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Study on Mg Removal from Ammonium Dihydrogen Phosphate Solution by A Journal of Oceanography and Marine Science Vol. 2(4), pp. 91-95, April 2011 Available online http://www.academicjournals.org/joms ISSN 2141-2294 ©2011 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper Study on Mg2+ removal from ammonium dihydrogen phosphate solution by a novel emulsification extraction process JianHong Luo, Jun Li*, Yang Jin and DongSheng Zheng Department of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610065, People’s Republic of China. Accepted 9 April, 2011 The emulsification extraction process (EEP) is a novel method for separating solutes from aqueous solution, and for its high extraction ratio, the EEP presents huge potential for extraction from dilute solution. In this paper, the EEP is successfully generated with mixing solutions containing aqueous and organic phases at high speed. The extraction of Mg2+ from ammonium dihydrogen phosphate (NH4H2PO4) solution is studied by using kerosene as a solvent, di(2-ethylhexyl)phosphoric acid (D2EHPA) as an extractant. To study the extraction ratio and advantages of the EEP process in the removal of Mg2+, various parameters - D2EHPA volume fraction, reaction temperature, phase volume ratio, initial pH of NH4H2PO4 solution, stirring speed, stirring time were studied and optimized. The 2+ results show that Mg in NH4H2PO4 solution can be effectively removed by EEP process. An extraction ratio of more than 90.1% is attained at the optimized parameters and superior-grade NH4H2PO4 (MAP) can be obtained by two levels of extraction. 2+ Key words: Emulsification extraction process, di(2-ethylhexyl)phosphoric acid, NH4H2PO4, Mg . INTRODUCTION MAP, which is the common name of NH4H2PO4 is used as To get the superior grade MAP, WPA should be purified. flame retardant and drip-irrigation fertilization, which Improving the pH of the solution, usually between 4 to needs highly pure MAP mainly manufactured with 4.5, can remove most of the metal ions, but there still are thermal-process phosphoric acid in the past. The cost of some Mg2+ which can cause formation of troublesome thermal-process phosphoric acid is very high. The yellow- water-insoluble substance in the following concentration phosphorus manufacturers are closed because of the and crystallization process. The main ingredients of pressure from the energy consumption and environment water-insoluble substance are magnesium-containing protection. The cost of yellow phosphorus, as a basic raw phosphate. Therefore, the Mg2+ must be removed, before material of thermal-process phosphoric acid is becoming concentrating the neutralized MAP solution. Several higher and higher. So the low cost of wet-process methods based on solvent extraction (McCullough, 1976; phosphoric acid (WPA) is gradually being paid attention in Lo et al., 1983; Bradford, 1977; Kenneth et al., 1972; Miki recent years. However, there are some undesirable et al., 1997; Mohammad et al., 1997; Hannachi et al., impurities (Fe3+, Al3+, Mg2+) in WPA. They will lower the 2007; Wang et al., 2000) are used to remove Mg2+ in quality of MAP products. phosphorus chemical industry; however, conventional solvent extraction suffers from two disadvantages. It needs a mixing-setting stage, and it requires a high phase volume ratio of solvent/water below which *Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]. extraction is poor. 92 J. Oceanogr. Mar. Sci. Furthermore, because of the nature of the mixing, Mg2+ Mg2+ sometimes there is the undesirable possibility of the M(i) − M(r) E = 2+ ×100% (1) formation of a third colloidal phase which is difficult to MMg eliminate. Faced with these problems, a novel technique (i) of EEP can solve them efficiently. The idea of EEP (the Mg2+ E represents the efficiency of EEP; M : Mole of emulsification extraction pocess) originated from the (i) 2+ emulsification phenomena which is often produced in Mg in initial solution, mol; 2+ conventional solvent extraction process. However, it is Mg 2+ M : Mole of Mg in the raffinate, mol. well known that the emulsification can form an enormous (r) interfacial area as in Figure 1, which can lower the phase volume ratio of solvent/water and where a transfer of solute from one phase to another can occur very rapidly Effect of D2EHPA volume fraction (%) with a minimum energy requirement and shorten the equilibrium time of extraction process. So, how to make Increasing D2EHPA concentration in solvent phase will full use of the advantages of emulsification phenomena is increase the amount of extractant, so the numbers of free considered in this work. In this study, the removal of Mg2+ extractant taking participate in the extraction reaction will from ammonium dihydrogen phosphate with EEP is also increase. However, when the D2EHPA concentration investigated. The aim of this work is to experimentally increases to a certain value, the extraction ratio (E) study the effects of various factors on the extraction ratio remains almost unchanged, because the extraction using EEP. reaction reaches equilibrium. Therefore, the extraction ratio (E) increases as shown in Figure 2. MATERIALS AND METHODS Effect of phase ratio Materials and equipment The phase ratio (aqueous/organic) has a significant effect The solvent used in this work is kerosene. D2EHPA is employed as on extraction ratio (E) and entrainment. This effect is an extractant produced by Luo yang Zhongda Chemical Company (China) (AR grade). Pure water is produced by Aquapro making- studied by changing the phase ratio (aqueous/organic) water machine (ABZ1-1001-P) in our laboratory. Emulsification from 5:1 to 1:1. The results presented in Figure 3 clearly generator using a high-speed stirrer (JRJ-300-I) produced by show that, a phase ratio of 1:1 gives the best extraction Shanghai Specimen and Model Factory (China). of Mg2+. The reason (Wang et al., 2000) for this is that, for the fixed Mg2+ concentration in solution, increasing phase ratio in extraction process will enhance the amount Parameters that could affect the EEP process of solvent and extractant. To study Mg2+ removal efficiency and advantages of the EEP (the emulsification extraction pocess) process, it is necessary to optimize various parameters that could affect the process. The Effect of stirring time parameters to be optimized are the D2EHPA volume content, the reaction temperature, the phase volume ratio, the stirring speed, The extraction of Mg2+ by emulsification extraction and the stirring time, the phase volume ratio and the initial pH of solvent extraction are presented in Figure 4. Figure 4 NH4H2PO4 solution. 2+ indicates that the extraction ratio (E) of Mg is improved with the increase of stirring time. The equilibrium time for Extraction experiment conditions the emulsification extraction of Mg2+ is observed to be 100 to 120 s, which is far less than the solvent extraction Solvent: kerosene, D2EHPA volume content: 50%, phase ratio 2+ equilibrium time of about 30 min. What is more surprising (aqueous/organic) = 5:1, stirring speed: 4500 r/min, initial Mg 2+ concentration: 600 mg/L, initial pH of ammonium dihydrogen is that, the extraction ratio (E) of Mg by emulsification phosphate: 4.5, stirring time: 60 s, reaction temperature: 55°C. extraction is higher than solvent extraction. This is because EEP (the emulsification extraction process) 2+ make the reaction of Mg with D2EHPA more complete Analysis than solvent extraction. Therefore, this means that the equilibrium time for emulsification extraction needs 120 s The concentration of Mg2+ is determined by atomic absorption to ensure completion. spectrophotometry (GF3000). Effect of initial pH of ammonium dihydrogen RESULTS AND DISCUSSION phosphate solution Extraction ratio (E) is defined as follows: The results of the experiments are shown in Figure 5. Luo et al. 93 80 75 70 65 ) % 60 ( E 55 50 45 40 5:1 4:1 3:1 2:1 1:1 Figure 1. Samples of emulsion liquid are examined by a Phase ratio (A/O) microscopic camera. Figure 3. The extraction ratio (E) versus the phase ratio (A/O). 60 Stirring time (s) 20 40 60 80 100 120 55 50 50 45 ) 45 % ( 40 E 40 TThhee MMgg22+ +is i sre rmemoovevedd b byy e Emmuulslifsiicfaictiaotnio en xetxratrcatciotino n ) 35 35 % ( E 30 30 The Mg2++ i sis r reemmoovveed by extracttiion ttecchhnnoollooggyy 25 25 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 D2EHPA volume fraction (%) 20 Figure 2. The extraction ratio (E) versus the D2EHPA volume 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 fraction (%). Reaction time(min) Figure 4. The extraction ratio (E) versus the stirring time. The extraction of Mg2+ reach a maximum at the pH 4.5 where the formation of an ion-pair in ammonium dihydrogen phosphate media is favorable. It was 2+ Effect of stirring speed observed that, with a further increase in pH to 5.0, Mg extraction decreases gradually. At higher pH, there is a As the stiring speed increases, a smaller globule size will 2+ possibility of hydrolysis of the Mg ion-pair complex. The lead to a larger transfer interfacial area between the feed lower values obtained at higher acid concentrations and the solvent phase. This increased transfer area (pH<3.5) are due to competition between the extractable allows the extraction to occur at a higher rate. However, 2+ - Mg and H2PO4 which predominates in ammonium Figure 7 shows that the emulsification speed does not dihydrogen phosphate media at low pH. affect the extraction ratio (E) too much when the stiring speed reaches 4500 r/min. Therefore, the optimum value for stiring speed is found to be 4500 r/min. Effect of reaction temperature From Figure 6, the extraction ratio (E) increases as the Examination temperature rises up, which shows that the extraction of Mg2+ with D2EHPA is endothermic. A kind of practical wet-process phosphoric acid is 94 J. Oceanogr. Mar. Sci. 48 46 44 ) 42 % ( E 40 38 36 34 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 Initial pH of MAP solution Figure 5.
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