Characteristics of dissolved organic matter formed in aerobic and anaerobic digestion of excess activated sludge

Chemosphere ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 1022-1031 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haixia Du ◽  
Fusheng Li
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Dissolved Organic Matter ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Aerobic And Anaerobic

scholarly journals Comparison of the impacts of thermal pretreatment on waste activated sludge using aerobic and anaerobic digestion

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (8) ◽  
pp. 1772-1781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyungjun (Brian) Jo ◽  
Wayne Parker ◽  
Peiman Kianmehr
Keyword(s):  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Oxygen Demand ◽  
Waste Activated Sludge ◽  
Thermal Pretreatment ◽  
Decay Products ◽  
Anaerobic Biodegradability ◽  
Pretreatment Conditions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Aerobic And Anaerobic

Abstract A range of thermal pretreatment conditions were used to evaluate the impact of high pressure thermal hydrolysis on the biodegradability of waste activated sludge (WAS) under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. It was found that pretreatment did not increase the overall extent to which WAS could be aerobically biodegraded. Thermal pretreatment transformed the biodegradable fraction of WAS (XH) to readily biodegradable chemical oxygen demand (COD) (SB) (16.5–34.6%) and slowly biodegradable COD (XB) (45.8–63.6%). The impact of pretreatment temperature and duration on WAS COD fractionation did not follow a consistent pattern as changes in COD solubilization did not correspond to the observed generation of SB through pretreatment. The pretreated WAS (PWAS) COD fractionations determined from aerobic respirometry were employed in anaerobic modeling and it was concluded that the aerobic and anaerobic biodegradability of PWAS differed. It was found that thermal pretreatment resulted in as much as 50% of the endogenous decay products becoming biodegradable in anaerobic digestion. Overall, it was concluded that the COD fractionation that was developed based upon the aerobic respirometry was valid. However, it was necessary to implement a first-order decay process that reflected changes in the anaerobic biodegradability of the endogenous products through pretreatment.

scholarly journals Effects of sulfonamide antibiotics on digestion performance and microbial community during swine manure anaerobic digestion

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaona Wang ◽  
Kang Du ◽  
Rongfang Yuan ◽  
Huilun Chen ◽  
Fei Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Dissolved Organic Matter ◽  
Methane Production ◽  
Volatile Fatty Acids ◽  
High Throughput Sequencing ◽  
Batch Reactor ◽  
Inhibition Mechanism ◽  
Sulfonamide Antibiotics ◽  
High Concentration

The effects of four types of sulfonamide antibiotics (SAs), including sulfaquinoxaline, sulfamethoxazole, sulfamethoxydiazine and sulfathiazole, on the digestion performance during anaerobic digestion process were studied using a lab-scale anaerobic sequencing batch reactor, and the changes of the community structure in the presence of SAs were investigated with the help of high throughput sequencing. The results indicated that when SAs were added, the hydrolytic acidification process was inhibited, and the accumulation of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) was induced, resulting in the suppression of methane production. However, the inhibition mechanism of different SAs was quite different. The inhibitory effect of high concentration of SAs on the hydrolysis of solid particulate matter into dissolved organic matter followed the order of sulfaquinoxaline > sulfamethoxydiazine > sulfathiazole > sulfamethoxazole. SAs have obvious inhibitory effects on acidification and methanation of dissolved organic matter, especially sulfathiazole. The richness and the community composition of the microorganism including bacteria and archaea in the digestion system were affected by SAs. Under the effect of SAs, the relative abundance of many microorganisms is negatively correlated with methane production, among which Methanobrevibacter, a kind of Archaea, had the greatest influence on methane production.

Simultaneous Organic Matter Removal in a Cyclic Activated Sludge Reactor from Municipal Waste Water

2010 ◽  
Vol 113-116 ◽  
pp. 952-955
Author(s):  
Hong Wei Wang ◽  
Jian Huang ◽  
Xin Yu Wang ◽  
Xiao Hong Wu ◽  
Tie Dong Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Water ◽  
Organic Matter ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Municipal Waste ◽  
Nitrogen And Phosphorus ◽  
Nitrogen And Phosphorus Removal ◽  
Organic Matter Removal ◽  
Activated Sludge Reactor ◽  
Aerobic And Anaerobic ◽  
Degradation Ability

The aerobic and anaerobic cyclic activated sludge reactor of A/O process was separated into an A/O domestication segments and organic matter removal ability strengthen segments. In the A/O disposal system, organic carbon degradation, nitrogen and phosphorus removal from municipal waste water in reactor were investigated. Results showed that good performance of the A/O disposal system was achieved and the highest removal efficiencies of COD, TN and TP were 96%, 50% and 75%, respectively. When organic loadings varied from low to high, the removal ability increased and then the hybrid microbe in activated sludge degradation ability became strong. So the cyclic activated sludge was a useful method for eliminate organic matter removal from municipal waste water.

Characterization of sludges for predicting anaerobic digester performance

2008 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 721-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Jones ◽  
W. Parker ◽  
Z. Khan ◽  
S. Murthy ◽  
M. Rupke
Keyword(s):  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Waste Activated Sludge ◽  
Anaerobic Conditions ◽  
Modified Model ◽  
Primary Sludge ◽  
First Order ◽  
Decay Products ◽  
Aerobic And Anaerobic

Batch anaerobic digestion tests of primary sludge and waste activated sludge were conducted for a duration of 123 days to determine the ultimate degradability of the sludges. For primary sludges the inert fraction of the particulate COD that was predicted by the wastewater models could be employed to predict their biodegradability under anaerobic conditions. The degradation of waste activated sludge was adequately characterized for the first 60 days of digestion using a model that assumed equivalent biodegradability of particulate COD components under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. However after 60 days of anaerobic digestion it appeared that decay of the endogenous products was occurring. This could be described with a first order decay function with a coefficient of 0.0075 d−1. For continuous flow digesters operating at SRTs of 30–60 days, the predicted VSS destruction with the modified model was approximately 10% higher than that predicted on the basis of inert endogenous decay products.

scholarly journals The synergy of combined free nitrous acid and Fenton technology in enhancing anaerobic digestion of real sewage waste activated sludge

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Razieh Karimi ◽  
Seyed Mostafa Hallaji
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Methane Production ◽  
Nitrous Acid ◽  
Waste Activated Sludge ◽  
Free Nitrous Acid ◽  
Digestion Process ◽  
Treatment Technologies ◽  
Pre Treatment

Abstract Background Recently, free nitrous acid (FNA) pre-treatment of sewage waste activated sludge has been introduced as an economically attractive and environmentally friendly technique for enhancing methane production from the anaerobic digestion process. Fenton pre-treatment of sewage sludge, as an advanced oxidation process, has also been introduced as a powerful technique for methane improvement in a couple of studies. This study, for the first time, investigates the synergy of combined FNA and Fenton pre-treatment technologies in enhancing the methane production from the anaerobic digestion process and reducing waste sludge to be disposed of. Actual secondary waste activated sludge in laboratory-scale batch reactors was used to assess the synergistic effect of the pre-treatments. The mechanisms behind the methane enhancement were also put into perspective by measuring different microbial enzymes activity and solubilisation of organic matter. Result This study revealed that the combined pre-treatments release organic matter into the soluble phase significantly more than the bioreactors pre-treated with individual FNA and Fenton. For understanding the influence of pre-treatments on solubilisation of organic matter, soluble protein, soluble polysaccharide and soluble chemical oxygen demand (SCOD) were measured before and after the treatments and it was shown that they respectively increased by 973%, 33% and 353% after the treatments. Protease and cellulose activity, as the key constituents of the microbial community presenting in activated sludge, decreased considerably within the combined pre-treatments (42% and 32% respectively) and methane production enhanced by 43-69%. Furthermore, total solids and volatile solids destruction improved by 26% and 24% at the end of anaerobic digestion, which can reduce transport costs of sludge and improve the quality of sludge for application in farms and forests. Conclusions The results obtained from the experiments corroborate the synergic effect of the combined FNA and Fenton pre-treatment technologies in degrading the organic and microbial constituents in waste activated sludge, which improved methane production accordingly. This is of paramount importance because the total costs of wastewater treatment plants operation and greenhouse gas emission from sludge treatment and disposal processes would reduce considerably, which pave the way for the implementation of these technologies.

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