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.

As the pollution from waste marine emissions becomes serious, the government's regulations are becoming more stringent. In addition to sewage sludge, manure sludge and waste sludge were included in the prohibition of off-shore sewage treatment and the allowable standard value of pollutants for the water quality discharged by the companies was increased. The difficulties of the enterprises due to the increase of the wastewater treatment costs are increasing. In order to solve these problems, it is necessary to reduce wastewater treatment costs and the processing burden of the consigned waste processing companies by constructing wastewater pretreatment facilities of their own waste. Therefore, it is urgent to develop low cost wastewater pretreatment or treatment facilities and technologies to meet the situation of wastewater discharge companies. In this study, a low cost system has been developed for filtering sludge in the wastewater by modifying the structure of drum screen and adopting the impact separation method. Using this system, the procedure and cost for purification and subsequent retreatment of a highly concentrated wastewater can be significantly reduced.

액상 바이오연료를 생산할 수 있는 하수슬러지는 자국의 에너지 안보와 지속가능한 생산이 가능하고 경제적인 원료로 여겨지고 있다. 열화학적 기술은 하수슬러지를 에너지화, 연료화할 수 있는 가장 효과적인 방법이다. 일반적으로 하수슬러지는 수분 함량이 80% 이상으로 높은 금속 함량과 14 ~ 20 MJ/kg의 발열량을 갖고 있다. 본 논문에서는 하수슬러지를 활용한 액상 바이오연료를 생산하는 열분해 반응, 전이에스테르화 반응, 초임계 반응 기술에 대해 살펴보고자 한다. 또한, 하수슬러지 유래 액상 바이오연료의 연료적 특성과 액상 바이오연료와 관련한 국내 법에 대해 검토하였다.

Phosphorus (P) is a limited, essential, and irreplaceable nutrient for the biological activity of all the living organisms. Sewage sludge ash (SSA) is one of the most important secondary P resources due to its high P content. The SSA has been intensively investigated to recover P by wet chemicals (acid or alkali). Even though H2SO4 was mainly used to extract P because of its low cost and accessibility, the formation of CaSO4 (gypsum) hinders its use. Heavy metals in the SSA also cause a significant problem in P recovery since fertilizer needs to meet government standards for human health. Therefore, P recovery process with selective heavy metal removal needs to be developed. In this paper some of the most advanced P recovery processes have been introduced and discussed their technical characteristics. The results showed that further research is needed to identify the chemical mechanisms of P transformation in the recovery process and to increase P recovery efficiency and the yields.

This study aimed to investigate the feasibility of improving dewaterability and settleability of sewage sludge using coagulation sludge. When mixed with sewage sludge and coagulation sludge at 1:1 ratio, capillary suction time(CST) and specific resistance to filtration(SRF) decreased by about 56% and 68%, respectively. It is found that total solids(TS) and volatile solids(VS) of mixing sludge are increased by about 59% and 53%, respectively. Also, the turbidity of the mixing sludge supernatant was reduced from 99 to 16 NTU. It is observed that the mixing of sewage sludge and coagulation sludge at 1:1 showed better effect than using poly-aluminum chloride(PAC) coagulant at 25 mg/L.

반 건조 소화 하수슬러지와 폐플라스틱을 혼합하여 파일롯 규모(85.3kg/hr)의 연속식 저온 (510℃~530℃) 열분해 실험을 하였다. 실험결과 열분해가스 발생량은 투입물 건량의 최대 68.3%, 발열 량은 40.9 MJ/Nm3 이었으며, 연속식 열분해에 따른 외기 유입율이 19.6%이었다. 오일은 투입물 건량 의 4.2%가 발생하였고, 저위발열량은 32.5 MJ/kg 이었으며 시설부식 등을 일으킬 수 있는 황과 염소의 함량이 각각 0.2% 이상이었다. 투입물 건량의 27.5%가 발생한 탄화물의 저위 발열량은 10.2 MJ/kg 이 었고, 용출시험 결과 지정폐기물에 해당하지 않았다. 열분해가스의 연소 배가스는 일산화탄소, 황산화물, 시안화수소 등의 배출농도가 특히 높았고, 다이옥신 (PCDDs/DFs)은 0.034 ng-TEQ/Sm3 로서 법적 기 준치 이내였다. 건조 배가스 응축으로 발생한 폐수는 수질오염물질 47개 항목 중 총질소, n-H 추출물질, 시안 등의 고농도 항목이 많아 전처리 후 하수처리장 등에서의 병합처리 방식을 고려할 필요가 있었다.

Phosphorus is an essential and irreplaceable element for all living organisms and its resource is limited. Significant amount of used phosphorus is collected in sewage treatment plant as sludge. Sludge ash after incineration contains about 10% of phosphorus in dry mass basis, which is comparable to phosphate rocks, and it is an important source of phosphorus recovery. Acid and alkali were used to leach phosphorus from sludge ash and compared for their leaching kinetics and performance. Phosphorus leaching by NaOH was fast and 0.2 N and 2 N NaOH leached 49% and 56% of the total phosphorus in the sludge ash at the L/S ratio of 100. Phosphorus leaching by sulphuric acid and hydrochloric were very fast and most of the phosphorus was leached in 5 minutes. In case of sulphuric acid 95% of the total phosphorus in the sludge ash was leached by 0.2 N at the L/S ratio of 100 and 93% was leached by 1 N at the L/S ratio of 10. 1 N hydrochloric acid leached 99% of the total phosphorus at the L/S ratio of 10. The results showed acids were more effective than alkali for phosphorus leaching from sludge ash and hydrochloric acid leached more phosphorus than sulphuric acid.

The purpose of this study is to produce the auxiliary fuel additives that will improve the heat value and reduce the odor of dried sewage sludge, an auxiliary fuel for power plants using process by-products. Through an odor analysis prior to the production of auxiliary fuel additives, it was confirmed that the main odor materials are Methylmercaptan, Acetaldehyde and Trimethylamine. Based on this, we measured the heating value on various processes by-products such as by-products of thermal power generation and by-products of refinery. In addition, the adsorption performance in the major odor material was evaluated. However, for Trimethylamine, it is very difficult to secure the reproducibility of the concentration of the standard materials as the standard material is liquid. Therefore, it was used Ammonia, which has basic property, to replace Trimethyamine. In the evaluation of various process by-products, the highest heating value in heavy oil fly ash was 5,575 kcal/kg, while in the adsorption performance evaluation, FCC was shown as having the best performance in adsorption, as it could adsorb 100% of Methylmercaptan, 47% of Acetaldehyde and 76% of Ammonia. We conducted an adsorption experiment after supporting a transition metal on the FCC in order to improve the adsorption capacity. As a result, it was confirmed the best efficiency when supporting the copper nitrate 0.5% on the FCC. Based on this result, the experiment was conducted to determine the optimal mixing ratio with a high heating value and odor reducing function using Heavy oil fly ash and FCC. The optimal mixing ratio was 90% of Heavy oil fly ash and 10% of FCC. Furthermore, it was found that the most economical performance and highest odor reducing efficiency was achieved when the mixing ratio was 90% of dried sewage sludge and 10% of auxiliary fuel additives.

본 연구에서는 하수슬러지 가용화를 위한 불용성전극을 개발하여 전기화학적 특성을 확인 하였다. 이리듐을 주촉매로 사용하여 하수슬러지 가용화에 적합한 촉매를 선정하여 내구성이 우수하고 하수슬러지 전기분해에 적합한 기능성 전극 실험을 진행하였고 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 전극의 코팅 소성온도를 주 촉매인 Ir의 질량감소가 적고, 흡열반응 구간인 300℃부터 500℃까지의 범위로 선정하고 실험을 하였다. 실험결과 350℃에서 촉매의 효율성이 가장 우수하게 나왔다. 각각의 바인더 별(Ta, Sn, W) 실험에서도 350℃에서 가장 큰 촉매효율성이 나타났다. 바인더로 사용한 탄탈럼, 주석, 텅스텐 중 탄탈럼이 다른 금속보다 주 촉매의 특성을 그대로 유지시키며 전극의 효율성을 향상시키는 것을 확인하 였다. 50%IrO2 전극의 경우 1.4 V(vs. Ag/AgCl) 약 29 mA/cm2 의 전류가 발생하여 전극의 효율을 평 가하였다.

음식물류폐기물의 에너지 잠재량은 2,206 천TOE 임에도 대부분 사료화와 퇴비화로 약 85.5%가 재활용 되고 있으며, 해당 시설에서 생산된 제품 중 사료화는 72%, 퇴비화는 61%가 무상판매 되고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 음식물류폐기물을 반탄화 반응을 이용하여 연료화하고자 한다. 하지만 음식 물류폐기물만 단독으로 연료화 할 경우 연료적 가치가 낮아짐을 예방하고자 하수슬러지를 일정 비율로 혼합하여 진행하였다. 음식물류폐기물과 하수슬러지의 혼합비율은 10:0, 8:2, 6:4, 5:5로 하였다. 실험 결과 혼합 비율에 상관없이 반응온도 240℃이상에서 함수율 10% 이하로 감소하는 것을 확인 할 수 있 었다. 고정탄소의 경우 반응온도가 높아질수록, 하수슬러지의 비율이 높아질수록 증가하였으며, 초기 1.1%에서 최대 약 36% 로(혼합비율 6:4, 반응온도 270℃) 측정 되었으며, 발열량의 경우 반응온도 24 0℃부터 고형연료제품기준인 3,000Kcal/Kg 이상에 만족하는 발열량을 나타내었으며, 초기시료보다 약 6 배 정도 증가한 발열량을 얻을 수 있었다. Van krevelen Diagram이 Lignite 범위까지 이동하였으며, 슬 러지 혼합비율이 높아질수록 높은 연료비와 5,500Kcal/kg 이하의 연소성지수를 얻을 수 있었다. 하수슬 러지 혼합 비율이 높아질수록 발열량은 감소하지만, 고정탄소 함량 증가, 연료비 개선 등으로 음식물류 폐기물만 단독 고형연료화 한 것 보다 연료로써의 품질이 좋아지는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

Recently, Korea’s municipal wastewater treatment plants generated amount of wastewater sludge per day. However, ocean dumping of sewage sludge has been prohibited since 2012 by the London dumping convention and protocol and thus removal or treatment of wastewater sludge from field sites is an important issue on the ground site. The hydrothermal carbonization is one of attractive thermo-chemical method to upgrade sewage sludge to produce solid fuel with benefit method from the use of no chemical catalytic. Hydrothermal carbonization improved that the upgrading fuel properties and increased materials and energy recovery ,which is conducted at temperatures ranging from 200 to 350°C with a reaction time of 30 min. Hydrothermal carbonization increased the heating value though the increase of the carbon and fixed carbon content of solid fuel due to dehydration and decarboxylation reaction. Therefore, after the hydrothermal carbonization, the H/C and O/C ratios decreased because of the chemical conversion. Energy retention efficiency suggest that the optimum temperature of hydrothermal carbonization to produce more energy-rich solid fuel is approximately 200°C.

The need of reusing sewage sludge is highly increasing as the amount of domestic sewage sludge is growing and sewage management strategies were reinforced. Accordingly, in this research, we studied the composting possibility of sludge in sewage treatment plant J, using dryer facility with indirect system by conducting component analysis of dried sludge and experiment on cultivating crops. It was observed from the component analysis, that the dried sludge is appropriate for both decomposed manure standard of Ministry of Environment and fertilizer standard of Rural Development Administration. Besides, in the experiment on cultivating lettuce, the experimental group(soil + dried sludge) was superior to the control group(soil + bed soil) in apparent condition of leaves tensity and damage by disease and pest. In case of cultivating tomato, the experimental group showed stronger durability of fruits dangling on stems compared to the control group after 9 weeks. Consequently, the excess sludge dried by indirect heating system in the sewage treatment plant J is appropriate for the standard of both Ministry of Environment and Rural Development Administration and show good result in experiment on cultivating crops therefore it can be reused for composting.

하수 슬러지로부터 추출된 유지를 이용하여 바이오디젤 생산에 대해 고찰하였다. 바이오디젤 생산의 밝은 전망에도 불구하고, 이를 상용화하기 위한 노력은 매우 제한되어 있다. 주요 장애물 중 하나는 전체 생산비용의 약 70~75%를 구성하는 정제 유지의 공급 원료와 연관된 높은 가격이다. 따라서 이를 극복하기 위하여 폐유나 낮은 품질 유지 등의 저가 원료를 사용하여 바이오디젤의 생산 비용을 낮추는 기술이 제안되어 왔다. 이런 측면에서 하수 슬러지로부터 추출된 유지는 비교적 저렴하여 유망한 원료로 평가받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 하수 슬러지로부터 추출된 유지를 이용한 바이오디젤의 생산기술을 검토하였다. 하수 슬러지로부터 유지 추출공정 및 에스테르화 전환공정 및 무촉매 열화학 전환공정을 살펴보았다.

Ocean discharge of sewage sludge, which started in the year of 1993 in Korea, was stopped in the beginning of 2012, Landfill of sewage sludge was also prohibited in 2003 owing to public acceptance of the lanfill sites, and partially reopened in 2007 due to the necessity of organic component in sludge to produce methane gas. Sludge recycle ratio will increase in sewage sludge treatment by volume reduction and drying, and then recycle of the thermal energy as fuel in power plant and also material as raw material of cement. Several drying processes are compared with reasoning and an appropriate drying sequence is suggested.

본 연구는 최종 해양에 배출되는 하수슬러지에 함유된 오염물질의 농도와 분포특성을 파악하고자 하였다. 연구에 사용된 시료는 하수 슬러지 발생업체의 최종 저장조에서 20점을 채취하였고 시료의 조제를 비롯하여 최종 기기분석까지 해양환경공정시험기준을 적용하였으며, 다 환방향족탄화수소류(PAHs)는 U.S EPA 기준에 맞춰 16종을 분석하였다. 분석결과 중금속인 비소는 최대 15.29 ㎍/g, 카드뮴 2.04 ㎍/g, 크롬 632.98 ㎍/g, 구리 2,388.28 ㎍/g, 납 77.71 ㎍/g, 아연 2,928.28 ㎍/g이었고, 폴리염화비페닐(PCBs) 7종 중 최대값은 0.80 ng/g이고 7종의 합은 ND ～ 2.50 ng/g으로 나타났다. 다환방향족탄화수소류(PAHs)의 각 항목별 최대값은 나프탈렌 1,199.5 ng/g, 아세나프틸렌 35.48 ng/g, 아세나 프텐 104.94 ng/g, 플루오렌 424.86 ng/g, 페난트렌 606.91 ng/g, 안트라센 121.96 ng/g, 플루오란텐 683.64 ng/g, 피렌 1045.70 ng/g, 벤죠(a)안트 라센 270.49 ng/g, 크리센 288.76 ng/g, 벤죠(b)플루오란텐 175.81 ng/g, 벤죠(k)플루오란텐 162.22 ng/g, 벤죠(a)피렌 185.84 ng/g, 인데노 (1,2,3-cd)피렌 136.22 ng/g, 디벤즈(a,h)안트라센 21.60 ng/g, 벤죠(g,h,i)페릴렌 320.00 ng/g으로 나타났다. 한편 분석시료 20점 중 해양배출처리 기준 제1기준을 초과한 시료는 구리 1점이었고, 생물독성시험이 필요한 제2기준을 초과한 시료는 크롬 1점, 구리 10점, 아연 2점, 나프탈렌 3점 으로 나타났다.

하수슬러지의 퇴비화를 촉진할 수 있는 방안을 검토하기 위하여 2월 및 8월에 하수슬러지를 채취하여 생균수를 측정한 결과 하수종말처리장에서의 폐수처리시 유입수량 변동, 양이온성 polyacrylamide의 사용량 및 기후 변동을 포함하는 여러 조건의 변화에 따라 미생물 종과 미생물수의 변동이 많았으며, 미소후생동물의 종류 및 활동성도 계절에 따른 차이가 있었다. 양이온성 polyacrylamide가 미생물 생육에 미치는 영향을 조사한 결과 양이온성 polyacrylamide의 농도가 0.8% 이상일 때는 모든 균주의 생육이 저해되었으나 0.2% 이하에서는 균 생육에 지장을 초래하지 않았다. 하수슬러지의 퇴비화 과정중에 관여하는 미생물의 균종과 균수를 조사하고자 하였으나 미생물의 생태적 생리적 특성과 퇴비화의 일정한 상관관계를 도출할 수는 없었다. 그러나 유기물 함량과 bulking agent로 톱밥을 투여하였을 경우 미생물의 균종과 균수의 증가가 관찰되었다. 하수종말처리장의 폭기조 투입직전 활성슬러지, 폭기조내 활성슬러지, 하수슬러지와 bulking agent로 톱밥을 혼합처리하여 관찰한 결과 Fragilaria sp., Proales sp., Vorticella sp., Schizothrix sp., Anabaena sp., Zoothaminium sp., Epstylis sp., Arcella sp., Balantidium sp., Actinophrys sp., Synedra sp., Euglypha sp., Ulothrix sp., Anacystis sp., 및 Clostium sp. 등의 다양한 미소 후생동물이 관찰되었다. 특히 전기간에 걸쳐 Fragilaria sp., Proales sp., Vorticella sp. 몇 Schizothrix sp.가 관찰되었다. 슬러지 내에 존재하는 세균, 효모, 방선균, 곰팡이, 미세조류, 원생동물 및 하등동물은 하수슬러지의 퇴비화 또는 감량화 과정 중에 존재하여 공극의 확보와 같은 물리적인 퇴비화 촉진과 생물학적 분해작용에 의한 퇴비화 촉진 효과를 얻을 수 있을 것이다.

The feasibility study of using converter slag as a solidifying agent of digested sewage sludge cake has been performed. The availability of converter slag as solidifying agent has been investigated by several trial tests. Based on the trial test results, the optimum mixing ratios of sludge cake and solidification additive are estabilished. Finally the solidification characters of sludge cake are elucidated by SEM and EDS. It is ascertained that converter slag with a small amount of quicklime enhences the solidification. From the result of pH test, overall pH of specimens tends to decrease slowly with curing time. After solidifying specimens had been cured for 7 days, these are water-cured for 24 hours. The weight and strength of all the specimens are nearly the same regardless of the mixed ratios of solidifying agent. The result of leaching tests for four heavy metal ions, Cd, $Cr^{6+}$, Pb and Cu show that the leaching strength becomes below the decision criteria of the specific wastes, respectively. The SEM observation of the delicate structure shows that needlelike crystals appear after solidification which are not observed before. From the EDS analysis, it is found that the main ingredients of needlelike crystals are Ca, Si, Al and O.

The dewatering characteristics of the sewage sludge was investigated through the experimental observations and model simulations. The activated sludge and the anaerobically digested sludge were examined for the dewaterability evaluation within the pressure range of $0{\sim}10^6N/m^2$. Modified Buchner funnel test and compression test by the consolidometer were conducted to evaluate average specific resistance, porosity, and moisture percentage of filter cake. Shirato's technique of compression-permeability test was followed for the pressure range lower than about $10^2N/m^2$. The flocculation effects on sludge dewatering was also examined for ferric chloride and polymeric flocculant. The application of hydrated lime which can be used for flue-gas desulfurization showed improved moisture percentage, and was thought to have positive feasibility in combined system of sludge dewatering and incineration. Determined characteristic constants were applied to Tiller's cake filtration model to simulate liquid pressure distribution and porosity distribution in cake. Model simulations showed a sharp drop of the porosity close to the cake-medium interface for the highly compressible material such as the activated sludge and the anaerobically digested sludge.

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.

This study investigated microbial communities and their diversity in a full-scale mesophilic anaerobic digester treating sewage sludge. Influent sewage sludge and anaerobic digester samples collected from a wastewater treatment plant in Busan were analyzed using high-throughput sequencing. It was found that the microbial community structure and diversity in the anaerobic digester could be affected by inoculation effect with influent sewage sludge. Nevertheless, distinct microbial communities were identified as the dominant microbial communities in the anaerobic digester. Twelve genera were identified as abundant bacterial communities, which included several groups of syntrophic bacteria communities, such as Candidatus Cloacimonas, Cloacimonadaceae W5, Smithella, which are (potential) syntrophic-propionate-oxidizing bacteria and Mesotoga and Thermovigra, which are (potential) syntrophic-acetate-oxidizing bacteria. Lentimicrobium, the most abundant genus in the anaerobic digester, may contribute to the decomposition of carbohydrates and the production of volatile fatty acids during the anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge. Of the methanogens identified, Methanollinea, Candidatus Methanofastidiosum, Methanospirillum, and Methanoculleus were the dominant hydrogenotrophic methanogens, and Methanosaeta was the dominant aceticlastic methanogens. The findings may be used as a reference for developing microbial indicators to evaluate the process stability and process efficiency of the anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge.