Laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of digestion temperature on the settleability and dewaterability of anaerobically digested sludge. The digesters were operated at a hydraulic retention time of 20 days with a loading rate of 0.63~0.66kg volatile solids per cubic meter per day at the temperature of $35^{\circ}C$ and $55^{\circ}C$. A mixed primary and secondary municipal sludge was used as a feed. The interface height of the sludge during settling test was recorded to identify settleability. As a measure of dewaterability of the sludge, specific resistance and capillary suction time were also measured with and without chemical conditioning. Higher digestion efficiency was obtained at $55^{\circ}C$ than $35^{\circ}C$. However, the settleability and dewaterability of the sludge at $35^{\circ}C$ were quite higher than those of the sludge digested at $55^{\circ}C$. The optimum dosages of ferric chloride for sludge conditioning were 0.4% and 0.6% at $35^{\circ}C$ and $55^{\circ}C$, respectively. The filtrate COD of the sludge digested at $55^{\circ}C$ was higher than at $35^{\circ}C$, which means that poor dewaterability of the sludge result in high filtrate COD.

In this study, solid-liquid separation conditions for coagulation and sedimentation experiments using inorganic coagulant (aluminum sulfate and Poly-Aluminum Chloride (PAC)) were optimized with brine wastewater discharged by the epoxy-resin process. When the turbidity and suspended solid (SS) concentration in raw wastewater were 74 NTU and 4.1 mg/L, respectively, their values decreased the lowest in a coagulant dosage of 135.0 - 270.0 mg Al3+/L. The epoxy resin was re-dispersed in the upper part of wastewater treated above 405.0 mg Al3+/L. The removal efficiencies of turbidity and SS via dosing with aluminum sulfate and PAC were evaluated at initial turbidity and SS of 74 - 630 NTU and 4.1 - 38.5 mg/L, respectively. They increased most in the range from 135.0 - 270.0 mg Al3+/L. The solid-liquid separation condition was quantitatively compared to the correlation of SS removal efficiency between the coagulant dosage and SS concentration based on the concentration of aluminum ions. The empirical formula,   , shows the relationship between SS removal efficiency (R) and coagulant dosage (D) at 38.5 mg/L; it produced high correlation coefficients (r2) of 0.9871 for aluminum sulfate and 0.9751 for PAC.

In this study, the internal phenomena that occur during cake filtration, expression and hindered sedimentation were calculated and experimented using the ‘unified theory on solid-liquid separation’ with new boundary conditions. The expression procedure, the variation of pressure distribution in a compressible and incompressible cake were calculated. The procedure of hindered sedimentation was calculated with the new boundary conditions from ‘unified theory on solidliquid separation’ and experiments against various concentration.

최근 미세조류를 에너지원으로 활용하는 기술이 많은 관심을 받으면서 미세조류 고액분리 기술에 대한 연구가 진행 중이다. 미세조류 분리 기술에는 미세조류의 밀도차를 이용하여 분리하는 방법인 원심 분리법, 중력･응집 침전법, 부유선별법과 막 여과법이 있다. 그 중 막 여과법은 다른 공정에 비해 거의 모든 미세조류를 여과 할 뿐만 아니라 가장 간단한 구조로 초기비용이 적게 발생한다는 장점이 있다. 그러나 고밀도의 미세조류는 막오염(fouling)을 야기한다는 단점이 있다. 막 오염(fouling)은 처리수의 투과 수량을 감소시킬 뿐만 아니라 2차 적인 수질오염을 야기시킬 수 있다. 이에 따라 온도가 높은 유입수와 상대적으로 온도가 낮은 처리수의 온도차이로부터 발생하는 증기압 차이를 사용하는 막 증발법을 이용하고자 하였다. 막 증발법은 압력을 구동력으로 사용하는 일반적인 분리막 공정에 비해 온도차를 구동력으로 사용하기 때문에 유입수 중 입자성 물질의 막 표면으로의 물리적인 이송(convection)이 없으므로 막 오염(fouling)이 상대적으로 적게 발생한다는 장점이 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 선행연구에서 도출한 공정인자를 이용하여 미세조류를 고액 분리에 따른 투과 성능 및 막 세정 효과를 분석하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 세정 주기와 세정 방법이 막 회복 및 제거율에 미치는 영향을 살펴보고자 한다.

The disposal of food waste has raised environmental concerns. The use of food waste disposers can be a convenient measure to manage household organic wastes. This device can be introduced to resolve the inconvenience of separating food wastes and implement the policy for converting food wastes into resources. However, the use of disposer has been prohibited in Korea unless the total solid recovery rate is greater than 80% (by dry wt.). Therefore, it is important to separate solid portions from disposer wastewater as much as possible to meet the standard. The objective of this study is to examine the control factors such as sieve size of screen, coagulation, RPM of centrifuge on solid-liquid separation. The result revealed that the use of sieve less than or equal to 0.3 mm could meet the total solid recovery rate of 80% (by dry wt.). Also, the coagulation filtrate recirculation using a coagulant, PAC, improved the solid recovery rate of 11.0% (by dry wt.) in using the sieve of 0.6 mm. This led to the total solid recovery rate of 79.3% (by dry wt.). Although RPM variation of centrifuge hardly influences the total solid recovery rate, when the separated solid residue is processed to compost or feedstock it is good because of low moisture content.

Purpose of this study is the design of the optimal membrane plate in filter press which is one of the devices for improving the solid-liquid separation through the mechanical dewatering of sewage sludge. We tried to improve durability of the membrane plate and efficiency of the filtrate drainage through the flow and structural analysis. Characteristics of specific pressure were also evaluated according to the shape of the membrane plate.

Recently, it is increase in the processing of organic waste using anaerobic digestion. Therefore, the studies on theprocessing method for increasing the anaerobic digestion waste water. Among them, purification treatment and liquidfertilizer have been issues. But, efficiency of the ways is very insufficient. While increasing the anaerobic digestionprocess, increasing study for the treatment of anaerobic digestion waste water. In this study, It was evaluate thecharacteristic of liquid fertilizer of anaerobic digestion waste water as affected by aeration rate and solid-liquid separation.Also, we review liquid fertilizer degree using maturity assessment indicators of liquid fertilizer by national institute ofanimal science. As a result, insertion of air(3.5L/min) sample after solid-liquid separation appeared was the highest. pHand color was difficult to understanding correlation with liquid fertilizer among maturity assessment indicators(seedgermination, ammonia(NH3), hydrogen sulfide(H2S), electrical conductivity(EC), pH, color, etc).