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PLANT CAPACITY
PROCESS DESCRIPTION
A typical plant capacity for a polyaluminium
chloride plant is 30'000 tons/ annum The process for the manufacturing of polyalu-
minium chloride consists of the reaction and
with 90 tons/day in 24 hours operation. polymerization between alumina (aluminium
oxide hydrate) and hydrochloric acid at high
temperature and pressure.
PRODUCT SPECIFICATION
Polyaluminium Chloride 18 % Al2O3 The hydrochloric acid is fed to the reactor as
first ingredient. The amount depends on the
Appearance: liquid with straw-yellow colour batch capacity and on the concentration of the
General Formulae [Al2(OH)2.7 Cl3.3]n raw material. Alumina is fed to the reactor as
Al2O3 17 19 % second ingredient, under continuous stirring.
Cl- 21 22 % After completion of feeding the reactor system is
closed and heating is started.
Basicity 36 42 %
Specific Weight (20 C) 1.36 1.38 g/ml
The heating of the reactor is carried out in two
Viscosity (20 C) 40 60 cP
steps. Low pressure steam is used first, to avoid
pH (29 C) 0.4 1.2
thermal shock that may damage the internal
Solidification point - 10 C glass lining of the reactor.
The primary product resulting from the polym- As the reaction temperature is reached the po-
erisation process at standard reaction conditions lymerisation step starts under stirring and con-
has a content of 18-19 %. stant temperature. At the end of the reaction the
product is cooled again step wise with a warm
This product is adjusted to the commercial as- water circuit to avoid thermal shock.
say of 17 - 17.5% Al2O3 and sold as such for
most applications. The product is then fed by a high pressure
Polyaluminium Chloride 9 % Al2O3 pump to the filter-press. The filtered product is
transferred to a storage tank.
For drinking water treatment plants without units
for addition of silicates, fungicides or
polyelectrolytes preferably a PAC of 9 to 10%
Al2O3 is used. By adjustment of the assay it is
possible to change the size of the resulting
flocks and consequently the sedimentation
velocity. The corresponding PAC product has
also a high so called "Basicity".
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Using hydrochloric acid of 32 % a PAC of 18 % The estimated time from start of the engineering
Al2O3 will be obtained, with hydrochloric acid of to plant completion and operation is in the range
31 % a PAC of 17.7 % Al2O3. of 15 months.
EFFLUENTS
The process is not producing any liquid efflu-
ents. Acidic washing water from the filter press
etc. will be recycled to the process. Crude
polyaluminium chloride is filtered in a filter press,
where small amounts of solids are removed.
The quantity of the solids, mostly silicates, will
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