城市污水处理厂剩余污泥热值估算方法研究

污水处理厂剩余污泥所具有的热值是衡量其能量利用价值的重要指标。目前的热值分析方法检测步骤繁琐、成本高,在污水处理厂的实际应用中有一定的困难。以北京市5座污水处理厂的剩余污泥为研究对象,通过测量污泥样品的挥发性固体(VS)与总固体(TS)含量和污泥的热值,发现污泥的VS/TS与污泥热值具有良好的线性关系,由此确定出估算污泥热值的计算公式。并采用多座污水处理厂的污泥数据对公式的适用性进行验证。对比分析表明,该公式能较准确地估算污泥热值,且其操作和所需仪器设备更为简单,能够根据污水处理厂日常对VS和TS的分析值快速估算污泥的热值。     

重庆市唐家沱污水处理厂工艺设计及其污泥的处理与处置

唐家沱污水处理工程总规模40万m3/d,分三期实施,是重庆市主城区的两大核心排水工程之一.污水处理厂产生的污泥采用中温厌氧二级消化-干化-卫生填埋的处理处置路线.介绍了污水处理厂污水处理部分和污泥处理部分的相关设计情况,并着重介绍三期扩建工程中针对一、二期工程存在的问题所做的改进措施.     

昆明市污泥处理处置现状及对策研究

城镇生活污水处理厂在削减水污染负荷的同时也会产生大量污泥,如果不能妥善处理处置,会造成二次污染和资源浪费.目前,昆明市共有38座城镇生活污水处理厂,日产污泥1059 t,其中主城区污泥产生量占全市的77.8％.昆明市污泥处理处置经历了从简易堆存到资源化利用的规范化过程.以昆明市为例,分析当代城市污泥处理处置技术路径的选择,并进行污泥管理现状分析和处理处置成本测算,提出进一步完善污泥处理处置工作的建议.     

青浦区城镇污水处理厂污泥处理与处置方式的探讨

本文在简要介绍城镇污水处理厂几种污泥处置典型工艺的基础上，结合青浦区污泥处置现状和存在的问题，通过分析已投入运营的城镇污水处理厂污泥特性，提出采用焚烧工艺作为青浦区城镇污水处理厂污泥处置方式。     

我国污水处理厂污泥含砂特征及成因调研

对我国南方某市7座污水处理厂脱水污泥固体组成进行调研，并从污水处理厂进水水质、砂的粒度分布、沉砂池效率及二级处理有机负荷角度进行污泥泥质成因分析。调研结果表明，该市污水处理厂污泥有机质含量整体较低，砂含量偏高，并随季节有一定规律变化。污水处理厂进水含砂量高、砂的粒度小，沉砂池效率低，二级处理污泥有机负荷低是污泥有机质含量低、含砂量高的主要原因。     

白龙港污水处理厂生物处理污泥产量分析与预测

准确了解城市污水处理厂的污泥产量,不仅对污水处理厂的运行管理有指导意义,也有利于后续污泥的处理与处置。对上海白龙港污水处理厂生物处理工艺污泥产量的设计值、实际运行值进行计算,分析不同污泥产量计算方法的特点。并对重新启用初沉池后污泥产量的变化进行了详细的测算和分析,结果表明,重新启用初沉池后污泥产量比超越初沉运行时有所减少,减轻了后续污泥处置负荷。     

浙江省“十二五”城镇污水处理厂污泥处置规划介绍

从浙江省城镇污水处理厂污泥处置现状问题入手,对污泥主要安全指标进行了对比分析,按照国家城镇污水处理厂污泥处置原则与技术要点,结合实际情况选择了浙江省城镇污水处理厂污泥处置方式,根据浙江省"十二五"城镇污水处理厂污泥处置规划要求,预测了浙江省城镇污水处理厂污泥处置规模和投资,并提出了相应的对策建议。     

污泥膨胀控制对策的应用实例

介绍了以水产品加工废水为主要原水的某污水处理厂控制污泥膨胀的情况。经过分析认为污泥负荷的增大是造成该污水处理厂污泥膨胀的主要原因 ,并采取了提高污泥回流比、降低污泥排放量、加大曝气量、加强指标监控等措施 ,从而有效地控制了污泥膨胀问题。     

北京高碑店污水处理厂污泥膨胀的研究及控制对策

通过分析高碑店污水处理厂发生污泥膨胀前后的运行参数及污泥膨胀可能的原因,认为此次污泥膨胀主要由于污泥负荷偏低引起的中度丝状菌膨胀,通过调节泥龄、污泥负荷、溶解氧等运行参数成功地控制了污泥膨胀.     

北京市高碑店污水处理厂污泥膨胀的研究及控制对策

通过分析高碑店污水处理厂发生污泥膨胀前后的运行参数及污泥膨胀可能的原因 ,认为此次污泥膨胀主要由于污泥负荷偏低引起的中度丝状菌膨胀 ,通过调节泥龄、污泥负荷、溶解氧等运行参数成功地控制了污泥膨胀     

Treatment of 14 sludge types from wastewater treatment plants using bench and pilot thermal hydrolysis

A total of 14 types of sludge from household sewage, mixture of domestic and industrial wastewater, and industrial and oil wastewater treatment plants were selected to evaluate the effectiveness and adaptability of thermal hydrolysis pre-treatment. Organic solubilization, dewatering improvement, volume reduction, high-strength filtrate biodegradation, and dewatered sludge incineration were investigated using bench and pilot thermal hydrolysis experiments (170 °C/60 min). Results showed that sludge types significantly affected the treatment effects. Organic content has a primary influence on thermal effects. The relationship between suspended solid (SS) solubilization and raw sludge organic content was linear with an R(2) of 0.73. The relationship between raw sludge organic content and treated sludge dewatering was linear with an R(2) of 0.86 and 0.65 for pilot and bench pre-treatments, respectively. Household and oil sludge possessed incineration possibilities with high heat value. Industrial and oil sludge filtrate was unsuitable for digestion to recover bioenergy.     

Characteristics of WWTP sludge after drying in greenhouse for agricultural purposes

The sludge generated by sewage treatment which meets regulatory standards can be used in agriculture. With this understanding, the focus of this study is the evaluation of the agricultural characteristics and inorganic substances in excess activated sludge, which was subjected to drying in a greenhouse. The variables (factor) evaluated during the drying process were: type of sludge (digested or not digested), addition of lime to the sludge, and the physical layout and rotation of sludge in the greenhouse. The parameters monitored for this assessment were moisture, volatile solids and pH. The greenhouse cover and sides were made of translucent plastic to allow the penetration of solar radiation and prevent water from entering. A impermeable floor was used. The sludge was generated in sewage treatment plants located in the metropolitan region of Grande Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil. The solar drying of wastewater sludge in a greenhouse presented satisfactory results.     

Biotechnology of intensive aerobic conversion of sewage sludge and food waste into fertilizer.

Biotechnology for intensive aerobic bioconversion of sewage sludge and food waste into fertilizer was developed. The wastes were treated in a closed reactor under controlled aeration, stirring, pH, and temperature at 60 degrees C, after addition of starter bacterial culture Bacillus thermoamylovorans. The biodegradation of sewage sludge was studied by decrease of volatile solids (VS), content of organic carbon and autofluorescence of coenzyme F420. The degradation of anaerobic biomass was faster than biodegradation of total organic matter. The best fertilizer was obtained when sewage sludge was thermally pre-treated, mixed with food waste, chalk, and artificial bulking agent. The content of volatile solid and the content of organic carbon decreased at 24.8% and 13.5% of total solids, respectively, during ten days of bioconversion. The fertilizer was a powder with moisture content of 5%. It was stable, and not toxic for the germination of plant seeds. Addition of 1.0 to 1.5% of this fertilizer to the subsoil increased the growth of different plants tested by 113 to 164%. The biotechnology can be applied in larger scale for the recycling of sewage sludge and food wastes in Singapore.     

Application of heat shock protein assay and proteome assay to water from wastewater treatment plant.

In this study we applied bioassay using Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells with a heat shock protein (HSP) 47 promoter to the effluent of the wastewater treatment plants in Sapporo and we observed the statistically significant HSP production. This implied the effluent contained some organic matter which can stress the CHO cells. To investigate the possible causes of the toxicity of the effluent, we applied the assay to the rejected water from the sludge treatment plant, the mixtures of sewage and rejected water. The evolution of HSP production during the aerobic decay process and thickening process of sludge was also examined. These assay results showed that dissolved microbial products generated and/or released from activated sludge during its decay process in the aeration tank and during thickening and dewatering process in the sludge treatment train contributed to develop HSP production. The proteomics analysis was also applied to the effluent and detected the production of elongation factor 1beta. This result implies that the effluent from wastewater treatment plants may cause changes in cell proteins involved in allergic reaction.     

Recovery of phosphorus and aluminium from sewage sludge ash by a new wet chemical elution process (SESAL-Phos-recovery process)

The potential of a new wet chemical process for phosphorus and aluminium recovery from sewage sludge ash by sequential elution with acidic and alkaline solutions has been investigated: SESAL-Phos (sequential elution of sewage sludge ash for aluminium and phosphorus recovery). Its most innovative aspect is an acidic pre-treatment step in which calcium is leached from the sewage sludge ash. Thus the percentage of alkaline soluble aluminium phosphates is increased from 20 to 67%. This aluminium phosphate is then dissolved in alkali. Subsequently, the dissolved phosphorus is precipitated as calcium phosphate with low heavy metal content and recovered from the alkaline solution. Dissolved aluminium is recovered and may be reused as a precipitant in wastewater treatment plants.     

The role of iron and aluminium in digestion and odor formation.

The role of iron and aluminium in determining volatile solids reduction and odors from anaerobically digested, dewatered sludge cakes was evaluated from data collected from a variety of wastewater treatment plants. It was found that volatile solids reduction generally increased as the iron content of the sludge increased. It was also observed that odors increased with increasing iron. No correlation with aluminium or divalent cations was found. Based on these data it appears that the volatile solids reduction by anaerobic digestion is not useful for predicting the odors from anaerobically digested sludges.     

Fate of nonylphenol polyethoxylates and nonylphenoxy acetic acids in an anaerobic digestion process for sewage sludge treatment.

Many environmental problems caused by endocrine disruptors (EDs) have been reported. It is reported that EDs flow into sewage treatment plants, and it has been pointed out that these may be shifted from the wastewater treatment process to the sludge treatment process. Little is known about the fate of EDs accumulated in sewage sludge, so we carried out a study to clarify the fate of EDs in sewage sludge treatment processes, especially in an anaerobic digestion process. In this study, nonylphenol (NP) was selected as a target ED. Nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPnEO) or nonylphenoxy acetic acids (NPnEC), which were the precursor of NP, were added to an anaerobic digestion process, and mass balance was investigated. The following results were obtained from the anaerobic digestion experiments. (1) NP1EO was injected to an anaerobic digestion testing apparatus that was operated at a retention time of approximately 28 d and a temperature of 35 degrees C with thickened sludge sampled from an actual wastewater treatment plant. Approximately 40% of the injected NP1EO was converted to NP. (2) NP1EC was injected to an anaerobic digestion testing apparatus with thickened sludge. As a result, almost all injected NP1EC was converted to NP. When NP2EC was injected, NP2EC was not converted to NP until the 20th day.     

Potentials and limits of anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge: energy self-sufficient municipal wastewater treatment plant?

Anaerobic digestion is the only energy-positive technology widely used in wastewater treatment. Full-scale data prove that the anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge can produce biogas that covers a substantial amount of the energy consumption of a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). In this paper, we discuss possibilities for improving the digestion efficiency and biogas production from sewage sludge. Typical specific energy consumptions of municipal WWTPs per population equivalent are compared with the potential specific production of biogas to find the required/optimal digestion efficiency. Examples of technological measures to achieve such efficiency are presented. Our findings show that even a municipal WWTP with secondary biological treatment located in a moderate climate can come close to energy self-sufficiency. However, they also show that such self-sufficiency is dependent on: (i) the strict optimization of the total energy consumption of the plant, and (ii) an increase in the specific biogas production from sewage sludge to values around 600 L per kg of supplied volatile solids.     

Application of the IWA anaerobic digestion model (ADM1) for simulating full-scale anaerobic sewage sludge digestion.

A steady-state implementation of the IWA Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 (ADM1) has been applied to the anaerobic digesters in two wastewater treatment plants. The two plants have a wastewater treatment capacity of 76,000 and 820,000 m3/day, respectively, with approximately 12 and 205 dry metric tons sludge fed to digesters per day. The main purpose of this study is to compare the ADM1 model results with full-scale anaerobic digestion performance. For both plants, the prediction of the steady-state ADM1 implementation using the suggested physico-chemical and biochemical parameter values was able to reflect the results from the actual digester operations to a reasonable degree of accuracy on all parameters. The predicted total solids (TS) and volatile solids (VS) concentration in the digested biosolids, as well as the digester volatile solids destruction (VSD), biogas production and biogas yield are within 10% of the actual digester data. This study demonstrated that the ADM1 is a powerful tool for predicting the steady-state behaviour of anaerobic digesters treating sewage sludges. In addition, it showed that the use of a whole wastewater treatment plant simulator for fractionating the digester influent into the ADM1 input parameters was successful.