Increasing plant phosphorus availability in thermally treated sewage sludge by post-process oxidation and particle size management

Waste Management
Dorette Sophie Müller-StöverSander Bruun

Abstract

Thermal conversion of phosphorus (P)-rich waste materials such as sewage sludge offers several advantages: generation of bioenergy, concentration of plant nutrients and the destruction of organic pollutants. Different thermal processes modify the feedstock's chemical and physical structure in differing ways, which also affects P speciation and plant availability in the residual ashes or carbonization products. This study assessed to which extent the P plant availability of ashes and chars produced from one batch of sewage sludge by incineration, pyrolysis or gasification was affected by particle size management and post-process oxidation. Overall, a smaller particle size of the materials as well as post-process oxidation of non-oxidized materials increased the amount of plant-available P in the soil. In a pot experiment, all the materials increased plant biomass compared with the untreated control, but the pyrolysis chars had a substantially greater fertiliser value than the gasification ashes, while the two tested incineration ashes differed in their P fertilizing effect. P availability in non-oxidized materials was partly related to lower process temperatures and lower levels of crystallinity. However, downstream oxidation si...Continue Reading

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