Salt recovery

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We are facing an issue in separating the salts (sodium chloride and sodium sulphate) which are present in textile sludge(from ATFD). Anybody have any idea how to separate those two salts

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  1. Gokul Ragupathi Dear Sir, From your description, it appears that you have a mixture of desired salts contaminated by organic sludge, which is undesired. Thus you are worried about how to remove the undesired organic sludge. 

    In view of the above, I suggest to kindly try to incinerate the whole mixture at high temperature, which will remove the organic part of the sludge, leaving behind the desired organic salts as residue. The salts will survive the high temperature & the organic sludge will burn away. Of course the emissions of the incinerator need to be properly scrubbed to avoid air pollution.  Regards, 

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  3. I would suggest a conventional method: 

    1. Place the sludge in a chamber in which stirring can be done.
    2. Add some water and stir to obtain slurry.
    3. Add calcium chloride and stir for while. Allow calcium sulphate to settle as precipitate.
    4. remove calcium sulphate as sludge is removed or decant the supernatant now rich in sodium chloride.
    5. The sludge (gypsum) can be used as soil conditioner and solar salt can be obtained from supernatant by solar evaporation. The salt can be used in preparation of animal feed if no toxic matter is present.
    6. Since the end products will be utilisable, the scheme may be financially viable.

     

     

  4. Some of them will be removed by caogulation using PAC, DEC and polyelectrolyte. If you succed to have a clear & cororless efluent after the coagulation, then you could treat by membrane nanofiltration followed by Reverse Osmosis membrane system. NaCl cannot be separated easily.

     

  5. Do you want to separate sodium chloride and sodium sulfate from the sludge, or do you want to separate sodium chloride from sodium sulfate?  If the latter use nanofiltration.

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  6. What are the other components present in this water ? Are there organics ? If yes, how much as the reverse osmosis may not support it.

    What are the concentrations ? If low, electrodialysis can also be looked at.

  7. Reverse osmosis is an excellent option.

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