The invention relates to a
phosphate-enriched, heavy-
metal depleted granular
fertilizer from at least one inorganic secondary
phosphate that is produced in a double-strand method. According to the method, a
raw material dispersion is supplied to process strand A and to process strand B by either producing the
raw material dispersion in process step a) from at least one inorganic secondary
phosphate and at least one
reagent and supplying the
raw material dispersion so produced to process strand A and B separately, or first separating the inorganic secondary phosphate in process step a, a'), producing two raw material dispersions (comprising each a partial amount of the at least one inorganic secondary phosphate and at least one
reagent) separately from each other and supplying these separately produced raw material dispersions to process strand A and B, wherein the
liquid phase content of the raw material dispersion is greater 30% and the incubation time between the inorganic secondary phosphate and the
reagent is between 1 to 100 minutes, wherein process strand A comprises the following process steps, i) adding a heavy-
metal precipitating agent during the production of the raw material dispersion and / or during the incubation time and / or after the incubation time, j) separating part of the phosphate-containing
liquid phase of the raw material dispersion that is low in heavy
metal and removing the remaining heavy-metal containing
filter cake from the process, k) precipitating phosphate from the phosphate-containing
liquid phase, l) separating the precipitated phosphate and returning the separated liquid phase to process step a) to produce a raw material dispersion, wherein process step B comprises the following process steps m) separating part of the liquid phase of the raw material dispersion, n) producing a mixture from at least part of the precipitated phosphate produced in process strand A and at least part of the remaining raw material dispersion with reduced liquid phase from process step f) and granulating and / or extruding the mixture so produced, wherein the produced granular and / or extruded material can be dried or coated, and removing the produced heavy-metal depleted granular
fertilizer from the process, o) returning the liquid phase separated in process step f) in order to produce a raw material dispersion in analogy to process step a) and / or supplying it to process step g), wherein
heavy metals can be at least partially removed from the liquid phase separated in process step f) and these
heavy metals can be removed from the process previously, and repeating process steps a) to h).