Control de fluoruros con recuperación de producto

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to support the trends of the chemical industry development that promote sustainability. The goal is an integrated pollution control to reduce the emissions in order to promote sustainable production activities. In this sense, the common methods for fluoride removal from industrial wastewater involve chemical precipitation. The process generates large amounts of a water rich sludge requiring disposal with increasing costs. Due to the high water content and the low quality of the sludge, reuse of fluoride is not an economical option. The removal of fluoride in a fluidized bed reactor by crystallization has been presented in this thesis as an alternative to the chemical precipitation. When it is compared with the conventional precipitation process, the major advantage of this new clean technology is the elimination of sludge formation, the materials recovery and the reduction of solid waste.