Abstract:Black liquor is always treated by traditional alkali recovery method in which the biomass including lignin is burned to reduce the organic pollutants; and a large amount of CO2 and other harmful gases are generated while generating sodium carbonate. In order to solve this problem, a new method was developed to treat pulping black liquor. The process included five steps: acidified precipitation(A), desalination by frozen crystallization(D), upflow activated sludge bed(UASB), reverse osmosis filtration(RO) and electrolysis(E). The experimental results ware, the yield of lignin was 28.09% of the mass of the black liquid, the alkali production rate was 2.38 g /(h·L), when electrolytic for 24 hours, the alkali recovery rate of sodium sulfate was 50.64%,the electric energy consumption was 1.598 kWh per 1 kg of sodium hydroxide. |