The wet phosphoric acid contains more metal ion impurities such as calcium, magnesium and iron, and must be purified to produce phosphoric acid and phosphate products above industrial grade. In this paper, electrodialysis was used to concentrate and purify wet phosphoric acid in one step, and the application differences of five different commercial anion exchange membranes in electrodialysis purification of wet phosphoric acid were compared. Meanwhile, the effects of current density and solution flow rate on the electrodialysis performance were investigated, while voltage of the stack, phosphoric acid concentration in the cathode chamber and anode chamber, metal ion removal rate, current efficiency, and average energy consumption were used as evaluation indexes. The experimental results indicated that when AMI-7001 membrane was used, the current density was 40 mA/cm2, and the flow rate was 4.5 L/h, the removal rate of metal ions was more than 70%, and the energy consumption was less than 3.3 kW·h/kg. Electrodialysis was an effective method for concentration and purification of wet phosphoric acid solution, which was environmentally friendly, simple to operate, and has an important reference significance for concentration and purification of wet phosphoric acid.
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