Electro-dewatering of wastewater sludge: influence of the operating conditions and their interactions effects |
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Authors: | Mahmoud Akrama Olivier Jérémy Vaxelaire Jean Hoadley Andrew F A |
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Affiliation: | a Laboratoire de Thermique Energétique et Procédés (EAD 1932), ENSGTI, rue Jules Ferry, BP 7511, 64075 Pau, France b Department of Chemical Engineering, Building 35, Clayton Campus, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia |
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Abstract: | Electric field-assisted dewatering, also called electro-dewatering (EDW), is a technology in which a conventional dewatering mechanism such a pressure dewatering is combined with electrokinetic effects to realize an improved liquid/solids separation, to increase the final dry solids content and to accelerate the dewatering process with low energy consumption compared to thermal drying. The application of these additional fields can be applied to either or both dewatering stages (filtration and/or compression), or as a pre-or post-treatment of the dewatering process. In this study, the performance of the EDW on wastewater sludge was investigated. Experiments were carried out on a laboratory filtration/compression cell, provided with electrodes, in order to apply an electrical field. The chosen operating conditions pressure (200-1200 kPa) and voltage (10-50 V) are sufficient to remove a significant proportion of the water that cannot be removed using mechanical dewatering technologies alone. A response surface methodology (RSM) was used to evaluate the effects of the processing parameters of EDW on (i) the final dry solids content, which is a fundamental dewatering parameter and an excellent indicator of the extent of EDW and (ii) the energy consumption calculated for each additional mass of water removed. A two-factor central composite design was used to establish the optimum conditions for the EDW of wastewater sludge. Experiments showed that the use of an electric field combined with mechanical compression requires less than 10 and 25% of the theoretical thermal drying energy for the low and moderate voltages cases, respectively. |
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Keywords: | Dewatering Electro-dewatering Wastewater sludge Response surface methodology |
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