Recycling water and sludge disposal efficiency in China's sewage treatment industry

Author(s):  
Xiao‐Ning Li ◽  
Ying Feng ◽  
Yung‐Ho Chiu ◽  
Tai‐Yu Lin ◽  
Shih‐Yung Chiu

2011 ◽  
Vol 183-185 ◽  
pp. 1417-1422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Sheng Cao ◽  
Xue Jing Meng ◽  
Xue Zheng Meng

With the booming construction of sewage treatment plants aiming at environmental protection, China has to face an emerging urgent task to address the sludge treatment and disposal problem. However there is a big controversy in China about the sludge treatment and disposal strategies. Some scientists suggest incinerating, while others insist on landfilling. In this paper, from the perspective of sustainable development and cyclic economy, a detailed analysis of nutrients cycle mainly related to nitrogen and phosphate before and after industrialization was made and a view that sludge should go back to soils to re-establish a sound nutrients cycle was put forward. Then the feasibility for sludge recycle to soils was discussed and some land application methods for sludge were introduced. At last, a successful case of producing compounded fertilizer from dewatered sludge in Northeast China was described in detail.



Ecotoxicology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
pp. 1849-1857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalel Belhaj ◽  
Khaled Athmouni ◽  
Bouthaina Jerbi ◽  
Monem Kallel ◽  
Habib Ayadi ◽  
...  


2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Bifan He ◽  
Guangjin Wang

Abstract With the rapid development of urbanization, the amount of urban sewage treatment is increasing. Waste activated sludge (WAS) is a by-product of sewage treatment, and its output is increasing year by year. How to properly handle WAS is related to the sustainable development of the sewage treatment industry. The production of ceramsite from WAS is an effective way to realize the utilization of sludge. This paper comprehensively describes the use of WAS as raw material, adding clay, cement, glass powder, shale, coal gangue, river sediment, pulverized fly ash and other auxiliary materials (AM) to produce sintered sewage sludge ceramsite and non-sintered sludge ceramsite. This paper analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the process of making ceramsite from WAS. The research points out the development prospect of ceramsite from WAS.



2015 ◽  
Vol 733 ◽  
pp. 334-337
Author(s):  
Ang Li ◽  
Li Na Sun

By aerobic composting bin type of sewage treatment plant sludge composting, through periodic sampling, research composting process temperature, moisture content, PH value changes and study the changes in compost maturity parameters of the DH. The results show that the compost temperature increased rapidly in the early rise in the first two days when fast to 50 degrees Celsius, in the tenth day decreased to room temperature; moisture content than the original sludge reduced by 40 percent to compost indicators; PH by reaction initial 6.2, and gradually becomes neutral and alkaline 7.8 biased. Experiments show that after aerobic sludge composting in temperature, moisture content, PH value terms have been reached sludge disposal requirements.



2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Echo Leong ◽  
Alex Kwan ◽  
Priscilla Yuen

At present, all dewatered sewage sludge generated by sewage treatment works (STW) is disposed of at landfills. This current practice of sludge disposal at landfill is not sustainable from both environmental and technical perspectives. The Hong Kong sludge contains high content of chloride due to use of seawater flushing in most of the Hong Kong areas and Hong Kong is a densely populated city. This unique condition has limited its selection of the alternative sludge treatment technology. The Sludge Treatment Facilities (STF) adopting fluidized bed incineration technology is a sustainable alternative for sludge disposal in Hong Kong. The design capacity of the STF is 2000 wet tonnes per day. The STF will be implemented under a Design-Build-and-Operate contract arrangement with a contractual operation period of 15 years and is scheduled to be commissioned by 2012.



1990 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-108
Author(s):  
Norman D. Looker ◽  
Edward .A. McBean ◽  
Grahame J. Farquhar

Abstract A comparison of costs of implementing an advanced wastewater treatment system for a cadmium plating plant, versus the sludge disposal costs of the sewage treatment plant to which the plating plant is discharging its effluent, is described. An economic analysis spreadsheet approach using Lotus 1-2-3 is employed. A case study application demonstrates for overall society net benefit that it is cost-effective to initiate pretreatment at electroplating facilities which allows a municipal facility to dispose of its sludge on agricultural land rather than be required for landfilling. Sensitivity analyses to market interest rate, sludge production, sludge disposal fees and drag-out rates are explored.



2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingcheng Xu ◽  
Li Ping ◽  
Haihua Cao ◽  
Wei Liu ◽  
Yunhui Gu ◽  
...  

Municipal sewage sludge (MSS) disposal is an urgent issue in China with the continuous growth of sewage treatment capacity. Among various disposal methods, co-processing of MSS in cement kilns has been one of the most promising disposal methods in recent years. The present situation of sewage treatment and sludge disposal, the development of co-processing MSS in a cement kiln, and main disposal routes in China were discussed in this study. The results indicated that China had paid considerable attention to the technology and released correlative policies in the past few years. There were about 35 co-processing projects built in China, all of which were limited by construction scale and pollutant emissions. Due to differences in construction methods and economic conditions, China’s co-processing projects mainly employed three routes—direct addition to a transition chamber, addition to a precalciner after direct thermal drying, and addition to a precalciner after indirect drying. Summarizing and analyzing the characteristics of MSS co-processing would facilitate its development in China and similar regions.



2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Sniezhkin Yu. ◽  
Zh. Petrova ◽  
V. Paziuk ◽  
Yu. Novikova

In sewage treatment plants, sludge is formed during wastewater treatment, in addition to treated water. They are dumped on silt sites, which occupy large areas and almost all overcrowding. The content of large amounts of minerals and toxic substances in sediments leads to the deterioration of underwater waters and land, which in turn leads to the deterioration of ecology and life in Ukraine. An urgent task in Ukraine is to create a comprehensive processing of sludge, which includes economic, technological, social and environmental aspects. The main methods of sludge disposal are use in agriculture, landfilling, incineration and dumping into the sea or ocean. The country is gradually trying to abandon the burial. European Union countries also process sludge aerobically and anaerobically. During these processes, components of organo-mineral fertilizers are created that can be used in agriculture. As fertilizers, sludge is composted, stabilized and pasteurized. Combustion of sludge allows to obtain a substitute for coal and oil. To increase the heat of combustion and improve combustion parameters to sludge sludge add coal, biomass. Low-temperature pyrolysis of sewage sludge and household waste, which allows to obtain "crude oil". One of the methods is processing in biogas plants to obtain both biogas and environmentally friendly fertilizers. To increase the efficiency of treatment and reduction of sludge disposal of used stagnation-ments vermiculture. Analysis of the literature allows us to conclude that there are methods of disposal of sludge, which have become widespread in various countries around the world, such as fertilizers, alternative fuels, landfills and others. When disposing of sludge, it is possible to produce biogas, electricity and heat, which reduces energy costs for the process.



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