Development and utilization status on the phosphogypsum

With the rapid development of phosphate fertilizer industry,its by-product—phosphogypsum has become the difficult problem of the environment protection on the development of phosphate fertilizer.This article describes the origin of the phosphogypsum and its characteristics,and introduces the present situation and the existent advantages and disadvantages of phosphogypsum from a wider range fields of applying phosphogypsum and the hot fields of developing,utilizing and studying phosphorous.