Abstract:
The influence of inorganic phosphorus on ash fusion characteristics of sewage sludge and coal were investigated by ash fusion temperature (AFT) detector and X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and the transformation of containing phosphate minerals of blended ashes with different temperatures between crystal and amorphous were explored using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). For the ash sample with high contents of Al
2O
3, which has higher AFT, raising content of phosphorus significantly results in a reduced ash fusion point, in particular it is lowered by 126℃ at 0-4% P
2O
5 content. But it has little effect on ash with high alkaline content. Aluminum phosphate (AlPO
4) crystals is the major phosphor containing minerals in low temperature ashes, witch react with calcium minerals (CaSO
4) and hematite (Fe
2O
3) to form Ca
3(PO
4)
2 crystal and (Fe
2O
3)
0.252(P
2O
5)
0.748 glass phase along with increasing temperature. Meanwhile, (Fe
2O
3)
0.252(P
2O
5)
0.748 in glass phase increases with an increase in phosphorus content, which may be the primary cause of AFT decreasing.