Organic ammonium compositions and methods of their use and making

A process for producing an ammonium salt composition from a liquid organic waste stream comprising ammonium, the process comprising the steps of:

• (a) providing a liquid organic waste stream comprising dissolved ammonium (ammonium waste stream),
• (b) separating biogas from the ammonium waste stream to yield debiogased ammonium waste stream, wherein the biogas comprises one or a plurality of gases selected from:
• methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2), hydrogen sulfide, (H2S) and hydrogen (H2),
• (c) removing solids from the ammonium waste stream to yield solids-depleted ammonium wastewater and isolated solids,
• (d) stripping ammonia gas from the solids-depleted ammonium wastewater by a process of:
• (i) heating the solids-depleted ammonium wastewater to a temperature between 50° to 90° C., and
• (ii) distilling the ammonia gas released from the heated solids-depleted ammonium wastewater through a distillation column using a downflow of the ammonium wastewater and upward stripping gas to yield separated ammonia gas and deammonified wastewater,
• (e) delivering the separated ammonia gas to an ammonium scrubber comprising a bottom inlet gas port and a top vent gas port, and
• (f) scrubbing ammonium from the ammonia gas in a packed bed vessel to yield an aqueous ammonium salt solution and a vent gas by a process of presenting an acid solution into the packed bed vessel which traverses in a first direction through the packed bed vessel countercurrent to ammonia gas delivered to the bottom of the packed bed vessel,
• wherein said ammonia gas traverses through the packed bed vessel in a second direction,
• wherein the first direction and second directions are oriented in opposite directions, and
• wherein the biogas produced in step (b) is further processed into sulfuric acid by a process comprising:
• (X) delivering the biogas to a biological sulfur scrubber,
• (Y) adding a gas comprising air and/or oxygen to the biogas or sulfur scrubber vessel, and
• (Z) scrubbing H2S from the biogas using an aqueous stripping solution to form an aqueous sulfuric acid solution and desulfurized biogas.