Apparatus for the Ammonium Recovery from Liquid Animal Manure

摘要

Nitrogen present in animal manure can be a limiting factor when considering manure application rates onto arable land. EU-regulations triggered the development of a new ammonia exchange apparatus for the recovery of ammonia. The described apparatus has a liquid to liquid ammonia mass transfer coefficient of 0.0058 m/s. The results were fitted using a simple first order ammonia exchange model with constant time step that additionally predicted that 80% of the ammonia could be recycled from the liquidfraction of animal manure within a residence time of 10 h with addition of 0.2 M NaOH to the manure, yielding a liquid artificial fertilizer with a calculated achievable maximum concentration of about 18 % nitrogen.