The object of this study is to feasibility assesment for co-digestion efficiency of food waste recycling wastewater(FWR) with thermal hydrolysis process dehydration cake (THP Sludge). As a result of THP pre-treatment experimental conditions to 160oC and 30 minutes, the solubility rate(conversion rate of TCOD to SCOD) of the THP sludge increased by 34%. And the bio-methane potential in the THP sludge increased by about 1.42 times from 0.230 to 0.328 m3 CH4/kg VS compared to the non-pre-treatment. The substrates of the co-digestion reactor were FWR and THP sludge at a 1:1 ratio. Whereas, only FWR was used as a substrate in the digestion reactor as a control group. The experimental conditions are 28.5 days of hydraulic retention time(HRT) and 3.5 kg VS/m3-day of organic loading rate(OLR). During the 120 days operation period, the co-digestion reactor was able to operate stably in terms of water quality and methane production, but the FWR digestion reactor deteriorated after 90 days, and methane production decreased to 0.233 m3 CH4/kg VS, which is 67% of normal condition. After 120 days of the experiment, organic loading rate(OLR) of co-digestion reactor was gradually increased to 4.5 kg VS/m3-day and operated for 80 days. Methane production during 80 days was evaluated to be good at the level of 0.349 m3 CH4/kg VS. As a result of evaluating the dehydration efficiency of the sludge before/after 150-180oC THP using a filter press, it was confirmed that the moisture content of the sludge treated before THP at 180oC was 75% and improved by 8% from 83-85% level. Therefore, it is expected that the co-digestion reactor of FWR and THP sludge will ensure stable treatment water quality and increase bio-methane production and reduction effect of dehydration sludge volume.

Livestock manure treatments have become a more serious problem because massive environmental pollutions such as green and red tides caused by non-point pollution sources from livestock manures have emerged as a serious social issue. In addition, more food wastes are being produced due to population growth and increased income level. Since the London Convention has banned the ocean dumping of wastes, some other waste treatment methods for land disposal had to be developed and applied. At the same time, researches have been conducted to develop alternative energy sources from various types of wastes. As a result, anaerobic digestion as a waste treatment method has become an attractive solution. In this study has three objectives: first, to identify the physical properties of the mixture of livestock wastewater and food waste when combining food waste treatment with the conventional livestock manure treatment based on anaerobic mesophilic digestion; second, to find the ideal ratio of waste mixture that could maximize the collection efficiency of methane (CH4) from the anaerobic digestion process; and third, to promote CH4 production by comparing the biodegradability. As a result of comparing the reactors R1, R2, and R3, each containing a mixture of food waste and livestock manure at the ratio of 5:5, 7:3, and 3:7, respectively, R2 showed the optimum treatment efficiencies for the removal of Total Solids (TS) and Volatile Solids (VS), CH4 production, and biodegradability.

국제적으로 런던협약에 의하여 2013년 이후 음폐수의 해양 투기가 금지되어 육상에서의 처리가 시급한 실정이다. 이에 따라 국내외에서 유기성 폐기물의 혐기성 소화를 통한 부피 저감과 에너지화에 대한 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 이에 대하여 독일 등 유럽국가와 중국 등이 유기성 폐기물을 이용한 혐기성 소화가 활발히 진행되어오고 있으며, 해외의 혐기성 공법으로 Dranco, Valorga, SEBAC, Schwarting 공법 등이 있다. 국내에는 이러한 공법을 기반으로 한 혐기성 소화시설이 적용되어 가동 중에 있으나 해외의 인정받은 공법 임에도 국내에 적용된 시설에서의 운전상의 미숙 문제나 유기성 폐기물 성상 차이에 의한 소화 효율의 저하 및 가동 중지 등 운전상에 문제가 발생하고 있어 국내 음폐수 특성에 맞는 공법과 운전 방법에 관한 연구가 필요하다. 이에 따라 본 연구에서는 음폐수의 처리에 대한 방안 마련을 위하여 혐기성 소화 공법 중 독일의 Schwarting 공법을 응용하였다. 기존 다공판이 설치된 내부 구조에 층 분리 효과를 더 강화하여 혐기성 소화를 촉진하고자 다공판을 추가하여 이중으로 엇갈린 다공판이 설치된 소화조를 설계하여 비교하는 실험을 진행하였다. 실험에 사용된 시료는 D시에서 발생되는 음폐수를 대상으로 하였으며, 혐기성 미생물의 식종은 D시의 혐기성 소화조의 미생물을 활용하여 독일의 Schwarting 공법이 응용된 공법의 효율성을 검토하고자 하였다.

하수처리시설의 방류수 수질기준은 계속적으로 강화되고 있으며, 이러한 기준을 충족시키기 위해 다양한 공법을 적용하려는 노력들이 증가하고 있다. 지금까지는 질소, 인 처리를 목적으로 활성슬러지 공법을 많이 적용해왔지만, 활성슬러지 공법의 경우 용존산소 및 온도 유지, 미생물의 생장에 필요한 탄소원이 부족할 경우 추가적인 메탄올 공급의 필요 등과 같은 문제점들을 가지고 있어 대안책이 필요한 상황이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 응집제 주입을 통해 유기물 뿐만 아니라 질소, 인 등을 제거하여 활성슬러지 공법을 대체할 수 있는 응집-침전 1차 처리(Chemically enhanced primary treatment, CEPT)의 최적화 과정을 진행하였으며, 추가적으로 CEPT 슬러지를 이용하여 혐기성 소화를 진행하였을 때 메탄 생성효율에는 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 확인하고자 하였다. 먼저 문헌조사를 통해 총 7개의 후보군(FeCl2, FeCl3, FeSO4, PACl, Al2(SO4)3, 키토산, glucan)을 선정하였으며, jar-test를 통해 응집제로써의 적용가능성 및 최적 주입량을 확인하였다. Jar-test의 경우 광주 제 1하수처리장으로 들어오는 하수 원수 500ml를 이용하여 진행하였으며, 급속교반(150rpm, 1분), 완속교반(40rpm, 10분), 침전(10분) 순으로 진행한 뒤 상징액을 통해 저감효과를 확인하였다. 90% 이상의 탁도 저감효과를 보인 FeCl3, PACl, Al2(SO4)3 대상으로 CEPT 슬러지를 제작하여 혐기성 소화를 진행하였다. jar-test에서는 PACl이 응집제 주입량 대비 가장 높은 탁도저감효과를 보인 반면, 혐기성 소화 공정에서는 PACl을 이용하여 제작한 CEPT 슬러지의 메탄 발생효율이 가장 낮고, FeCl3를 주입한 경우에 가장 메탄발생효율이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 PACl의 Al 성분이 미생물의 생장을 저해한 반면, FeCl3의 경우에는 Fe3+가 Fe2+로 환원되는 과정에서 유기물로부터 H+를 받아 유기물의 분해속도를 촉진시켰기 때문인 것으로 추측된다.

Since 2005 the landfilling of food waste has been prohibited, and many recycling facilities (private, domestic, animalfeed conversion, public composting) have been constructed and operated as waste-treatment centers. However, due to the negative attitude of users on the domestic animal feed and compost produced from food waste, the byproducts of waste have created a vicious cycle, needing treatment themselves. In addition, the London Convention prohibited the discharge of organic waste such as sewage sludge into the ocean in 2012 and of food-waste leachate in 2013. An alternative to landfilling and incineration is to treat biomass with anaerobic digestion. However, the anaerobic-digestion efficiency of the Daejeon City bioenergy facility, which has adopted a mixed digestion process of food waste and food waste leachate, has not been reproduced in other municipalities due to a misunderstanding of anaerobic digestion and a lack of operating skill. Thus, the anaerobic-digestion efficiency of the bioenergy facility in Deajeon is analyzed, and it provides basic information for the anaerobic co-digestion of organic wastes.

Livestock manure treatments have become a more serious problem because massive environmental pollutions such as green and red tides caused by non-point pollution sources from livestock manures have emerged as a serious social issue. In addition, more food wastes are being produced due to population growth and increased income level. Since the London Convention has banned the ocean dumping of wastes, some other waste treatment methods for land disposal had to be developed and applied. At the same time, researches have been conducted to develop alternative energy sources from various types of wastes. As a result, anaerobic digestion as a waste treatment method has become an attractive solution. In this study has three objectives: first, to identify the physical properties of the mixture of livestock wastewater and food waste when combining food waste treatment with the conventional livestock manure treatment based on anaerobic mesophilic digestion; second, to find the ideal ratio of waste mixture that could maximize the collection efficiency of methane (CH4) from the anaerobic digestion process; and third, to promote CH4 production by comparing the biodegradability. As a result of comparing the reactors R1, R2, and R3, each containing a mixture of food waste and livestock manure at the ratio of 5:5, 7:3, and 3:7, respectively, R2 showed the optimum treatment efficiencies for the removal of Total Solids (TS) and Volatile Solids (VS), CH4 production, and biodegradability.

우리나라는 4계절이 뚜렷하여 안정적인 중온소화를 진행하기에 환경적 어려움이 있다. 혐기성 소화조의 안정적인 소화를 위하여 가온 에너지는 필수적인 요소이다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 이러한 환경에 적합한 소형 혐기성 시설의 개발을 위하여 고농도 유기성 폐기물인 돈분뇨와 음식물류폐기물을 전처리 과정 없이 고액분리만을 통하여 액상의 고농도유기물만을 혐기성소화조에서 에너지원인 바이오가스를 생산하는 Pilot Plant의 성능과 소화효율을 분석하였다. 혐기성 소화조의 가온을 위하여 겉에는 호기성 소화조를 설치하여 호기 발효열을 혐기성 소화 가온 에너지로 이용 가능하도록 설계하였다. 이 호기성 소화조에서는 음식물류폐기물을 이용, 호기성 분해를 통해 퇴비를 생산하였으며, 이 과정 중 발생한 분해열(최대 75℃)을 이용, 혐기성 소화조를 가온하였다. 혐기성 소화의 성분 변화에 따른 바이오가스를 분석하기 위하여 혐기성소화조에 투입되는 유기물(VS)농도, 원료배합(돈분뇨 중 분성분이 30%, 뇨성분이 70%) 등 운전조건의 변화에 따른 유기물(VS) 제거율, CODcr 제거율, 바이오가스 생산량 및 메탄농도, 유기물용적부하에 따른 바이오가스 발생량 등을 분석 하였다. 음식물류 폐기물과 돈분뇨 혼합비에 따라 CASE 1, CASE 2, CASE 3로 분류하였으며, CASE 1의 비율은 음식물류 폐기물 8kg과 돈분뇨 20L, CASE 2 음식물류 폐기물 10kg과 돈분뇨 20L로 진행하였다. 분석결과 호기성 발효조의 평균 온도는 계절에 관계없이 50℃~70℃로 나타났으며, 호기성 발효조의 발효열이 높을수록 혐기성 소화조의 온도 또한 증가하는 경향이 나타났다. 이 결과 혐기성 소화조의 온도는 평균적으로 38℃로 중온소화가 가능한 것으로 확인되었다. 혐기 소화의 경우 투입원료의 유기물(VS)량에 따른 바이오가스 발생량은 CASE1에서 유기물(VS)은 평균 6.09%으로 분석되었으며, 이에 따른 바이오가스 발생량은 0.29~0.31㎥/day로 나타났다. CASE 2는 유기물(VS)평균 농도가 7.7%, 바이오가스 발생량이 0.325㎥/day로 나타났다. CASE1, 2 각각의 CODcr, 유기물(VS) 평균 제거율은 CASE 1이 56%, 76.61%, CASE2가 62%, 81.86%로 분석되었다. 메탄 함유량 또한 60~77%로 측정되어 연료로써의 가치가 확인되었다. 본 연구를 통하여 호기성 산화열을 혐기성 소화의 가온 에너지로서 사용하는 방식의 상용화 가능성을 확인할 수 있었으며, 현재 운영하는 혐기성 소화 시설만이 아닌 마을단위의 유기성 폐기물을 처리할 수 있는 소규모 시설로서도 운영이 가능할 것으로 보이며, 이에 따라 좀 더 효율적인 유기성 폐기물의 처리를 가능하게 할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the characteristic and efficiency of anaerobic digestion (AD) of various organic wastes, and to find a way to enhance the efficiency of AD. Ten types of organic wastes including slaughterhouse waste (SHW), agricultural by-products (AB), animal manure (AM), sewage sludge, and food waste (FW) were selected. Elementary analysis was carried out to confirm the effect of C/N ratio on AD. Elementary analysis of the AB of maize showed the highest C/N ratio of 42.55. The lowest C/N ratio of 3.41 and 3.46, respectively, appeared from the SHW of the blood from cattle and swine. The cattle rumen content of SHW had a C/N ratio of 19.2, which was included at range of optimum C/N ratio, and AM showed a low C/N ratio because of the lack of a carbon source. The AB of beets had the highest biogas yield of 0.81 m3/kgVS, which was measured by the BMP test. Biodegradability was also calculated based on the BMP test result. FW was found to have the highest biodegradability of 92.14%. However, cattle rumen contents had low biodegradability (34.02%) because their substrate material consists of fibroid, while AM had the lowest biodegradability (15.34%) because of its low C/N ratio.

In this study, the experiment was carried out to produce methane by applying Semi-Continuous Leachate Recirculation Anaerobic Digestion System fed with source separated food waste from school cafeteria. There were two systems and each system consisted of a bioreactor and a leachate tank. Each bioreactor had a screen near the bottom of the reactor. 2L of Separated leachate was collected to the leachate tank each day by using a tubing pump and the leachate from the leachate tank was pumped to the bioreactor at the upper of the bioreactor. Through this circulation, the leachate having high concentration of VFAs was supplied to the bioreactor. At the beginning of the experiment, food waste/inoculum anaerobic sludge volume ratio was 2:8 that is 9g VS/L of OLR(Organic Loading Rate). Feeding was conducted every two weeks. Initial conditions of bioreactor was 30g VS/2･week and 33g VS/2･week were fed to bioreactor A and bioreactor B, respectively. Average biogas yields of the bioreactor were 0.723m³ Biogas/kg VS added in reactor A and 0.648m³ Biogas/kg VS added in reactor B.

In this study the effects of co-digestion of sewage sludge and food waste leachate on the anaerobic digestion efficiencyfrom sewage treatment facilities in S. Korea were investigated. For this study 15 facilities were selected including 9facilities treating sewage sludge only (S-Only) and 6 facilities treating sewage sludge and food waste leachate (S-MIX).The average volatile solid (VS) removal rate of S-Only was 30.7% and that of S-MIX was 45.2%. The COD removalrate of S-MIX (61.3%) was higher than that of S-Only (48.6%). It has been observed that the anaerobic digestion efficiencyof S-MIX was superior to that of S-Only because S-MIX contained more sufficient nutrient with higher VS contents andtotal solid (TS) contents emerging from food waste leachate. Therefore food waste leachate addition in sewage sludgeanaerobic digestion would be the preferred option to treat only sewage sludge.

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.