Treatment of nickel-ammonia complex ion-containing ammonia nitrogen wastewater

Air stripping was adopted to treat nickel ammonia complex ion-containing wastewater in order to remove nickel and ammonia simultaneously in one technological process. The relationship among pH, the concentration of nickel ammonia complex ion and total ammonia concentration was analyzed theoretically. Influence of pH value, water temperature, airflow rate and time on air stripping was studied in detail by static experiment in laboratory. The results show that at pH 11, temperature of 60 °C and airflow rate of 0.12 m3/h, NH3 and Ni2+ concentrations remained in wastewater are less than 2 and 0.2 mg/L, respectively, after blowing for 75 min, which reaches the standard of the state discharge. When the tail gas is absorbed by 0.5 mol/L H2SO4 in order to avoid the secondary pollution, the absorption rate can achieve 70%.