scholarly journals Understanding the impact of cationic polyacrylamide on anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge

2018 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 281-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongbo Wang ◽  
Xuran Liu ◽  
Guangming Zeng ◽  
Jianwei Zhao ◽  
Yiwen Liu ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (8) ◽  
pp. 1772-1781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyungjun (Brian) Jo ◽  
Wayne Parker ◽  
Peiman Kianmehr

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.


2010 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Novak ◽  
Chang Min Park

The addition of iron or aluminium into activated sludge basins for phosphorus removal is likely to impact both the efficiency of the anaerobic digestion process and the generation of odor-causing compounds following digestion and dewatering. In this study, the impact of iron and aluminium addition on digestion and odor-causing compounds was investigated by using batch digestion of combined primary and waste activated sludge. It was found that aluminium addition resulted in a decrease in volatile solids destruction by anaerobic digestion of approximately 2%. Of the 7 sludges tested, 5 showed a small increase in volatile solids destruction after iron addition. With regard to the generation of organic sulfur odors from the dewatered sludge cakes, both iron and aluminium reduced odor-causing gases except for one sludge that had already received iron for phosphorus control in the full-scale process. It appears that iron and aluminium addition will benefit odor control.


2021 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 110792
Author(s):  
Shuting Zeng ◽  
Jing Sun ◽  
Ziwei Chen ◽  
Qiuxiang Xu ◽  
Wei Wei ◽  
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2021 ◽  
pp. 125035
Author(s):  
Zhang-Wei He ◽  
Wen-Jing Yang ◽  
Yong-Xiang Ren ◽  
Hong-Yu Jin ◽  
Cong-Cong Tang ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (14) ◽  
pp. 3479-3492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Ramirez ◽  
Alexis Mottet ◽  
Hélène Carrère ◽  
Stéphane Déléris ◽  
Fabien Vedrenne ◽  
...  

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