Removing ammonia from skim by air stripping with rotating packed bed

Based on the effects of skim components on ammonium removal as well as the current processing technology, a new process-intensified technology of removing ammonia from skim by air stripping on rotating packed bed was proposed. The experiments were conducted on a wave-thread packed Rotating Packed Bed (RPB) under atmospheric pressure, suggesting that, in terms of order of importance, the ammonium concentration of feed-stock (xw), the average ultra-gravity factor (β), feed-stock flux (L), and gas flux (G) had significant impact on ammonium removal rate (η) and the ammonium concentration of products (xD). In the experiment, mass-transfer coefficient in gas phase (kyae) increases with the increase of β, G/L, and L. The ammonium concentration of products decreases with the increase of β, G/L and the increase of L. The ammonium concentration of products would be as low as 0.10% and the ammonia removal rate would be 63.21% when skim temperature was 25 °C, xw 0.28%, β 133.2, and G/L 15.0 m3·L−1. Experiment results indicated that the proposed technology for removing ammonium from skim on a rotating packed bed would be a new process-intensified technique compared with traditional aeration process and centrifugal atomization method.