JP2005314178A - Recovery method of industrially useful inorganic material - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of stably recovering an industrially useful inorganic material including a high purity KCl salt without any heating and cooling units but with a simple operation. <P>SOLUTION: In this method, a dust (chlorine by-pass dust) contained in a combustion gas extracted from the combustion gas of a cement kiln is collected, water is added to the collected dust and made a slurry, then separated into a cake and a filtrate, and after heavy metals are removed from the filtrate, the treated water is separated into a concentrated salt water and a desalted water through an electric dialysis unit, then the desalted water is recycled and used as a washing water of the chlorine by-pass dust and an inorganic material containing alkali metal salts is recovered from the concentrated salt water by crystallization. The treated water after removal of the heavy metals may be separated into a concentrated salt water and a desalted water containing selenium by using a monovalent-ion selective permeating membrane. The obtained inorganic material can be used as a manure, etc., by making the content of potassium chloride not less than 90 wt%. The drain generated during crystallization of the concentrated salt water may be reused for washing of the dust. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a method for recovering industrially useful inorganic materials, and more particularly to a method for stably recovering inorganic materials containing a high-purity KCl (potassium chloride) salt by a simple operation.

  Conventionally, from wastewater containing chlorine and alkali components generated from incineration ash generated when municipal waste, industrial waste, etc. are incinerated or melted, or dust generated in the cement manufacturing process, heavy metals, etc. In order to recover an industrially usable high-purity alkali metal salt that does not contain unnecessary components, for example, Patent Document 1 discloses monovalent ion selectivity with respect to treated water from which heavy metals in wastewater have been removed. A technique is disclosed in which an inorganic material is separated and recovered as an alkali metal salt such as NaCl or KCl by crystallization from the concentrated water by using an electrodialyzer equipped with an ion exchange membrane as concentrated water containing monovalent ions. ing.

  In Patent Document 2, leachate from a waste landfill site is detoxified, and high purity NaCl salt and KCl salt are separated and purified, so that waste such as residues from a waste incinerator is landfilled. The leachate generated at the disposal site is introduced into the reverse osmosis membrane filtration device and filtered, the permeated water from the reverse osmosis membrane filtration device is discharged, and the concentrated water from the reverse osmosis membrane filtration device is introduced into the NF filtration device and filtered. After returning the concentrated water of the NF filtration device to a waste incinerator or ash melting furnace to thermally decompose harmful substances in the concentrated water, introducing the permeated water of the NF filtration device into the chelate adsorption tower and performing chelate adsorption treatment, There has been proposed a technique in which a NaCl salt is crystallized by heating with a heating type crystallizer, and a KCl salt is crystallized by cooling with a cooling type crystallizer.

JP 2001-26418 A JP 2001-321768 A

  However, in the techniques described in Patent Documents 1 and 2, when recovering high-purity KCl salt, first, concentrated salt water is heated to crystallize NaCl salt, and then cooled to crystallize KCl salt. Therefore, there is a problem that an apparatus for performing heating and cooling is required and a heating and cooling operation is required in the recovery process.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the problems in the above-described conventional inorganic material recovery methods, which eliminates the need for a heating / cooling device, reduces equipment costs, and is stable with simple operation. Another object is to recover an industrially useful inorganic material containing a high-purity KCl salt.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is an industrially useful method for recovering an inorganic material, in which a part of a cement kiln combustion gas is extracted, dust contained in the extracted combustion gas is collected, After adding water to the collected dust to form a slurry, it is separated into a cake and a filtrate, and after removing heavy metals from the filtrate, the treated water is passed through a concentrator such as an electrodialyzer and concentrated salt water and It is separated into demineralized water, and the demineralized water is circulated and used as water in obtaining a slurry from the dust collection dust, and an inorganic material containing an alkali metal salt is recovered from the concentrated salt water by crystallization. .

  According to the present invention, at the beginning of operation, the filtrate remains after filtering the salt after crystallization, but the filtrate has a small KCl and a large NaCl compared to the average concentration in the dust. At the stage of further operation, the KCl concentration in the filtrate gradually increases, and becomes an average KCl and NaCl concentration in the dust. The filtrate can be passed through an electrodialyzer or the like to maintain a high KCl concentration when concentrated salt water is obtained, and an inorganic material having a high KCl concentration can be recovered stably. In addition, according to the present invention, even when dust having a low KCl concentration temporarily than usual and having a high NaCl concentration is supplied to the water washing step, the KCl concentration of the solution entering the crystallizer can be maintained high, and thus recovered. The KCl concentration of the inorganic material does not drop to a value that causes a problem.

For example, by using a monovalent anion selective permeable membrane in the electrodialysis apparatus, the treated water after removing heavy metals from the filtrate can be separated into concentrated salt water and demineralized water containing SO ₄ component. As a result, the amount of selenium contained in the recovered inorganic material can be reduced.

  The KCl content of the inorganic material containing the alkali metal salt can be 90% by weight or more. Thereby, the recovered inorganic material can be effectively used as a high-purity KCl fertilizer raw material.

  The drain generated during the crystallization of the concentrated salt water can be circulated and used as water for obtaining a slurry from the dust collection dust. As a result, it is possible to prevent drainage from being discharged outside the system, and it can be effectively used as flush water.

  A part or all of the filtrate separated by filtration after crystallization of the concentrated salt water can be discharged. Thus, when the KCl concentration in the concentrated water is lowered, the filtrate can be prevented from returning to the crystallization step again.

  Another aspect of the present invention is an industrially useful inorganic material, which is recovered by the above-described industrially useful inorganic material recovery method.

  INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY According to the industrially useful inorganic material recovery method according to the present invention, no cooling device is required among heating / cooling devices, equipment costs can be reduced, and high-purity KCl can be stably and easily operated. It is possible to recover industrially useful inorganic materials including salts.

  In the present invention, a part of the combustion gas is extracted from the kiln exhaust gas flow path from the bottom of the kiln of the cement kiln to the bottom cyclone to remove chlorine and sulfur, and from the dust contained in the extracted combustion gas, Inorganic materials useful for recovery are recovered.

  The reason why chlorine and sulfur are removed by extracting part of the combustion gas from the cement kiln is because chlorine and sulfur cause problems such as clogging of preheaters in cement production facilities. Since this is a particular problem, a chlorine bypass facility is used in which a part of the combustion gas is extracted from the kiln exhaust gas passage from the kiln bottom of the cement kiln to the bottom cyclone to remove chlorine.

  In this chlorine bypass facility, chlorine is unevenly distributed on the fine powder side of the dust generated by cooling the extracted combustion gas. At the same time, fine powder (chlorine bypass dust) containing the separated KCl and the like was recovered and added to the cement grinding mill system.

  However, in recent years, recycling of waste by converting to cement raw material or fuel has been promoted, and as the amount of waste processed increases, the amount of volatile components such as chlorine, sulfur, and alkali brought into the cement kiln also increases. The amount of bypass dust is also increasing. Since it is predicted that the amount of chlorine bypass dust generated will increase further in the future, it is necessary to develop an effective utilization method.

  The present invention recovers industrially useful inorganic material containing high-purity KCl from the filtrate generated when the above-mentioned chlorine bypass dust is washed with water, and is effective for chlorine bypass dust without causing environmental pollution. It is intended for use.

  The overall configuration of a system for carrying out the industrially useful inorganic material recovery method according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. This system is roughly divided into a water washing process, a wastewater treatment process, and a salt recovery process.

  The water washing step is a step of washing the chlorine bypass dust to remove the chlorine component. In order to carry out this step, the boiler 1, the hot water tank 2, the dissolution tank 3, the belt filter 4, and the storage tank 5 are provided. Here, the average chemical analysis value of the chlorine bypass dust is as shown in Table 1.

  Warm water generated in the boiler 1 is supplied to the dissolution tank 3 through the warm water tank 2 and mixed with chlorine bypass dust. In the dissolution tank 3, the water-soluble chlorine content contained in the chlorine bypass dust is dissolved in warm water. The slurry discharged from the dissolution tank 3 is subjected to solid-liquid separation in the belt filter 4, and the primary cake from which the chlorine content has been removed is returned to the cement kiln and used as a cement raw material. On the other hand, the primary filtrate containing heavy metals such as chlorine and selenium is temporarily stored in the storage tank 5. The average chemical analysis value of the primary filtrate is as shown in Table 2.

  An example of the waste water treatment method is shown below. The wastewater treatment step is a step of removing heavy metals such as selenium and calcium from the primary filtrate, and in order to carry out this step, the chemical reaction tanks 6, 8, 10 and a filter as a solid-liquid separation device Presses 7 and 9, an iron removal tower 11, a chelate resin tower 12, and a filtration device 13 are provided.

  The primary filtrate containing heavy metals such as chlorine and selenium, calcium and sulfuric acid components stored in the storage tank 5 is supplied to the chemical reaction tank 6. Hydrochloric acid as a pH adjusting agent is added to the chemical reaction tank 6 to adjust the pH in the chemical reaction tank 6 to 4 or less. The reason for supplying hydrochloric acid is to dissolve ferrous sulfate as a reducing agent to enhance the effect as a reducing agent. In addition, as a reducing agent, you may use ferrous chloride, iron powder, etc. instead of ferrous sulfate.

  With ferrous sulfate, selenium contained in the wastewater is reduced and deposited. Next, calcium hydroxide is added to raise the pH to 7 to 12, and the ferrous hydroxide produced by the addition of ferrous sulfate is condensed and precipitated. The reason why the pH is adjusted to 7 to 12 is that ferrous hydroxide, selenium compound and / or selenium metal, lead hydroxide and the like are precipitated as products in this pH range. In place of calcium hydroxide, calcium oxide, sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide or the like may be used.

  And the slurry discharged | emitted from the chemical | medical solution reaction tank 6 is solid-liquid separated by the filter press 7, a secondary cake is returned to a cement kiln etc. and used as a cement raw material, and a secondary filtrate is potassium carbonate in the chemical | medical solution reaction tank 8. To produce calcium carbonate. By filtering this, calcium in the secondary filtrate is removed. The reason why calcium in the secondary filtrate is removed is to prevent clogging between the exchange membranes due to the calcium scale in the electrodialysis apparatus 14 in the subsequent stage. In addition, you may use sodium carbonate instead of potassium carbonate.

  Next, the slurry discharged from the chemical reaction tank 8 is solid-liquid separated by a filter press 9 and the tertiary cake is returned to the cement kiln and used as a cement raw material. The tertiary filtrate is adjusted to pH by adding hydrochloric acid. After that, iron, residual heavy metals, and suspended substances (SS) are removed by the iron removal tower 11, the chelate resin tower 12, and the filtration device 13. Waste water from the filtration device 13 is supplied to the electrodialysis device 14 in the next salt recovery step.

  The salt recovery step is a step of separating the waste water from the waste water treatment step into concentrated salt water and demineralized water and recovering KCl from the concentrated salt water to obtain industrial raw materials. In order to carry out this step, the electrodialyzer 14 A boiler 15, a heater 16, a crystallizer 17, a condenser 18, a filtrate tank 19, and a centrifuge 20.

  Waste water from the filtration device 13 in the waste water treatment step is supplied to the electrodialysis device 14. The electrodialyzer 14 functions to include monovalent anions and cations in the tertiary filtrate from the filtration device 13 on the concentrated salt water side. The operation principle of the electrodialyzer 14 will be described with reference to FIG.

The electrodialysis apparatus 14 includes an anode 14a and a cathode 14b at both ends, and a cation exchange membrane 14c as an ion exchange membrane and an anion exchange membrane 14d are alternately arranged between the electrodes 14a and 14b. A desalting chamber 14e or a concentration chamber 14f is formed between the cation exchange membrane 14c and the anion exchange membrane 14d. Treatment liquid (filtration device 13 filtrate) is supplied to the desalting chamber 14e, K ⁺ is included in the processing liquid to move through the cation exchange membrane 14c into the concentrating compartment 14f, Cl ^- is negative It passes through the ion exchange membrane 14d and moves to the concentration chamber 14f. On the other hand, if the anion exchange membrane has selectivity for monovalent ions, since selenic acid (SeO ₄ ²⁻ ) is divalent, it remains in the desalting chamber 14e. As a result, an anion having a valence of ² or more such as SeO ₄ ²⁻ remains in the desalting chamber 14e, and K ⁺ and Cl ⁻ move to the concentration chamber 14f, and these become KCl and are included in the concentrated salt water. SeO ₄ ^2- is included in the demineralized water. Although not shown, Na ⁺ also moves to the concentration chamber 14f, becomes NaCl, and is included in the concentrated salt water. Further, SO ₄ ²⁻ is also contained in the desalted water because it remains in the desalting chamber 14e.

  The desalinated water from the electrodialyzer 14 is returned to the hot water tank 2 in the water washing step via a circulation route (not shown) (see symbol A in FIG. 1).

The concentrated salt water is heated in the heater 16 by steam from the boiler 15 and crystallized in the crystallizer 17. In the crystallizer 17, the solute in the concentrated salt water is precipitated as crystals, and the industrially useful inorganic material is recovered through the centrifugal separator 20. Here, as described above, when comparing K ⁺ and Na ⁺ contained in the filtrate, as shown in Table 2, since K ⁺ is contained approximately 10 times more than Na ⁺ , In the crystallization process, KCl is initially precipitated, and then KCl and NaCl are mixed and precipitated. Therefore, by collecting materials having a high KCl concentration in the first stage of the crystallization process, inorganic materials having a high KCl concentration as shown in Table 3 can be recovered.

  On the other hand, the water evaporated in the crystallizer 17 is cooled in the condenser 18 to recover the drain, and this drain is returned to the hot water tank 2 in the washing step (see reference A). The filtrate separated by the centrifuge 20 is returned to the crystallizer 17 through the filtrate tank 19. Note that part or all of the filtrate in the filtrate tank 19 can be discharged without returning to the crystallizer 17.

  As described above, after recovering the inorganic material having a high KCl concentration in the first stage of the crystallization process, only an industrially useful inorganic material in which KCl and NaCl are mixed can be obtained. The filtrate in the filtrate tank 19 can be discharged without returning to the crystallizer 17, or the concentrated salt water from the electrodialyzer 14 can be discharged as it is after being drained.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is a whole block diagram of the system for enforcing the industrially useful inorganic material collection | recovery method concerning this invention. It is the schematic for demonstrating the principle of the electrodialysis apparatus used for the system of FIG.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Boiler 2 Hot water tank 3 Dissolution tank 4 Belt filter 5 Storage tank 6 Chemical reaction tank 7 Filter press 8 Chemical reaction tank 9 Filter press 10 Chemical reaction tank 11 Iron removal tower 12 Chelate resin tower 13 Filtration apparatus 14 Electrodialysis apparatus 14a Anode 14b Cathode 14c Cation exchange membrane 14d Anion exchange membrane 14e Desalination chamber 14f Concentration chamber 15 Boiler 16 Heater 17 Crystallizer 18 Capacitor 19 Filtrate tank 20 Centrifuge

Claims (5)

Extract a part of the cement kiln combustion gas, collect the dust contained in the extracted combustion gas,
After adding water to the collected dust to make a slurry, it is separated into cake and filtrate,
After removing heavy metals from the filtrate, the treated water is separated into concentrated brine and demineralized water,
A method for recovering an industrially useful inorganic material, wherein an inorganic material containing an alkali metal salt is recovered from the concentrated salt water by crystallization.   2. The industrially useful inorganic material recovery method according to claim 1, wherein the content of potassium chloride in the inorganic material containing the alkali metal salt is 90% by weight or more.   The industrially useful inorganic material according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the drain generated during crystallization of the concentrated salt water is circulated and used as water in obtaining a slurry from the dust collection dust. Collection method.   The industrially useful inorganic material recovery method according to claim 1, 2, or 3, wherein a part or all of the filtrate generated during the crystallization of the concentrated salt water is discharged.   An industrially useful inorganic material collected by the industrially useful inorganic material recovery method according to claim 1.

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