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.

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.

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.

This study described characteristics of product gases emitted during high temperature pyrolysis of sewage sludge in the temperature range of 800 ~ 1,200oC for determining the possibility of energy recovery as one of the sewage sludge treatment methods. Char yield of each sewage sludge decreased with increasing reaction temperature until 1,000oC during pyrolysis experiment, but above 1,000oC it is nearly constant due to the total release of volatile matter contained in samples. Major gas components emitted from high temperature pyrolysis experiment of sewage sludges are CO2, H2, CO, and CH4. These major combustible gases except CO2 can be used as major energy source. Also major sulfur-containing gases known as the pollutant gas emitted during high temperature pyrolysis experiments are H2S, COS, and CS2. The principal sulfur gaseous product is H2S and concentrations of H2S and CS2 increases with increasing temperature, but in the case of COS its concentration is nearly constant with variation of temperature. So efficient treatment of sulfurcontaining gases emitted from thermal treatment of sewage sludge should be needed.

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.

The effect of sewage sludge irradiation and addition of starfish as a dewatering agent on the efficiency of composting was investigated using saw dust as a bulking agent. Results indicates that the temperature of EB sludge cake (electron beam irradiated sludge cake) and EB-SF sludge cake (electron beam irradiated sludge cake mixed with star fish powder) composting piles rose up to 62 ~ 66oC within 1 day and maintained high temperature of 52 ~ 55oC for more than 3 days, which was much higher than that of the control. The electron beam irradiation and addition of star fish accelerate the composting. The control sludge cake composting pile needed 35 days to reach the criteria of mature rate for composting, (Final C/N ratio)/(Initial C/N ratio) of 0.75, while EB-SF sludge cake composting plie required 11 days. This means that maturing compost could be highly improved by irradiating sludge cake or by adding star fish powder. The pH of the composting pile of sludge cake with addition of waste star fish powder rose 1 pH unit higher than that of the control during the entire operation, showing that the star fish has a good buffering capacity. The pH of the final matured compost was above pH 7, satisfying the standard of soil conditioner. The G.I. values of Chinese cabbage and lettuce with composts from EB sludge cake and EB-SF sludge cake composting pile ranged 88 ~ 99, satisfying a safety level (G.I. 80) in plant growth. After 60 days operation for composting 4 different types of sludge cakes, each compost was able to meet the Ministry of Agriculture's Standards of Compost.

본 연구에서는 각종 산업부산물 및 도시형 리싸이클링 재료 등의 재생자원을 안전하게 유효 이용할 수 있는 방안으로 BFS 및 SS를 활용한 저강도 콘크리트의 기초적 물성을 파악하기 위하여 플로우 및 블리딩, 일축압축강도, 환경오염평가를 중심으로 실험을 실시하였다. BFS 및 SS를 활용한 저강도 콘크리트의 경우 최소단위수량의 확보를 통한 유동성 개선 및 블리딩율 억제 또한, 현장 적용성을 고려한 일축압축강도의 확보에 있어 사용 잔골재의 차이에 상관없이 BFS 6000 이상을 30% 범위에서 혼입하는 것이 가장 유효한 것으로 나타났다. 특히, SS의 유효 활용 측면에서 BFS 8000을 30% 범위에서 혼합하여 사용하면 유동성 개선 및 블리딩율 억제, 일축압축강도의 확보는 물론 현장 적용에 있어 가장 최적의 배합조건으로 나타났다. 한편, SS를 활용한 시멘트 개량토를 대상으로 유해물질 함유량 및 용출시험을 실시한 결과 모두 환경 기준치 이하를 만족하는 것으로 나타나 주변 환경에 미치는 영향은 없는 것으로 확인되었다.

This study aimed to investigate the influence of the conditioning properties such as pH, mixing speed and reaction time on the dewaterability of sewage sludge and compare the performance with the derived conditions at the different solid concentrations. Performance parameters including time to filter test (TTF), specific resistance to filtration (SRF) and water content showed the optimum result at the pH value of 3, the rapid mixing speed of 200 rpm, and the slow reaction time of 20 min. In case of 20,000 mg/L of TS, a dosage of 1.0 g inorganic conditioner/L-sludge decreased TTF, SRF, water content of dewatered sludge cake, turbidity of the supernatant from 146 to 22 sec, 2.0 × 1014 to 0.4 × 1014 m/kg, 81.6 to 74.8% and 112 to 51 NTU, respectively.

This study aims to develop solidifying agents of sewage sludge using industrial By-Products and evaluate applicability of the solidified sewage sludge. The result of this study shows that it was possible to reduce water content of the cover materials to more than 50% in a short time as a result of the excellent hygroscopic function of inorganic binder made from industrial by-products and the granulation of sludge. The result suggests that the appropriate mixed ratio of (PSA + CPA) − (GBFS + SM1) − (SAS + SM2) is 60-25-15, and input ratio of solidifying agent is 48%, considering the applicability of the facilities, including mixing performance and availability of discharge, as well as the percentage of moisture content of the solidified sewage sludge, pH, and exothermic temperature. The solidified sewage sludge made using industrial by-products met more than the standard of unconfined compressive strength 0.5 kg/cm2 (as for cover materials 0.1 MPa) in 7 days due to ground granulated blast furnace slag, high-calcium fly ash, and SAS. As a result, valid resource recovery is possible through the land treatment of sewage sludge by inducing in-situ stabilization of heavy metals and property strengths through the reactivity of industrial by-products.

In this study, anaerobic co-digestion experiments for mixtures consisting of sewage sludge with food wastewater and livestock wastewater were conducted to assess the methane yields, the volatile solids (VS) removal rates and the dynamic kinetics. An augmented simplex centroid design (ASCD) was employed to design the mixing rate of organic wastes for the anaerobic co-digestion. Also, synergistic effects on the anaerobic co-digestion were studied using models obtained by the ASCD. As a result, synergistic effects were not observed in terms of methane yield and VS removal rate. It was just showed that there was a linear relationship between the cumulative methane yield and the mixing rate of food wastewater. The results might be attributable that the sewage sludge and the livestock wastewater had very lower C/N ratio compared with food wastewater that had a C/N ratio within a range required for a correctly operating anaerobic co-digestion. Therefore, increasing mixing rates of food wastewater increased the methane yield and VS removal rate, but there was not a synergistic effect by the anaerobic co-digestion.

T-N and T-P in the filtrate from Sludge Treatment Process (STP) was returned to water treatment processing, because T-N and T-P are returned, it makes overload in Advanced Treatment Process. Removal efficiency of T-N and T-P are compared both at using polymer as simple method and at using PFS and polymer as complex method when coagulants was injected in Thickener. In simple method, removal efficiency of T-N and T-P were 95.68% and 99.29% for each. In complex method, removal efficiency of T-N and T-P were 98.07% and 99.90% for each. From the result, removal efficiency of complex method was highly better than simple method. According to increasing of removal efficiency, returned T-N and T-P loading to water treatment process was decreased (Reduced amount of T-N is 0.2309 kg/hr and TP is 0.0145 kg/hr). Also, the amount of a polymer used has been decreased to 80% by using PFS.

1. 각 시험구에서 재배 2년째 시기별 에너지작물의 초장을 조사한 결과, 하수슬러지 고화물을 처리한 시험구에서의 에너지작물 중 거대 1호의 생육이 가장 우수하였으며 원지반토에서는 생육이 미비하였다. 2. 원지반토의 거대 1호 초장은 재배 1년차 97 cm에서 2년차 229 cm로 141% 증가하여 성장폭이 하수슬러지 고화물을 처리한 두 시험구의 거대 1호에 비해 우수하였다. 3. 각 시험구의 토양 pH는 하수슬러지 고화물을 처리한 후 2년이 경과하여도 일정하게 pH 7.2~8.4의 수준을 유지하고 있었다. 원지반토의 염농도는 하수슬러지 고화물을 처리한 두 시험구에 비해 월등히 높은 것으로 나타났으며 원지반토의 평균 염농도(0.27%)는 1년차의 염분 농도(0.31%)와 비교하여 조금 감소한 것으로 나타났다. 4. 원지반토의 평균 치환성 나트륨(Ex. Na) 함량은 8.99 cmol+kg1으로 하수슬러지 고화물 혼합구의 평균치(0.7 cmol+kg1)에 비해 약 12배 높았으며, 하수슬러지 고화물을 처리한 두 시험구에 비해 월등히 높았다. 5. 하수슬러지 고화물 처리 후 에너지작물 재배 1년차와 2년차 동일시기(5월, 11월)의 토양 유기물 함량은 1년차에 비해 2년차 증가하였음을 알 수 있었고, 특히 하수슬러지 고화물 복토구의 유기물 함량의 증가폭이 가장 우수하였다. 6. 간척지 토양에 하수슬러지 고화물 처리는 토양 무기양분의 공급, 염류의 상향이동 완충 효과, 작토층 및 근권확대로 인한 지하경의 정상적인 번식이 이루어져 원지반토에 비해 에너지작물 생육이 우수하여 하수슬러지 고화물처리는 토양복토재로써 간척지 토양의 화학성 및 물리성 개선에 효과적이었음이 확인되었다.

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. For this purpose, the waste volume can be reduced and solid fuel can be obtained from the Thermal Hydrolysis Reaction (THR) that consumes a small amount of energy. The experiment was conducted at a reaction temperature of 170-220oC and maintain for 1 hour at the final temperature. According to the Capillary Suction Time (CST) and Time to Filter (TTF) evaluation, the dewater ability was good after the temperature reached 200oC and did not significantly differ at the 200oC and higher reaction temperatures. The heating value of the dehydrated solid product was 3,800-4,200 kcal/kg, and its yield rate decreased from approximately 80% to 60% with the increase in the reaction temperature. To evaluate the efficiency of anaerobic digestion, the water quality of the liquid product was analyzed based on the reaction temperature. At the temperatures of 200oC and higher, the concentration of ammonia, which increases the pH and hinders anaerobic digestion rapidly increased. From the overall evaluation of the dehydrating efficiency, solid fuel quality, and anaerobic digestion efficiency during the thermal hydrolysis of sewage sludge, it is concluded that the optimal operating temperature is 200oC.

본 연구에서는 하수슬러지 가수분해를 통해 생성되는 아미노산의 혐기성 분해과정을 알아보기 위해 각각의 아미노산 별로 혐기성 분해를 평가하였다. 아미노산의 개별 평가를 위해, 두 종류 아미노산간의 공동대사 반응인 stickland reaction은 제한시켰고, 혐기성분해가 진행되는 동안 COD, T-N, NH4＋-N, Biogas, CH4 등의 변화를 분석했다. 본 연구에서는 아미노산의 탈아미노화에 의해 생성되는 암모니아성질소를 통해 아미노산 분해율을 판단하였고, 이를 위해 각 아미노산의 질소농도를 1,000mg/L로 고정하여 연구를 진행하였다. 그 결과, 알라닌, 시스테인, 리신, 류신, 메티오닌, 아르기닌, 글리신, 히스티딘의 항목 중 시스테인, 류신, 메티오닌은 탈아미노화가 61.55%, 54.59%, 46.61% 밖에 이루어지지 않았다. 특히 시스테인과 메티오닌의 경우, 탈아미노화에 기인된 유기물질의 혐기성분해가 전혀 이루어지지 않았다. 이 3종류 아미노산이 폐수에 높게 함유되어 stickland reaction이 완벽하게 충족되지 않는 조건이라면, 이 아미노산들은 혐기성 소화 공정의 처리효율 저하의 원인이 될 수 있다고 판단된다.