Phosphorus Extraction from Fish Waste Bones Ash by Acidic Leaching Method

² Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Water Security (IPASA), Research Institute for Sustainable Environment (RISE), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

³ Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia

⁴ Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

AJWEP 2020, 17(2), 1–6; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW200013

Submitted: 17 September 2019 | Revised: 9 March 2020 | Accepted: 9 March 2020 | Published: 7 May 2020

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Abstract

The worldwide demand of phosphorus (P) is rising rapidly; however phosphate ores are not renewable. Fish bones contain high amounts of P, but hardly recycled or reused. Therefore, this study investigated P extraction from fish waste bones by acidic leaching method. The study shows that P content in fish bones ash is around 17 wt.%. Acidic leaching of P is carried out using different concentrations of sulphuric acid (H2SO4), to determine the optimum condition of P recovery. More than 97% of P is extracted using 2 M H2SO4 and an acid-ash ratio of 1.5 kg H2SO4/kg ash. Besides, it was found that a reaction period of 90 min is enough to accomplish complete dissolution of fish waste bones ash. The present work suggested that recovering P from fish bones ash is worthy, which is highly advantageous for further applications that apply P additions.

Keywords

Phosphate

fish bones ash

sulphuric acid

phosphorus recovery

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The authors declare they have no competing interests.

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