The amount of sewage sludge emission is gradually increasing every year. However, the Ocean dumping of sewage sludge was prohibited since 2012 by london convention 96 protocol. Therefore, ground disposal method for recycling organic waste or utilizing to energy technology was needed. The heat is generated when sewage sludge has decomposed with the aerobic microbes. In this study, the heat would be applied to dehydrate sewage sludge. The drying efficiency was evaluated according to Air Flow Rate(AFR) and the mixing proportion of the returned sludge. At the experiments used returned sludge Which was dried at 40% moisture content. As a result, the most high temperature was indicated when it mixed 30% and optimal AFR for maintaining aerobic condition was 200 mL/min.kg. During 14days of Biodrying, the highest temperature of reactor was 46℃ and maintained 5~7days are higher than 40℃. and also 18.8% of moisture was eliminated. These results show that using Biodrying to sewage sludge has economic potential compared to hot-air drying and can be one of the method to produce SRF with additional treatment.

The amount of sewage sludge that is emitted is gradually increasing every year. However, since 2012, because of the London Protocol, the oceanic dumping of sewage sludge has been prohibited. Therefore, for recycling organic waste, either the ground disposal method has to be used or technological solutions that develop energy from such waste have to be identified. Heat is generated when the sewage sludge has decomposed by aerobic microbes. In this study, to dehydrate sewage sludge, heat was applied and the drying efficiency was evaluated according to the air flow rate (AFR) and the proportional mixing of the returned sludge. For the experiments, returned sludge that was dried to 40% moisture content was used; consequently, the highest temperature was obtained when the moisture content was 30% and, for maintaining aerobic conditions, the optimal AFR was 200 ml/min·kg. During biodrying for 14 days, the highest temperature of reactor was 46℃, which was maintained at higher than 40℃ for 5-7 days; moreover, 18.8% of moisture was eliminated. These results show that using biodrying for treating sewage sludge has economic potential compared to hot-air drying; moreover, with additional treatment, biodrying can be one of the methods for producing Bio Solid Refuse Fuel (Bio-SRF).