Dewatering for reduction of moisture content in sludge cake is one of the main procedure in sludge treatment processing. Through dehydration process, the volume of sludge cake are substantially decreased. It led efficiency improvement of further processing such as transport and disposal of sludge as well as drying cake could be utilized as solid refuse fuel. Microwave dryer is energy efficient process in comparison with thermal types. For these reason, we developed microwave dryer for real field applications. Firstly, with 4kW scale microwave dryer, operation conditions were optimized in terms of generator power, shape of drying champer, and height of microwave generator. Based on the results, 10kW scale microwave dryer was designed and manufactured successfully.

• Myung Seop Shin(한국산업기술시험원 환경융합기술센터)
• Yong-Woo Jeon(한국산업기술시험원 환경융합기술센터)
• Seohyeon Pak(한국산업기술시험원 환경융합기술센터)
• Hyun-Jung Kim(한국산업기술시험원 환경융합기술센터)