Mesophilic and thermophilic digestion of thickened waste activated sludge: A comparative study
This paper presents an experimental study over 204 days on anaerobic degradation of thickened waste activated sludge (TWAS) from a municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP).The experiments were conducted under thermophilic (55 ℃) and mesophilic (35 ℃) condition,respectively,by using the semi-continuous flow completely mixed reactors.The influent total solids (TS),hydraulic retention time (HRT) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) loading levels were around 4％,30 days and 1.67 kg-CODCr·m-3·d-1 ,respectively.During the opration period,the thermophilic anaerobic digestion process (TADP) and the mesophilic anaerobic digestion process (MADP) were stable and well-functioned without ammonia inhibition.Particulate organic matters reduction of TADP was superior to that of MADP.This result implies that TADP has higher sludge reduction efficiency than MADP.According to the simulated chemical formula of TWAS,C5.85H9.75O3.96N,and the stoichiometric equation,the methane content and the ammonia yield in the anaerobic process could be calculated,which were consistent with the experimental results.The methane yield of TADP was a little higher than that of MADP.The statistical mean values of methane content for TADP and MADP were 60.97％ and 62.38％,respectively.According to paired t-test,there was a significant difference in methane content between TADP and MADP( a =0.01,n=62).Compared with the mesophilic digested sludge,the dewaterability of thermophilic digested sludge was lower.
Anaerobic digestion Thermophilic Mesophilic Thickened waste activated sludge comparison
Yong-Zhi Chi Yu-You Li Min Ji Hong Qiang Heng-Wei Deng Ya-Peng Wu
Department of Environmental and Municipal Engineering,Tianjin Key Laboratory of Water Quality Scienc Department of Environmental and Municipal Engineering,Tianjin Key Laboratory of Water Quality Scienc School of Environmental Science and Technology,Tianjin University,Tianjin 300072,China Graduate School of Environmental Studies,Tohoku University,Sendai 980-8579,Japan
国际会议
哈尔滨
英文
450-458
2010-07-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）