EVALUATION OF BIOMETHANE YIELDS FROM HIGH-ENERGY ORGANIC WASTE AND SEWAGE SLUDGE: A PILOT STUDY FOR A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2023-2034 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka A. Pilarska ◽  
Krzysztof Pilarski ◽  
Boguslawa Waliszewska ◽  
Magdalena Zborowska ◽  
Kamil Witaszek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Sewage Sludge ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Organic Waste ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
High Energy

scholarly journals Modelling the bioenergy potential of municipal wastewater treatment plants

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (11) ◽  
pp. 2613-2623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerstin Schopf ◽  
Johannes Judex ◽  
Bernhard Schmid ◽  
Thomas Kienberger
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Sewage Sludge ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
Energy Content ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Recovery Efficiency ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Self Sufficiency

Abstract A municipal wastewater treatment plant accounts for a large portion of the total energy consumption of a municipality. Besides their high energy demand, the plants also display a significant bioenergy potential. This is due to the utilisation of the energy content of digester gas and sewage sludge if there exist suitable units. To maximise the energy recovery efficiency of wastewater treatment systems (WWTS), it is important to analyse the amount of digester gas and sludge produced in different types of plants. Therefore, the present paper deals with designing a tool to answer the following research questions: Which bioenergy potentials occur in different plant types? Which mass and energy flows are related to the specific potentials? Which utilisation processes for the potentials can lead to a high energy recovery efficiency of WWTS? Preliminary analyses with the designed tool were focused on estimating the level of electric and thermal energy self-sufficiency of different plant configuration scenarios including or excluding digester gas and/or sludge utilisation units. First results based on the level of self-sufficiency and associated energy and disposal costs show that a digester gas and sewage sludge utilisation should be considered when designing future WWTS.

scholarly journals Environmental monitoring of Aichi virus and human bocavirus in samples from wastewater treatment plant, drain, and River Nile in Egypt

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed N. F. Shaheen ◽  
Sahar E. Abd El-Daim ◽  
Nehal I. Ahmed ◽  
Elmahdy M. Elmahdy
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Sewage Sludge ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
River Sediment ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Drainage Water ◽  
Aichi Virus ◽  
Human Bocavirus ◽  
River Nile ◽  
Water Drain

Abstract Wastewater plays a major role in water pollution causing transmission of several viral pathogens, including Aichi virus (AiV) and human bocavirus (HBoV), associated with gastrointestinal illness in humans. In this study, we investigated the presence of AiV and HBoV in aquatic, sludge, sediment matrices collected from Abu-Rawash wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), El-Rahawy drain, Rosetta branch of the River Nile in Egypt by conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR). AiV RNA was detected in 16.6% (2/12), 8.3% (1/12), 8.3% (1/12), 22% (16/72), 12.5% (3/24), 4% (1/24), and 0/24 (0%) of untreated raw sewage, treated sewage, sewage sludge, drainage water, drain sediment, river water, and river sediment, respectively. On the other hand, HBoV DNA was detected in 41.6% (5/12), 25% (3/12), 16.6% (2/12), 48.6% (35/72), 29% (7/24), 3/24 (12.5%), 4% (1/24) of untreated raw sewage, treated raw sewage, sewage sludge, drainage water, drain sediment, river water, and river sediment, respectively. This study provides data on the presence of these viruses in various types of water samples that are valuable to environmental risk assessment. In addition, the current study demonstrates the importance of environmental monitoring as an additional tool to investigate the epidemiology of AiV and HBoV circulating in a given community.

scholarly journals Metaproteomics of activated sludge from a wastewater treatment plant - A pilot study

PROTEOMICS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (20) ◽  
pp. 3596-3601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Püttker ◽  
Fabian Kohrs ◽  
Dirk Benndorf ◽  
Robert Heyer ◽  
Erdmann Rapp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant

VARIABILITY OF SELECTED PARAMETERS AS A RESULT OF MICROWAVE DISINTEGRATION OF SEWAGE SLUDGE

2018 ◽  
Vol 171 (51) ◽  
pp. 60-68
Author(s):  
Justyna Czajkowska ◽  
Piotr Nowak ◽  
Maciej Malarski ◽  
Katarzyna Pergół
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Sewage Sludge ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Initial Treatment ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Supernatant Liquid ◽  
Suppression Process

This article contains the results of investigations conducted at the WULS in Warsaw concerning initial treatment of sewage sludge by means of microwave disintegration. Sewage sludge were taken from the "Mokre Łąki" wastewater treatment plant in the municipality of Izabelin. Experiments were carried out on concentrated and non-concentrated sludge. Each of the sludges was disintegrated in portions of varying volumes and also at different time of microwave interactions. Significant changes in the values of the tested parameters such as COD, turbidity and temperature due to the sludge suppression process were considered. These parameters have a significant impact on the course of further processes that treated sludge and supernatant liquid can be processed. Therefore, determining the volatility of these parameters is important.

scholarly journals Analysis of sewage sludge using an experimental prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (pgnaa) set-up with an am-be source

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 1660215
Author(s):  
Z. Idiri ◽  
F. Redjem ◽  
N. Beloudah
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Sewage Sludge ◽  
Neutron Flux ◽  
Thermal Neutron ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Thermal Neutron Flux ◽  
Detection Efficiency ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Gamma Detection

An experimental PGNAA set-up using a 1 Ci Am–Be source has been developed and used for analysis of bulk sewage sludge samples issued from a wastewater treatment plant situated in an industrial area of Algiers. The sample dimensions were optimized using thermal neutron flux calculations carried out with the MCNP5 Monte Carlo Code. A methodology is then proposed to perform quantitative analysis using the absolute method. For this, average thermal neutron flux inside the sludge samples is deduced using average thermal neutron flux in reference water samples and thermal flux measurements with the aid of a 3He neutron detector. The average absolute gamma detection efficiency is determined using the prompt gammas emitted by chlorine dissolved in a water sample. The gamma detection efficiency is normalized for sludge samples using gamma attenuation factors calculated with the MCNP5 code for water and sludge. Wet and dehydrated sludge samples were analyzed. Nutritive elements (Ca, N, P, K) and heavy metals elements like Cr and Mn were determined. For some elements, the PGNAA values were compared to those obtained using Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) and Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) methods. Good agreement is observed between the different values. Heavy element concentrations are very high compared to normal values; this is related to the fact that the wastewater treatment plant is treating not only domestic but also industrial wastewater that is probably rejected by industries without removal of pollutant elements. The detection limits for almost all elements of interest are sufficiently low for the method to be well suited for such analysis.

Co-digestion of glycerine and sewage sludge to optimise green electricity production

2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (12) ◽  
pp. 2863-2867 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Maes ◽  
M. Weemaes ◽  
N. Hellinck ◽  
G. De Gueldre ◽  
B. Van De Steene
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Sewage Sludge ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Methane Production ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Crude Glycerine ◽  
Electricity Production ◽  
Green Electricity ◽  
Biogas Yield ◽  
The Difference

Sewage sludge and crude glycerine were co-digested in the mesophilic digester of Hoogstraten wastewater treatment plant. Additions of up to 1 kg of crude glycerine/(m³ reactor).(day) were done without significant operational problems. At higher dosage, severe digester foaming was observed. Methane production during co-digestion was up to 20% higher than what would be expected based on the digester input. Compared to the period before glycerine dosage, every tonne of added crude glycerine resulted in a surplus methane production of 489 Nm³. The theoretical methane production from the used crude glycerine was 341 Nm³ per tonne. The difference is explained by a higher sewage sludge degradability during co-digestion with glycerine. Glycerine dosage can remedy the lowered specific biogas yield of sewage sludge in Flanders and consequently enhance green electricity production.

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