Live Steam-Pretreatment and Anaerobic Digestion of Waste Activated Sludge

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (9) ◽  
pp. 546-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhedong Gao ◽  
Cunsheng Zhang ◽  
Haijia Su ◽  
Tianwei Tan
Keyword(s):  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Live Steam ◽  
Steam Pretreatment ◽  
Waste Activated Sludge

Occurrence, effect, and fate of residual microplastics in anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge: A state-of-the-art review

2021 ◽  
pp. 125035
Author(s):  
Zhang-Wei He ◽  
Wen-Jing Yang ◽  
Yong-Xiang Ren ◽  
Hong-Yu Jin ◽  
Cong-Cong Tang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Waste Activated Sludge

Modified ADM1 disintegration/hydrolysis structures for modeling batch thermophilic anaerobic digestion of thermally pretreated waste activated sludge

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (14) ◽  
pp. 3479-3492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Ramirez ◽  
Alexis Mottet ◽  
Hélène Carrère ◽  
Stéphane Déléris ◽  
Fabien Vedrenne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Waste Activated Sludge ◽  
Thermophilic Anaerobic Digestion

scholarly journals Experimental and mathematical characterisation of the rheological instability of concentrated waste activated sludge subject to anaerobic digestion

2018 ◽  
Vol 349 ◽  
pp. 318-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Wei ◽  
Qiuman Tan ◽  
Wim Uijttewaal ◽  
Jules B. van Lier ◽  
Merle de Kreuk
Keyword(s):  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Waste Activated Sludge

Low temperature thermo-chemical pretreatment of dairy waste activated sludge for anaerobic digestion process

2012 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 415-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Uma Rani ◽  
S. Adish Kumar ◽  
S. Kaliappan ◽  
Ick-Tae Yeom ◽  
J. Rajesh Banu
Keyword(s):  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Waste Activated Sludge ◽  
Chemical Pretreatment ◽  
Anaerobic Digestion Process ◽  
Digestion Process ◽  
Dairy Waste

Effects of thermochemical pretreatment on the anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge

1997 ◽  
Vol 35 (8) ◽  
pp. 209-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuzo Tanaka ◽  
Toshio Kobayashi ◽  
Ken-ichi Kamiyama ◽  
Ma. Lolita N. Signey Bildan
Keyword(s):  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Production Rate ◽  
Methane Production ◽  
Waste Activated Sludge ◽  
Batch Experiments ◽  
Industrial Wastewaters ◽  
Thermochemical Pretreatment ◽  
Chemical Heating ◽  
Methane Production Rate

Effects of pretreatment on the anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge (WAS) were investigated in terms of VSS solubilization and methane production by batch experiments. The methods of pretreatment studied are NaOH addition (chemical), heating (thermal) and heating with NaOH addition (thermochemical) to the domestic WAS and to the combined WAS from domestic, commercial and industrial wastewaters. The thermochemical pretreatment gave the best result among three methods in the combined WAS, i.e., the VSS was solubilized by 40-50% and the methane production increased by more than 200% over the control when the WAS was heated at 130°C for 5 minutes with the dose 0.3 g NaOH/g VSS. In the domestic WAS, the VSS solubilization rate was 70-80% but the increase of the methane production was about 30% after thermochemically pretreated. The domestic WAS consists of 41% protein, 25% lipid and 14% carbohydrate on COD basis, and the solubilization rate of protein, which is the largest constituent of the WAS, was 63% in the thermochemical pretreatment. Although the effect of the thermochemical pretreatment on the methane production was higher to the combined WAS than to the domestic WAS, the methane production rate was 21.9 ml CH4/g VSSWAS·day in the domestic WAS and 12.8 ml CH4/g VSSWAS·day in the combined WAS.

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 Enhancement of waste activated sludge anaerobic digestion by a novel chemical free acid/alkaline pretreatment using electrolysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (12) ◽  
pp. 2827-2831 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Charles ◽  
B. Ng ◽  
R. Cord-Ruwisch ◽  
L. Cheng ◽  
G. Ho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Treatment Time ◽  
Free Acid ◽  
Oxygen Demand ◽  
Waste Activated Sludge ◽  
Anode Chamber ◽  
Cathode Chamber ◽  
Exchange Membrane

Anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge (WAS) is relatively poor due to hydrolysis limitations. Acid and alkaline pretreatments are effective in enhancing hydrolysis leading to higher methane yields. However, chemical costs often prohibit full-scale application. In this study, 12 V two-chamber electrolysis using an anion exchange membrane alters sludge pH without chemical dosing. pH dropped from 6.9 to 2.5 in the anode chamber and increased to 10.1 in the cathode chamber within 15 h. The volatile suspended solids solubilisation of WAS was 31.1% in the anode chamber and 34.0% in the cathode chamber. As a result, dissolved chemical oxygen demand increased from 164 to 1,787 mg/L and 1,256 mg/L in the anode and cathode chambers, respectively. Remixing of sludge from the two chambers brought the pH back to 6.5, hence no chemical neutralisation was required prior to anaerobic digestion. Methane yield during anaerobic digestion at 20 d retention time was 31% higher than that of untreated sludge. An energy balance assessment indicated that the non-optimised process could approximately recover the energy (electricity) expended in the electrolysis process. With suitable optimisation of treatment time and voltages, significant energy savings would be expected in addition to the benefit of decreased sludge volume.

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