Skip to main content
ProcessOpen data

Acidulation/digestion of phosphate rock

68006dbe-f343-423c-92cf-30178d745e57@01.01.000

Citation
Versioned record

TianGong LCA Platform, dataset: Acidulation/digestion of phosphate rock, version 01.01.000, identifier 68006dbe-f343-423c-92cf-30178d745e57@01.01.000, available at https://portal.tiangong.earth/en/process/68006dbe-f343-423c-92cf-30178d745e57@01.01.000

Scope & method

Scope and context
Scope & method

Wet-process attack of prepared phosphate rock with sulfuric acid and water producing phosphoric acid and calcium sulfate (phosphogypsum) and associated fluoride species (e.g., HF) as described for wet-process phosphoric acid production (Rutherford et al. 1994; Belboom et al. 2015). Central Prayon (di-hemihydrate) is the selected configuration.

Functional unit
Scope & method

1 kg