The amount of sewage treatment has been increasing year by year as the small and medium sized cities grow in Korea. Besides, the treatment of sludge has been more significant owing to the total ban on disposal of organic sludge in a landfill since April 2004 and ocean dumping of organic waste since December 2013. In this research, we studied the drying characteristics of sewage sludge by indirect heating device using thermal oil. The indirect heating device operated in a batch for 16 hours according to the variation of drying temperature between 100 and 200oC and the initial input weight of each type of sewage sludge was equally 60 kg. As a result, the moisture content in raw, excess and mixed sludge became lower than 10% under 14 hours at 160oC. The average water loss rate of raw, excess and mixed sludge is 0.436 g-wet/ min, 0.362 g-wet/min and 0.367 g-wet/min respectively at this stage. Therefore, the raw sludge can be dried well, using indirect heating device in sewage treatment plant. Also, it is better to dry raw sludge or excess sludge alone than mixed sludge because each type of sludge does not make synergistic effect but counter effect when they are together.

The aim of this paper is to compare the characteristics of the T-P removal from synthesized municipal wastewater by electro-coagulation using cylindrical Al and Fe electrode as anode. For this purpose, a concentric circle type electrolysis reactor was used and the operating conditions for T-P removal from synthesized wastewater are as follows; potential 10 V, electrolyte 0.03% NaCl, initial T-P concentration 1.0 ~ 6.0 mg/L and flow rate 1.0 ~ 5.0 L/min. From the experimental results, T-P concentration of treated wastewater was decreased to less than 0.2 mg/L enough to discharge standard and Al electrode showed performance than Fe electrode for T-P removal by electro-coagulation. Optimal conditions for T-P removal to less than 0.15 mg/L which is 75% of discharge standard for large scale municipal wastewater plant (capacity higher than 500 m3/day) were obtained as follows; flow rate 2.503 L/min, and 2.337 L/min, HRT 1.059 min, 1.134 min, for Al and Fe electrode, respectively. Consumed mass of Al and Fe were of 3.76 times and 8.90 times respectively, were obtained to removed T-P at optimal conditions with potential 10 V, and 0.03% NaCl as electrolyte.

This study has cross checked the change of internal sludge-recycle in Anaerobic-Digestion, and researched about not only the improvement of Bio-gas production from the digested sludge but also the efficient method of sludge minimization. Ultimate object of the study is to reduce the amount of sludge by the improved efficiency of contact with the organic-matter and the microbes in Anaerobic-Digestion. The sludge-recycle fluidized sludge layer and raised the activity of the sludge, the optimal sludge-recycle ratio, VS and COD removal ratio were 1,000%, 28.2% and 27.7%, respectively. Through these results of this study, it may be of use to treat waste sludge by the sludge-recycle ratio in terms of minimization and circulation of resources.

The purpose of this study was to improve low digestibility in anaerobic digestion facility of the sewage treatment plant. To perform this research, sludge digestion and digestion gas purification facilities in sewage treatment plant was applied. In the result of this study, it was very effective for sludge reduction from the improvement of digestive efficiency. In addition, it was confirmed that high purity CH4 (methane) was produced. This results can be useful as basic data to improve the low digestibility in anaerobic digestion processes.

활성슬러지 공정의 생물학적 반응조 및 2차 침전지 설계와 관련해서 정상상태 설계식(Ekama et al., 1986; WRC, 1984) 및 1-D flux theory 설계식(Ekama et al., 1997)을 사용하여 슬러지 농도에 따라 두 가지 공정을 일괄적으로 설계하였다. 또한, 슬러지 농도에 따른 생물학적 반응조 및 2차 침전지 크기 변화를 도식화하고, 유입수 성상이나 슬러지 침강성, 환경 및 운전조건 그리고 첨두유량이 각 공정의 크기결정에 미치는 영향을 평가하였다. 먼저 유입수의 특성과 관련하여 난분해성 용해성 물질(fs,us)은 반응조 크기 결정에 큰 영향이 없었지만, 난분해성 입자성 물질(fs,up), 무기 고형물(fi) 및 유기물 강도(Sti)의 영향은 크게 나타났다. 운전인자인 Sludge Retention Time(SRT)의 경우, 슬러지 생산량과 관련되므로 반응조 크기결정에 역시 큰 영향을 미쳤다. 2차 침전지의 설계요소인 Sludge Volume Index(SVI) 및 첨두유량이 커질수록 2차 침전지에 수리학적 부하가 커지게 되어, 2차 침전지가 크게 설계되어야 했다. 본 설계과정에서는, 온도 변화가 미치는 영향은 작게 나타났다. 대규모 처리장의 경우 반응조 및 2차 침전지 전체 크기 결정과 함께 1개조 크기의 상한선을 설정하여 개수를 산정하였다. 최종적으로 엔지니어는 여러 가지 슬러지 농도에 대하여 반응조 및 2차 침전조의 크기, 개수 및 현장조건을 고려한 건설비용을 반복적으로 계산하게 되면, 최소비용 설계와 함께 최적의 슬러지 농도를 결정하게 된다.

This study provides a result of thermal mercury reduction for inventing a mercury recovery technology from the sludgewhich contains high concentration of mercury. Physical, chemical and thermal properties of the sludge were analyzed andmercury degradation at elevated temperatures was investigated to find out the optimum temperature range for thermalrecovery of mercury from the sludge generated from an industrial facility, which contained high concentration of mercury.The study was carried out in the temperature range of up to 650oC from 200oC, and 500~710µm particle size of wastesludge samples were selected from such industries. As primary thermal tests the sludge was heated up to observe weightdegradation at a continuous weight measurable thermogravimetric analyzer and a muffle furnace and the degradationcurves from both devices were found to be well matched. Mercury conversion to gaseous form was investigated fromthe analyzed data of mercury concentrations sampled every 25oC from a muffle furnace. Cold vapor atomic absorptionspectroscopy (CVAAS) Hg analyzer was used for the analysis of mercury content in solid and liquid samples. Most ofmercury was degraded and released as gas phase at the temperature range from 300oC to 550oC, which could be theoptimum temperature of mercury recovery by thermal method for the sludge containing high concentration of mercury.Based on these thermal mercury reduction studies, degradation kinetics study of mercury was conducted to provide thereaction kinetics data for further reactor design to recover mercury using a thermal method.

In this research, Crushed-stone sludge obtained from production processing of crushed aggregates were recycled to manufacture artificial aggregate. Compressive strength , Elastic modulus, Splitting strength, Flexural strength and freeze/thaw, Carbonation test were conducted for artificial aggregate concrete. The results showed that compressive strength and freeze/thaw and depth of carbonation resistance of concrete using crushed-stone sludge aggregate were higher than those of concrete using normal crushed stone. but elastic modulus, splitting and flexural strength were lower than those of concrete using normal crushed-stone

Incinerated sewage sludge ash (ISSA) is regarded as a valuable resource having great potential for the recycling ofphosphorus. The P content of ISSA is known as around 10% as a P. Therefore, this study was undertaken to investigatethe precipitation and separation characteristics of phosphorus from the acid-extracted solution of ISSA. The incineratedsewage sludge ash was leached by 1N sulfuric acid with solid/liquid ratio of 10 for 30min. The extracted solutioncontained about 1.1% of P and other metals, Al, Fe, Ca and Mg, with over than 1,000mg/L. Some heavy metals suchas Cu, Pb and Cr are presented as impurities as well. Most of Al and Fe in the extracted solution were precipitated withP when titrating it to pH 3.6. The precipitated form were assumed to AlPO4, FePO4·2H2O respectively, and Pb and Crwere precipitated in this stage as well. At this experiment, about 62.9% of the initial P was precipitated and removedfrom the solution. It was also find that all of the P extracted can not be recovered as a precipitate with a simple additionof NaOH, even though titrated to pH 11.6. The precipitated P also contained some impurities such as Al, Fe, and someheavy metals, which means that further researches are needed for the efficient separation and recovery of P from ISSA.

현재 우리나라의 슬러지 발생량은 지속적으로 증가하는 추세이며, 해양매립이 금지됨에 따라, 슬러지의 처리방법과 활용방안이 시급해져 새로운 방법을 모색할 필요가 있다. 이 연구에서는 하수 처리 시 발생하는 잉여슬러지의 탈수성을 증대시켜 슬러지 케이크를 감소시키기 위해 초음파를 적용하였다. 초음파를 액체에 발사하면 액중에 수축과 팽창이 교대로 일어나며 수 만개 이상의 미세한 공동이 발생된다. 이 공동이 폭발하면서 발생한 에너지를 슬러지의 입자 파괴에 이용하여 슬러지의 탈수성을 증대시키고자 하였다. 이번 연구에서 사용된 슬러지는 김포하수처리장에서 채취한 탈수 전 슬러지이며 하수슬러지 7L에 초음파 조사시간(5min, 10min, 20min, 30min, 50min, 60min)에 조사강도 154W, 308W를 가하였다. 일반적으로 초음파 조사시간이 길어질수록 CST가 증가하는 경향을 보였다. 그러나 조사한 슬러지에 응집제를 첨가시 초음파 강도와 조사시간에 따른 CST 결과 154W에서 조사시간 5분, 10분일 때 CST가 가장 낮게 측정되었다. 또한 초음파 조사시간에 따른 원심분리실험을 실시하였다. 조사시간 5min, 10min일 때를 조사하지 않은 슬러지와 실험을 실시한 결과, 초음파에 조사된 슬러지가 초기 침하되는 속도가 더 빠르며, 최종침하량도 더 빨리 도달했다. 연구결과 초음파조사시간과 초음파 강도가 탈수성에 큰 영향을 주었다. 탈수성의 직접적 효과를 보기 위하여 조사시간 5~10min, 초음파 강도 154W를 가해야한다. 이를 잉여슬러지의 탈수능 향상에 도입시 유용하게 사용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

The sludge flotation/thickening apparatus equipped a micro-bubble generating pump was used to investigate micro-bubble generating properties on operational parameters. We evaluated micro-bubble generating properties as results to be operated the apparatus by operational parameters which are pump discharge pressure, air/water ratio(A/W ratio), air flow rate, and water flow rate. Micro-bubble generating efficiencies in pumps without recycling flow and with 50% of recycling flow was found to be very efficient on optimum A/W ratio from 1.06 to 3.62% and optimum A/W ratio from 1.05 to 4.06%, respectively. In condition of 3.6% of A/W ratio, we showed that the apparatus could be generated 36,000 ppm of micro-bubble concentration to be optimum treatment efficiency in sludge thickening process.

In this study, the effect of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) pre-treatment for sewage sludge prior to anaerobic digestion wasassessed using a batch test with an objective to decrease nitrogen, dissolved sulfide and siloxane in sewage sludge. Atotal of 6 sets of experiments (Blank, 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100g H2O2/kg wet sludge) were carried out, each with duplicates.To assess the effect of different dosages of H2O2 on anaerobic digestion, the treated sewage sludge was used for biochemical methane potential (BMP) test and SCODcr concentration. Due to the H2O2 pre-treatment, solubilization of SCODcr in pretreated sludge increased by 89% compared to raw sewage sludge, whereas T-N and NH3-N concentrationdecreased. Cumulative methane yields were increased for all pretreated samples due to increased sludge solubilizationthrough H2O2 pre-treatment. In addition, dissolved siloxane concnetrations were decreased for all pretreated samples. Thus,a reduction in dissolved siloxane concenrtation can decrease the siloxane generation potential of sludge during anaerobicdigestion. However, dissolved sulfide concentration remained same. Although H2O2 dosage did not show any furtherimpact on dissolved sulfide, they have significantly decreased T-N, NH3-N and dissolve siloxane concentrations beforeanaerobic digestion.

Ocean dumping of sewage sludge has been prohibited since 2012. Therefore, various methods to recycle sewage sludgeare studied And the adsorption is used to remove mercury released to the atmosphere. Chlorine and Iodine impregnatedadsorbent is used to remove mercury in the flue gas. In our study, we studied the method to recycle sewage sludge andbrewers grain as an adsorbent to remove mercury. Thermal treating time and temperature, and mixing ratio of sewage sludgeand brewers grain are discussed for the preparation of adsorbent. According to the results, the optimal condition oftemperature, time and mixing ratio was 400oC, 45min and 7:3 of sewage sludge/brewers grain, respectively. Theimpregnation of I is needed to keep the concentration of KI above 7%. I and Cl are dispersed uniformly in prepared adsorbent.

In recent years, the demand of renewable energy fuels has been increased in worldwide because the capacity of fossil fuel would be not affordable in the near decade. As one of renewable energy fuels, the production of sewage sludge would be gradually increased by year, and it would be over than 10million tons in 2015 in Korea. Since ocean dumping was inhibited due to London Convention with being in effective at the end of 2012 in Korea, the combustion of sewage sludge has been emerged as one of alternative technologies of waste to energy. Meanwhile, it would be necessary to apply the carbon capture & storage (CCS) technology to reduce carbon dioxide originated from waste sludge incineration. During oxy-fuel combustion, a combination of oxygen typically of greater than 95% purity and recycled flue gas is used for combustion of the fuel. By recycling the flue gas, a gas consisting mainly of CO₂ and water is generated, ready for sequestration without stripping of the CO₂ from the flue gas. In this study, the pilot test was conducted by a circulating fluidized bed (CFB) combustor consisting of a riser, a cyclone, a down-comer, and a loop-seal. The CFB combustor has a riser with an inner diameter of 0.15m and a height of 6.4m. The experimental test was carried out with waste sludge in 30kwth CFB combustor operating with oxy-fuel and typical air conditions. The optimum temperature for waste sludge incineration was determined as 800℃. Oxygen with carbon dioxide as a combustion air was fed into a riser and a loop-seal in pilot test bed. The oxygen rate as a combustion air was ranged from 21% to 30% to observe the condition of waste sludge oxy-fuel combustion. The temperature and pressure profile in CFB reactor were depicted in the condition of typical air and oxy-fuel combustion. The flue-gas from typical air and oxy-fuel combustion was analyzed to observe the trend of carbon dioxide and air pollutants emission such as CO, NOx, and SOx, respectively. The production of carbon dioxide was approximately 90% in flue-gas from waste sludge incineration with oxy-fuel condition.

Waste activated sludge (WAS) and food waste (FW) are available year round at low cost and have the potential to promote synergism in anaerobic digestion (AD). The goal of this study was to clarify the synergism in co-digestion of WAS and FW. A slight amount of FW at various ratios was added to WAS as an auxiliary substrate, and anaerobic batch tests were performed under mesophilic conditions. By adding FW, total CH₄ produced was increased, where most of them were come from WAS, clearly suggesting synergism. Also, lag period was shortened and CH₄ production rate was increased by FW addition. It was hypothesized that enhanced performance was owing to the facilitated hydrolysis of WAS by FW addition, which was revealed by the increased activities of hydrolytic α-amylase and protease.

This study was performed to evaluate the removal feasibility of nitrogeneous malodor compounds using AlPO4 zeolite manufactured by total phosphorus sludge (herein after TPS), which was produced from sewage treatment plant. Adsorbents in this study were activated carbon treated by H3PO4 (herein after AC), bead (herein after B-TPS) and pellet type adsorbents (herein after P-TPS) manufactured from total phosphorus sludge which was generated from sewage treatment plant. The breakthrough time of AC for ammonia gas (herein after NH3) removal was approximately 320 min, while those of BTPS and P-TPS were 1,140 min and 820 min, respectively. For trimethylamine (herein after TMA) removal, the breakthrough time of AC was 400 min, B-TPS and P-TPS were 1,180min and 1,100 min, respectively. From the results, it judged that adsorbents produced by TPS could be used to replace AC.

This paper analyzed thermal and carbonization properties of sewage sludge in fixed bed reactor and obtained following results. The heavy metal (Pb, Ni, Mn, Cr, Cu) content of Char showed the highest level at unprocessed sewage sludge, followed by carbonized sludge at 600, 400, and 500oC. It was thought to be mainly due to the yield of char rather than the influence of temperature. Also, the migration-test results of heavy metals satisfied the landfill directive in all samples, which may be possible to use it as landfill cover materials. The concentration of dioxin by changes of pyrolysis temperature was higher in the low temperature conditions and the proportion of PCDDs was higher than that of PCDFs.

Diverse studies are being conducted on sewage sludge treatment and recycling methods, but the demand for a lowcost treatment technology is high because the sewage sludge has an 80% or higher water content and a high energy consumption cost. We want to apply the thermal hydrolysis reaction that consumes a small amount of energy. The purpose of this study is to quantify the thermal conductivity of sewage sludge according to reaction temperature for optimal design of thermal hydrolysis reactor. We quantified continuously the thermal conductivity of dewatered sludge according to the reaction temperature. As the reation temperature increased, the dewatered sludge is thermally solubilized under a high temperature and pressure by the thermal hydrolysis reaction. Therefore, the bond water in the sludge cells comes out as free water, which changes the dewatered sludge from a solid phase to slurry of a liquid phase. As a result, the thermal conductivity of the sludge was more than 2.6 times lower than that of the water at 293 K, but at 470 K and above, became 0.708 W/m·K, which is about 4% lower than that of the water.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Environment, the emission of sewage sludge is increased by 7 ~ 9% yearly. In the future, it will be increased continuously because of extension of sewage disposal plants, high class treatment for removing nitrogen and phosphorus. The objective of this study is to examine the possibility of the carbonization of the sewage sludge by pyrolysis. The pyrolysis behavior of the sewage sludge was investigated by the thermogravimetric analysis as a function of heating rate. In the pyrolysis studies measurements in weight loss was made and reported as a function of test temperature. To minimize energy consumption used for drying sewage sludge, naturally dried sludge were applied evaluate characteristics of thermal and carbonization treatment using a fixed-bed reactor. The most effective treatment temperature of carbonized material production was 400oC. The temperature of highest total yield of char and oil was 500oC. In the pyrolysis studies measurements in weight loss was made and reported as a function of test temperature. According to the result, the optimum pyrolysis temperature of sewage sludge were found to be ranged from 100oC to 600oC, respectively. About 91% of pyrolysis was completed between 100oC and 600oC. If applying the carbonization, it can be easily utilized as the replaced resource of energy(fuel) in the countries whose energy resources are insufficient, like our country.

Thermogravimetric (TG) analysis was used to investigate the effects of carbonization and solvent extraction on the combustion characteristics of sewage sludge. Initial temperature (IT) and peak temperature (PT) represent combustion characteristics in carbonized sludge (CS). The sludge extracted (ECS) from CS using solvent extraction exhibited higher IT and PT than raw sludge (RS). First, indicate that carbonization was carried out at two different temperatures, 300 and 400oC, to produce CS300 and CS400; then, compare the corresponding IT and burnout temperature (BT). All IT and PT values for ECS300 were lower than those values for RS and CS. The activation energy determined for the combustions of CS300 and ECS300 was lower than the one for the combustion of RS. The ECS300 activation energy (combustion zone of char) was determined to be 90.7 ~ 99.1 kJ/mol, lower to the range of 109.3 ~ 126.9 kJ/mol for coal.

The drying and fuel technologies for sewage sludge have been developed due to the prohibition of ocean dumping and new renewable portfolio standard. This study was performed to enhance the quality of sludge derived fuel and compare drying characteristics for thickened and digested sewage sludge at different temperature, pressure and mixing oil conditions in oil vacuum evaporation system. In addition to investigate calorific value and characteristic analysis of dried sludge. The thickened and digested sludge used in this study were taken from municipal sewage treatment plant and coagulated using polymer (C-310P) in laboratory. The drying rate was increased with temperature and degree of vacuum and it was 25 mL/kg-sludge·min at 110oC and –450 mmHg. The moisture content of dried sludge products showed very low within 1% in the range of 0.4 ~ 0.8%. The evaporation rate of thickened sludge was lower than digested sludge and the constant evaporation period was also shorter. Compared the effect of waste cooking oil and refined waste petroleum oil on drying efficiency, the waste cooking oil showed more effective than refined oil in evaporation rate and drying time. The carbon and hydrogen contents of dried sludge with refined oil were higher than waste cooking oil. The low heating value of thickened dried sludge was higher than digested dried sludge about 400 kcal/kg and both of dried sludge showed high calorific value more than 4,000 kcal/kg.