Question

One method of removing phosphate from wastewater effluents is to precipitate it with aluminum sulfate. A plausible stoichiometry (but not exact because aluminum and phosphate can form many different chemical materials) is:

Answer 1

Answer: The equation is written below.

Explanation:

$2PO_4^{3-}(aq)+Al_2(SO_4)_3(aq)\rightarrow 2AlPO_4(s)+3SO_4^{2-}(aq)$

According to Stoichiometry of the reaction:

2 moles of phosphate ions reacts with 1 mole of aluminum sulfate to produce 2 moles of aluminum phosphate precipitate and 3 moles of sulfate ions.

Aluminum phosphate is an odorless and white crystalline solid

The chemical equation is written above.