Comparative study of electroplating sludge reutilization in China: environmental and economic performances.
Electroplating sludge
Heavy metal recovery
Life cycle assessment
Life cycle costing
Resource utilization
Journal
Environmental science and pollution research international
ISSN: 1614-7499
Titre abrégé: Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9441769
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2023
Oct 2023
Historique:
received:
19
02
2023
accepted:
08
09
2023
medline:
23
10
2023
pubmed:
21
9
2023
entrez:
21
9
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Harmless disposal and reutilization of electroplating sludge (ES) attract growing interests due to the high content of heavy metals, which requires economical-affordable and environmentally friendly processing technologies. Main reutilization alternatives in China, i.e., acid leaching, bioleaching, smelting, ironmaking blast furnace co-processing (IBFC), and cement kiln co-processing (CKC), were evaluated and compared via life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC) methods. In addition, the heavy metal recovery potential of these scenarios was also evaluated to focus on the sustainable use of metal resources. LCA results show that acid leaching outperforms other scenarios due to the environmental benefits originating from recovering heavy metals, while smelting exhibits the worst due to high energy consumption. The environmental contribution analysis reveals that the product nickel sulfate has a significant positive impact on acid leaching and bioleaching scenarios, and energy consumption is the key factor for smelting, IBFC, and CKC. LCC results show that bioleaching outperforms others, while CKC performs the worst because only inorganic materials are utilized. Bioleaching has the lowest externality cost while CKC has the highest. The heavy metal recovery assessment indicates that bioleaching exhibits the greatest potential with recovery rates of 99%, 99%, 93%, 96%, and 95% for Cu, Cr, Ni, Zn, and Fe, respectively. In contrast, the target heavy metal recovery rate for both acid leaching and smelting is 93%. Acid leaching and bioleaching scenarios are more advantageous from a comprehensive comparison.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37733201
doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-29849-z
pii: 10.1007/s11356-023-29849-z
doi:
Substances chimiques
Sewage
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Metals, Heavy
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Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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Pagination
106598-106610Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
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