JP2008208001A - Processing method of carbonized products - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of treating a carbonized product by which a phosphate fertilizer, which is low in the sticking amount of tar content, is high in the concentration of citric acid-soluble phosphate effective for plant fertilizer, is high in the ignition point and is easy in the handling, is obtained. <P>SOLUTION: The carbonized product obtained by carbonizing organic waste such as sewage dehydrated sludge is introduced into a cylindrical heating device 1 provided with a heating source such as a heater in the vicinity and is heat-treated in a low gaseous oxygen atmosphere having air ratio of ≤0.2 at a temperature below the temperature in the carbonization while being transported. The ignition point of the carbonized product is remarkably elevated to improve safety and simultaneously the citric acid-soluble phosphate concentration is remarkably increased to improve the value as the phosphate fertilizer by the heat-treatment. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a method for treating a carbonized product for adjusting a carbonized product made from organic waste such as sewage dewatered sludge to a property suitable as a phosphate fertilizer.

  The amount of organic waste, represented by sewage sludge, has been increasing year by year, and the volume of incinerated ash generated as a result of incineration has been secured even though the volume has been significantly reduced by incineration. Is not easy. Therefore, as disclosed in Patent Document 1, a method of effectively using combustible components in organic waste as a fuel has been put into practical use by carbonizing organic waste in a low oxygen atmosphere instead of incineration. Yes.

  In addition, as described in Patent Document 2, it has also been proposed to produce a fertilizer with less odor and tar by carbonizing organic waste at a low temperature of 700 ° C. or lower. This Patent Document 2 discloses a method for removing tar by using a two-stage carbonization furnace and flowing an inert gas in a direction opposite to the direction of carbonized product transfer in the second-stage carbonization furnace. Yes. This produces a phosphate fertilizer with a low content of tar that is harmful to plants.

  In the method of Patent Document 2, dry distillation gas generated when carbonizing an organic substance is put on an inert gas and discharged out of the system, and tar content in dry distillation gas is prevented from reattaching to the carbonized product. It is valid. However, according to studies by the present inventors, it has been found that there are the following two problems.

  First, a carbonized product carbonized in an inert gas has a low concentration of soluble phosphoric acid required as a phosphate fertilizer. That is, what is effective as a plant fertilizer is a soluble phosphoric acid that is soluble in citric acid among the total phosphoric acid, and it is desirable that the content of phosphoric acid fertilizer is as high as possible. However, a carbonized product carbonized in an inert gas has a soluble phosphoric acid concentration of about 5%. The reason for this is that the carbonized product carbonized in an inert gas has a relatively high content of fixed carbon, so the content of ash is relatively low, and the content of soluble phosphoric acid contained in the ash is also low. This is assumed.

Second, the carbonized product carbonized in an inert gas has a low ignition point of about 200 ° C. In addition, this kind of carbonized product may be oxidized at low temperature when it comes into contact with air during storage, and may self-heat and gradually rise in temperature. For this reason, if the ignition point is low, there is a risk that the container may be ignited during storage or transportation by being packed in a container.
JP 2004-256329 A JP 2006-263529 A

  Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a carbonic acid fertilizer that has a low amount of tar that is harmful to plants, has a high concentration of soluble phosphate that is effective as a plant fertilizer, and has a high ignition point and is easy to handle. It is to provide a method for processing goods.

  The present invention made to solve the above-mentioned problems is that the carbon ratio obtained by carbonizing organic waste is introduced into a cylindrical heating device that can be indirectly heated from the surroundings and transferred, while the air ratio is Heat treatment is performed at a temperature not higher than the temperature of the carbonization treatment in a low oxygen gas atmosphere of 0.2 or less.

  In addition, it is preferable to make the air ratio of the low oxygen gas atmosphere inside a cylindrical heating apparatus into the range of 0.001-0.2 like Claim 2.

  Further, as in claim 3, it is preferable that the low oxygen gas atmosphere is formed by a carrier gas flowing on the opposite side of the carbonized product transfer direction.

  Further, as in claim 4, the organic waste is mainly composed of sewage dewatered sludge, or a mixture of biomass raw materials such as garbage and pruned branches in sewage sludge, and the carbonization temperature is 200. It is preferable that it is -700 degreeC.

  Further, as in claim 5, it is preferable to heat-treat the carbonized product while transferring it to the outlet side by a screw conveyor inside the cylindrical heating device.

  According to the present invention, the carbonized product is heat-treated in a low oxygen gas atmosphere having an air ratio (over 0) of 0.2 or less, thereby reducing the content of fixed carbon and increasing the content of ash. It is possible to increase the concentration of the soluble phosphoric acid effective as a plant fertilizer to about twice that when treated in an inert gas. In addition, the ignition point is increased, and a phosphate fertilizer that is easy to handle can be obtained.

  Particularly, when the air ratio of the low oxygen gas atmosphere is in the range of 0.001 to 0.2 as in the second aspect, the above effect can be maximized. If the air ratio is less than this, the effect will be insufficient due to the heat treatment in the inert gas, and if the air ratio is higher than this, the oxidation will proceed.

  Further, if the low oxygen gas atmosphere is formed by the carrier gas flowing on the opposite side of the carbonized product transfer direction as in claim 3, the tar content can be easily discharged on the carrier gas. A phosphate fertilizer with less adhesion can be obtained.

Preferred embodiments of the present invention are shown below.
FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing an embodiment of the present invention. 1 is a cylindrical heating device having a heating source such as a heater 2 around it, and a screw conveyor 4 driven by a motor 3 is provided in the inside. It has been. Although the kind of heater 2 is not specifically limited, For example, it is an electric heater. The inside of the cylindrical heating device 1 is heated to a predetermined temperature described later by the heater 2.

  5 is a vertically long supply chamber provided at the inlet of the cylindrical heating device 1, and 6 is an outlet chamber provided at the other end of the cylindrical heating device 1, which is obtained by carbonizing organic waste in the previous step. The carbonized product is charged into the cylindrical heating device 1 from the supply chamber 5 and is heated while being transferred toward the outlet chamber 6 by the screw conveyor 4.

  A carrier gas is supplied from the outlet chamber 6 toward the inside of the cylindrical heating device 1. In the present invention, low oxygen gas is used as the carrier gas, and the inside of the cylindrical heating apparatus 1 is set to a low oxygen gas atmosphere having an air ratio exceeding 0 and not more than 0.2. Specifically, a small amount of air may be mixed in an inert gas such as nitrogen gas to create a carrier gas with an adjusted air ratio. As shown in FIG. 1, the carrier gas flows through the inside of the cylindrical heating device 1 in the direction opposite to the carbonized product transfer direction and is exhausted from the upper end of the supply chamber 5. This air ratio is preferably in the range of 0.001 to 0.2, and more preferably in the range of 0.01 to 0.1. The air ratio refers to the ratio of the amount of air actually used to the amount of air required to completely burn the carbonized product.

  As described above, the carbonized product produced by carbonizing the organic waste in the previous step is put into the cylindrical heating apparatus 1 from the supply chamber 5. The organic waste is, for example, sewage dewatered sludge, and the carbonization temperature is preferably 200 to 700 ° C, more preferably 300 to 600 ° C. This is because if the temperature of the carbonization treatment is less than 200 ° C., the carbonization hardly proceeds, and if it exceeds 700 ° C., the concentration of soluble phosphoric acid is reduced and the utility value as a phosphate fertilizer is reduced.

  In addition, since the carbonized product in the previous stage where the treatment according to the present invention is performed has a low ignition point and a low concentration of soluble phosphoric acid, a product with higher added value can be obtained by performing this treatment.

  Therefore, the carbonized product is heat-treated in the inside of the cylindrical heating apparatus 1 in a low oxygen gas atmosphere in which the above-described air ratio exceeds 0 and is 0.2 or less. The heating temperature shall be a temperature that does not exceed the temperature of the carbonization treatment. If the carbonization treatment temperature is 500 ° C., the heat treatment temperature inside the cylindrical heating apparatus 1 is 300 to 500 ° C., and the carbonization treatment temperature is 400 ° C. The heat treatment temperature inside the cylindrical heating device 1 is preferably about 200 to 400 ° C. However, if the heat treatment temperature is lower than 200 ° C., the effect of the heat treatment is reduced, and therefore, it is preferable to set the temperature within the range of 200 ° C. to carbonization temperature.

  When heat treatment is performed in such a low oxygen gas atmosphere, a mild oxidation reaction occurs between a small amount of oxygen in the atmosphere and the carbonized product. At this time, volatile components contained in the carbonized product are oxidized first, and as a result, the ignition point is increased. However, as can be seen from the data of the examples described later, the ignition point does not rise even when the heat treatment is performed in an inert gas. Since the tar content in the volatile gas is discharged out of the system together with the carrier gas, the tar content is removed from the carbonized product as in the conventional case.

  In addition, if heat treatment is performed in a low oxygen gas atmosphere, the oxidation of fixed carbon in the carbonized product proceeds, and the content of fixed carbon decreases and at the same time the content of ash increases. As a result, the total phosphoric acid concentration and the soluble phosphoric acid concentration also rise, and change to properties suitable as a phosphate fertilizer. As can be seen from the data of the examples described later, even when the heat treatment is performed in an inert gas, the concentration of soluble phosphoric acid is only slightly increased.

  The carbonized product thus heat-treated is taken out from the outlet chamber 6 and used as phosphate fertilizer. The treated carbonized product has a small tar content, a high soluble phosphoric acid concentration of 10% or more, an ignition point nearly 100 ° C. higher than before, and a high safety.

  The carbonized product was heat-treated using the apparatus shown in FIG. The carbonized product used is obtained by carbonizing sewage dewatered sludge at 500 ° C. The properties are shown in Table 1.

  When the heater is set to two temperatures of 300 ° C and 400 ° C, and the carrier gas is mixed with a small amount of air so that the air ratio is 0.02 (Examples 1 and 2), the carrier gas contains no air at all. When the nitrogen gas was not used (Comparative Examples 1 and 2), heat treatment was performed, and the fertilizer performance and heat generation characteristics of the obtained carbonized products were measured and summarized in Table 1. Measurement of total phosphate concentration and soluble phosphate concentration is based on the ammonium vanadmolybdate method in the “Fertilizer Analysis Method” established by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Measured based on the published “Simple method for measuring tar content in sewage sludge carbide” and ash, fixed carbon, and volatile content based on “JIS M 8812 Coal and cokes-industrial analysis method”. The ignition point was measured based on the “Carbide Self-heating Characteristics Evaluation Test Manual” established by the Japan Sewerage Corporation.

  In the case of the example, due to heat generation due to oxidation, the actually measured temperature of the heater rose about 100 ° C. from the heater set temperature. The ethanol extraction test in Table 1 is a tar extraction test, and its concentration is required to be 0.5 or less.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram summarizing changes in the ignition point in the above data, and FIG. 3 is a diagram summarizing changes in the soluble phosphoric acid concentration. As is clear from these figures, when the heat treatment of the present invention is carried out, the ignition point is significantly increased and the safety is increased, and the concentration of soluble phosphate is also greatly increased, thereby improving the value as a phosphate fertilizer. be able to.

It is sectional drawing which shows embodiment of this invention. It is the graph which summarized the change of the ignition point in an Example. It is the graph which put together the change of the soluble phosphate concentration in an Example.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Tubular heating apparatus 2 Heater 3 Motor 4 Screw conveyor 5 Supply chamber 6 Exit chamber

Claims (5)

  While carbonized products obtained by carbonizing organic waste are introduced into a cylindrical heating device that can be indirectly heated from the surroundings and transferred, the carbonization is performed in a low oxygen gas atmosphere with an air ratio of 0.2 or less. A method for treating a carbonized product, wherein the heat treatment is performed at a temperature lower than the treatment temperature.   The method for treating a carbonized product according to claim 1, wherein an air ratio of a low oxygen gas atmosphere inside the cylindrical heating device is set to a range of 0.001 to 0.2.   2. The method for treating a carbonized product according to claim 1, wherein the low oxygen gas atmosphere is formed by a carrier gas flowing on a side opposite to a direction in which the carbonized product is transferred.   Organic waste is mainly sewage dewatered sludge, or is mixed sewage sludge with biomass raw materials such as garbage and pruned branches, and its carbonization temperature is 200 to 700 ° C. The method for treating a carbonized product according to claim 1.   The carbonized product processing method according to claim 1, wherein the carbonized product is transferred to the outlet side by a screw conveyor inside the cylindrical heating device.

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