Minimizing Excess Ammonia in Wastewater
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Jul-12-2010
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Ammonia can be both beneficial and detrimental. Ammonia is used commercially as main chemical for plastic products, explosives, cleaning agents, and etc. However, this chemical poses grave threat to human life especially when it goes through wastewater.
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Ammonia can be helpful industrially and economically. Ammonia can be often seen used in chemical industries as a cleansing agent and also, a bleaching agent. Ammonia is mainly present in the marketable production of plastics, explosives, chemical fertilizers, and a lot more. We can also see ammonia being used in pharmaceutical products. We can say that ammonia can be very handy, but we have to be wary that excessive ammonia can also be harmful, especially in our surroundings.
Ammonia came from a combination of nitrogen and hydrogen. It has a strong distinctive smell and it is colorless. Aside from being useful industrially, it can also be helpful to other organisms that live on land because it is the primary component in making organic fertilizers. Because of the reckless use of ammonia, it’s becoming an abundant component of our atmosphere nowadays. People are getting aware of this fact that is why they are coming up with different ideas that can control the amount of ammonia in our environment, especially in our water.
Steam Stripping, Catalytic Oxidation and Self Steam Compression are some of the technological system used in controlling the ammonia level in wastewater. The process will start by putting the wastewater with the alarming amount of ammonia into the Ammonia Stripper. This should be heated up with the steam in that machine. The steam that is rich in ammonia will be then released from the stripper and then will be led to the NH3 Oxidative Decomposing Reactor, following the way of Steam Compressor and the Reboiler. After all the tedious process, NH3 gas will be decomposed and then it will turn into nitrogen and water in the reactor. In the process, some of the excess ammonia would still be released in the atmosphere that can still be a threat in our environment.
That is why another idea came up by using Nitrifying bacteria. This is the more Earth-friendly way of removing excess ammonia in our environment. By introducing these specialize bacteria, we can surely control the ammonia level, and at the same time, other organisms can benefit from the by-product of the decomposition.
There are two groups of what we call Nitrifying bacteria. The first group, the Nitrosomonas spp. , will first convert the ammonia overload in our environment into Nitrite. Then the nitrite will be then converted into Nitrates by the second group of the Nitrifying bacteria called Nitrobacter spp. The Nitrates will be then available for other organisms that need it. It’s all natural and it is really a sure way of eliminating excess ammonia in the environment.
Some methods are also recommended in removing unwanted ammonia in our environment. We also have the Membrane contractors where in ammonia will be eliminated from the waste water and it will right away be turned into some kind of ammonia salt. These ammonia salts can be used commercially and can be also lucrative in one way of another. This system can be considered better because aside from the fact that it will greatly decrease the ammonia load on the treatment process, this process can also be profitable.
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Article Source :
http://www.articleseen.com/Article_Minimizing Excess Ammonia in Wastewater_25242.aspx
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Author Resource :
Lara Davidson is a chemist from a water treatment company. Hydra International Corporation Inc is a major chemical formulator and water treatment supplier.
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Keywords :
ammonia removal from water, ammonia remover, pond beneficial bacteria, bacteria for ponds,
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Reference and Education
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Environmental
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