was widely used due to its simple process and high efficiency was adopted.The effects of nitric acid concentration,solid-liquid mass-to-volume ratio,stirring speed,temperature and reaction time on the leaching efficiency of phosphorus were investigated.The results showed that the phosphorus leaching efficiency was increased with the increase of nitric acid concentration,stirring speed,temperature and reaction time,and decreased with the increase of solid-liquid mass-to-volume ratio,in which the nitric acid concentration,solid-liquid mass-to-volume ratio and stirring speed had a significant effect on phosphorus leaching efficiency,while the temperature had a small effect on phosphorus leaching efficiency.A comparative analysis of the physicochemical properties of phosphogypsum,utilizing advanced characterization techniques such as XRD,XPS,and SEM,revealed a notable reduction in phosphorus content post-leaching.Through the response surface methodology,the optimal reaction conditions were obtained.Under the conditions of nitric acid concentration of 0.50 mol/L,solid-liquid mass-to-volume ratio of 1:14,stirring speed of 200 r/min and temperature of 30 ℃,the phosphorus leaching efficiency reached 97.23% in 120 min.Moreover,the phosphorus leaching kinetics in phosphogypsum was studied.It was proved that the reaction process was belonged to the diffusion control of solid product layer,and the activation energy of the reaction was 11.65 kJ/mol.The study provided a theoretical guidance which had important theoretical and practical significance for the efficient leaching of phosphorus,and offered alternative solutions to the phosphorus pollution issues that existed in the storage process of phosphogypsum in China.

Key words: phosphogypsum, phosphorus pollution, nitric acid, leaching, kinetic

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